Interacting with microservices using a command-line interface and web UI
So far, we have used the command line to execute GET and POST HTTP requests to access services. This can also be achieved by way of the Go Micro web user interface as well. All we need to do is start micro web, which we will be covering in this recipe.
How to do it…
- Install the
go get github.com/micro/micropackage using thego getcommand, as follows:
$ go get github.com/micro/micro- Run the web UI with the following command:
$ micro webHow it works…
Once a command has executed successfully, browsing to http://localhost:8082/registry will list all the registered services as shown in the following screenshot:
Querying our greeter service using the web UI with the request {"name" : "Arpit Aggarwal"} will render you the response, {"msg": "Hello Arpit Aggarwal"} :
Querying the same greeter service using a CLI command, query go.micro.service.greeter Say.Hello {"name" : "Arpit Aggarwal"} will render you the response, {"msg": "Hello...
