Creating your first HTTP DELETE method

Whenever we want to remove a record that is no longer required then we go with the HTTP DELETE method implementation, which we will cover in this recipe.

How to do it…

1. Install the github.com/gorilla/mux package, using the go get command, as follows:

$ go get github.com/gorilla/mux

2. Create http-rest-delete.go where we will define a route that supports the HTTP DELETE method and a handler that deletes the employee details for the provided ID from the static array of employees, marshals the array to JSON, and writes it to an HTTP response stream, as follows:

package main
import 
(
  "encoding/json"
  "log"
  "net/http"
  "github.com/gorilla/mux"
)
const 
(
  CONN_HOST = "localhost"
  CONN_PORT = "8080"
)
type Route struct 
{
  Name string
  Method string
  Pattern string
  HandlerFunc http.HandlerFunc
}
type Routes []Route
var routes = Routes
{
  Route
  {
    "getEmployees",
    "GET",
    "/employees",
    getEmployees,
  },
  Route
  {
    "addEmployee",...