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Package restlayer is an API framework heavily inspired by the excellent Python

Eve (http://python-eve.org/). It helps you create a comprehensive, customizable,

and secure REST (graph) API on top of pluggable backend storages with no boiler

plate code so can focus on your business logic.

Implemented as a net/http middleware, it plays well with other middleware like

CORS (http://github.com/rs/cors) and is net/context aware thanks to xhandler.

REST Layer is an opinionated framework. Unlike many API frameworks, you don’t

directly control the routing and you don’t have to write handlers. You just

define resources and sub-resources with a schema, the framework automatically

figures out what routes to generate behind the scene. You don’t have to take

care of the HTTP headers and response, JSON encoding, etc. either. REST layer

handles HTTP conditional requests, caching, integrity checking for you.

A powerful and extensible validation engine make sure that data comes

pre-validated to your custom storage handlers. Generic resource handlers for

MongoDB (http://github.com/rs/rest-layer-mongo), ElasticSearch

(http://github.com/rs/rest-layer-es) and other databases are also available so

you have few to no code to write to make the whole system work.

Moreover, REST Layer let you create a graph API by linking resources between

them. Thanks to its advanced field selection syntax (and coming support of

GraphQL), you can gather resources and their dependencies in a single request,

saving you from costly network roundtrips.

REST Layer is composed of several sub-packages:

- rest: Holds the `net/http` handler responsible for the implementation of the

RESTful API.

- graphql: Holds a `net/http` handler to expose the API using the GraphQL

protocol.

- schema: Provides a validation framework for the API resources.

- resource: Defines resources, manages the resource graph and manages the

interface with resource storage handler.

See https://github.com/rs/rest-layer/blob/master/README.md for full REST Layer

documentation.

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package restlayer