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Microservices with Go

You're reading from   Microservices with Go The expert's guide to building secure, scalable, and reliable microservices with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836207337
Length 428 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Alexander Shuiskov Alexander Shuiskov
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction
2. Introduction to Microservices FREE CHAPTER 3. Foundation
4. Scaffolding a Go Microservice 5. Service Discovery 6. Serialization 7. Synchronous Communication 8. Asynchronous Communication 9. Storing Service Data 10. Setting Up Service Deployments 11. Unit and Integration Testing 12. Security and Compliance 13. Maintenance
14. Reliability Overview 15. Collecting Service Telemetry Data 16. Setting Up Service Alerting 17. Performance Monitoring 18. Advanced Topics
19. Implementing Distributed System Scenarios 20. Advanced Topics 21. Other Books You May Enjoy
22. Index

Unit tests

We have covered many useful features for automated testing of Go applications and are now ready to illustrate how to use them in our microservice code. First, we are going to start with unit tests – tests of individual units of code, such as structures and individual functions.

Let’s walk through the process of implementing unit tests for our code using the metadata service controller as an example. Currently, our controller file looks like this:

package metadata
import (
    "context"
    "movieexample.com/metadata/pkg/model"
)
type metadataRepository interface {
    Get(ctx context.Context, id string) (*model.Metadata, error)
}
// Controller defines a metadata service controller.
type Controller struct {
    repo metadataRepository
}
// New creates a metadata service controller.
func New(repo metadataRepository) *Controller {
    return &Controller{repo}
}
// Get returns movie metadata by id.
func (c *Controller) Get(ctx context...
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