Backend can now send and receive posts

main.go

@@ -2,37 +2,68 @@ package main
 
 import (
     "net/http"
-    "fmt"
+    //"fmt"
     "encoding/json"
+    "database/sql"
+    "time"
+    _ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
     "log"
 )
 
 var messages []*string
+var db *sql.DB
 
 func main() {
+    dbo, err := sql.Open("sqlite3", "content")
+    if err != nil {
+        log.Fatal("couldn’t open database. exiting...")
+        return
+    } else {
+        db = dbo
+    }
     //listener, err = net.Listen("socket", "/tmp/
     http.HandleFunc("/", get)
     http.HandleFunc("/add", post)
     log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":12345", nil))
 }
 
+func writeToDB(post BlogPost) {
+    stmt, _ := db.Prepare("INSERT INTO blogposts(author, title, content, date) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)")
+    stmt.Exec(post.Author, post.Title, post.Content, time.Now().Format("2006-01-02"))
+}
+
 type BlogPost struct {
-    Message string `"message"`
+    Content string `"content"`
     Title string `"title"`
+    Author string `"author"`
     Secret string `"secret"`
 }
 
 func get(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
     w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
-    w.Write([]byte("response:"))
-    for _, m := range messages {
-        w.Write([]byte(*m))
+    w.Write([]byte("response:\n"))
+    //stmt, _ := db.Prepare("SELECT content from blogposts")
+    //res, _ := stmt.Exec()
+    res, _ := db.Query("SELECT content from blogposts")
+    for _, e := range(resultToStrings(res)) {
+        w.Write([]byte(e + "\n"))
     }
 }
 
 func post(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
     var post BlogPost
     json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&post)
-    fmt.Println(post.Message)
-    messages = append(messages, &post.Message)
+    messages = append(messages, &post.Content)
+    writeToDB(post)
+}
+
+func resultToStrings(res *sql.Rows) []string {
+    defer res.Close()
+    entries := make([]string, 0)
+    for res.Next() {
+        var e string
+        res.Scan(&e)
+        entries = append(entries, e)
+    }
+    return entries
 }

notes

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-curl localhost:12345/add -d '{"message": "a message", "Title": "title", "Secret": "asdawdwd"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -v
+curl localhost:12345/add -d '{"content": "a message", "Title": "title", "Secret": "asdawdwd", "author": "me"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -v
 
 for sqlite3
 CGO_ENABLED=1