Go 1.22 brings two enhancements to the net/http package’s router: method matching and wildcards. These features let you express common routes as

Routing Enhancements for Go 1.22 - The Go Programming Language

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2024-02-13 14:00:07

Go 1.22 brings two enhancements to the net/http package’s router: method matching and wildcards. These features let you express common routes as patterns instead of Go code. Although they are simple to explain and use, it was a challenge to come up with the right rules for selecting the winning pattern when several match a request.

We made these changes as part of our continuing effort to make Go a great language for building production systems. We studied many third-party web frameworks, extracted what we felt were the most used features, and integrated them into net/http. Then we validated our choices and improved our design by collaborating with the community in a GitHub discussion and a proposal issue. Adding these features to the standard library means one fewer dependency for many projects. But third-party web frameworks remain a fine choice for current users or programs with advanced routing needs.

The new routing features almost exclusively affect the pattern string passed to the two net/http.ServeMux methods Handle and HandleFunc, and the corresponding top-level functions http.Handle and http.HandleFunc. The only API changes are two new methods on net/http.Request for working with wildcard matches.