ephemeral

ephemeral is a lightweight library to fire an ephemeral Web server. It’s useful when you’re writing a CLI app which needs to authenticate against a remote server using a callback URI.

Usage

Ephemeral provides a small http-like API. Start by creating a server:

s := ephemeral.New()

Then declare your handler like you’d do with a classic HTTP server, except that it takes the server as its first argument:

s.HandleFunc("/", func(s *ephemeral.Server,
    w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

    w.Write([]byte("Ok bye :)\n"))

    s.Stop("foo")
})

The server exposes a Stop method which takes one argument that can be whatever you want, including nil.

Start the server:

s.Listen(":8080")

The method won’t return until the server is stopped. It returns the argument you gave to the .Stop() call as well as an error.

Install

go get github.com/bfontaine/ephemeral