Day: October 8, 2013

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Handling Form Data In Go

Here’s how to retrieve the value of a form element named comment ( r represents http.Request ):

comment := r.FormValue("comment")

Suppose the form value is an integer. Here’s how to extract the value from the request and convert it from a string to an integer (if an error occurs when converting, the value -1 is stored):

index, err := strconv.Atoi(r.FormValue("index"))    
if err != nil {
    index = -1
}

If needed, the submitted form value can be written to logging by calling:

c := appengine.NewContext(r)
c.Infof("Submitted Value: %v", index)