A library book inventrory management API built in Golang and Gin

Meant to demonstrate the use of the Gin framework with DB access using the GIN ORM GORM

• Features
  • View all books
  • Fetch a book by its ID
  • Create a book
  • Checkout a book
  • Return a book
  • Good error handling for cases where a book is not found, or a book is no longer available (all checked out), or when no further returns are needed, because, all checked out books on a particular ID have been returned.

Demonstrates the power of GORM

• How to work with models
  • How to use controllers as request handlers
  • Handling and responding to requests based on various HTTP headers
  • Manage environmental variables using the godotenv package
• DB operations in GORM
  • PostgreSQL database connection
  • Learn how to create a new record (INSERT)
  • Learn how to fetch all records
  • Learn how to fetch a singe record by its ID
  • Learn how to update a record by its ID

Info

To get your started, there is an SQL script in the 'books.sql' file which you can use to create the books table, and insert some test data in it.