URL Shortener

Details

An http.Handler looks at the path of any incoming web request and determine if it should redirect the user to a new page.

For instance, if we have a redirect setup for /dogs to https://www.somesite.com/a-story-about-dogs we would look for any incoming web requests with the path /dogs and redirect them.

The MapHandler function uses a predefined map to map the path to the corresponding URL.

The YAMLHandler and JSONHandler functions take a file (-file <filename>) and parses the file for the url paths ans corresponding URLs to redirect users as appropriate. The file parsed depends on the extension of the provided file *.ext.

The DBHandler function checks the database for the provided paths and redirects as appropriate. Set the flag -newdb true to initialize a new database.

Usage

go run main/main.go -newdb true