Golang/gin: How to Pass db to router functions

Question

I'm using gin framework. And I'm opening the sqlite database in the main function like this

func main() {
...
db, err := sql.Open("sqlite3", "./libreread.db")
CheckError(err)
defer db.Close()
...
}

And I have these router handlers in the main function.

...
r.GET("/", GetHomePage)
r.GET("/signin", GetSignIn)
r.POST("/signin", PostSignIn)
...

How to pass that db value through the router handler func PostSignin(c *gin.Context) ?

So that I could avoid opening and closing the database each time in the functions.

UPDATE: I'm using go-sqlite3 package.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Let's say you have your sql client initialized in db, then, you can pass it to different routes with

r.GET("/", GetHomePageHandler(&db))

And in your GetHomePageHandler:

func GetHomePageHandler(sqldb *SQLiteConn) func (*gin.Context) {
    return  func (*gin.Context) {
      . . .
    }
}

Where *SQLiteConn is the type of your sql db instance. I don't know which package you are currently using so this is just an example.

You can find also a more elegant way of solving it in this answer,