Implementing goa Services
Once the design of the API is completed and goagen has generated the low level handlers the next step consists of implementing the actual action handlers.
goagen generates a controller interface for each resource. It also generates MountXXXController
methods all in the app package. The controller mounting methods accept an instance of an object
that implements the corresponding controller interface and take care of hooking up the low level
HTTP router with the corresponding methods.
The glue code that binds the controller object methods with the HTTP router also takes care of instantiating the action specific context objects. These objects wrap the request state and make it available through properly typed struct fields. This means that the handler code does not need to cast or otherwise “bind” the context fields.
The controller methods can also log and send the response using the context methods. The service implementation may also define middleware and mount them service-wide or on specific controllers.