I am a beginner in GoLang. I want to maintain a MongoDB session throughout the application. I already have seen answers like binding DB session in martini framework or assigning it to a goLang structs. But i want a straight forward method.
I'm assuming you've already got the mgo
driver:
go get gopkg.in/mgo.v2
In your code you can set a global variable outside your main
function like:
var mgoSession *mgo.Session
Then either in an init
function or right in your main
function you start up your session:
session, err := mgo.Dial("mongodb://localhost")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
session.SetMode(mgo.Monotonic, true)
mgoSession = session
Then you can clone the session as needed in the different functions in your program:
session := mgoSession.Clone()
defer session.Close()
c := session.DB("databasename").C("collectionname")