Introduce middleware for parsing ID from URI

api/middleware.go

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+package api
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+)
+
+type idInURI struct {
+	ID uint `uri:"id" binding:"required"`
+}
+
+// RequireIDInURI returns a Gin middleware which requires an ID to be supplied in the URI of the request.
+func RequireIDInURI() gin.HandlerFunc {
+	return func(ctx *gin.Context) {
+		var requestModel idInURI
+
+		if err := ctx.BindUri(&requestModel); err != nil {
+			return
+		}
+
+		ctx.Set("id", requestModel.ID)
+	}
+}
+
+func getID(ctx *gin.Context) (uint, error) {
+	id, ok := ctx.MustGet("user").(uint)
+	if !ok {
+		err := errors.New("an error occured while retrieving ID from context")
+		ctx.AbortWithError(http.StatusInternalServerError, err)
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	return id, nil
+}