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| -rw-r--r-- | vendor/github.com/gorilla/context/README.md | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | vendor/github.com/gorilla/context/doc.go | 6 |
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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/gorilla/context/README.md b/vendor/github.com/gorilla/context/README.md index c60a31b..08f8669 100644 --- a/vendor/github.com/gorilla/context/README.md +++ b/vendor/github.com/gorilla/context/README.md @@ -4,4 +4,7 @@ context gorilla/context is a general purpose registry for global request variables. +> Note: gorilla/context, having been born well before `context.Context` existed, does not play well +> with the shallow copying of the request that [`http.Request.WithContext`](https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Request.WithContext) (added to net/http Go 1.7 onwards) performs. You should either use *just* gorilla/context, or moving forward, the new `http.Request.Context()`. + Read the full documentation here: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/context diff --git a/vendor/github.com/gorilla/context/doc.go b/vendor/github.com/gorilla/context/doc.go index 73c7400..448d1bf 100644 --- a/vendor/github.com/gorilla/context/doc.go +++ b/vendor/github.com/gorilla/context/doc.go @@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ /* Package context stores values shared during a request lifetime. +Note: gorilla/context, having been born well before `context.Context` existed, +does not play well > with the shallow copying of the request that +[`http.Request.WithContext`](https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Request.WithContext) +(added to net/http Go 1.7 onwards) performs. You should either use *just* +gorilla/context, or moving forward, the new `http.Request.Context()`. + For example, a router can set variables extracted from the URL and later application handlers can access those values, or it can be used to store sessions values to be saved at the end of a request. There are several |