gen

The gen tool produces a CRUD (Create, read, update and delete) REST API project template from a given database. The gen tool will connect to the db connection string analyze the database and generate the code based on the flags provided. By reading details from the database about the column structure, gen generates a go-compatible struct type with the required column names, data types, and annotations. It supports gorm tags and implements some usable methods. Generated data types include support for nullable columns sql.NullX types or guregu null.X types and the expected basic built-in go types. gen is based / inspired by the work of Seth Shelnutt's db2struct, and Db2Struct is based/inspired by the work of ChimeraCoder's gojson package gojson. Code generation for a complete CRUD rest project is possible with DAO crud functions, http handlers, makefile, sample server are available.