Not handling GET in net/http golang - http

Question

I am trying to turn off handling GET requests in golang.
I just want to handle POST.
Is it possible to do?
Reason for doing so is that i can see more and more memory being allocated by golang whenever i go to localhost:8080 and refresh page multiple times.
Here is my test code:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"encoding/json"
)
type test_struct struct {
Test string
}
var t test_struct
func handlePOST(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
switch req.Method {
case "POST":
decoder := json.NewDecoder(req.Body)
decoder.Decode(&t)
defer req.Body.Close()
fmt.Println(t.Test)
}
}
func main() {
http.HandleFunc("/", handlePOST)
http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}

Answer 1

You cannot not handle GET requests, Go's HTTP server (or rather its http.ServeMux) only allows you to specify a path pattern before dispatching the request to your handler. HTTP method related routing can only happen at the handler level.
Note that some external mux libraries allow you to register handlers to specific HTTP methods only, but the decision and routing based on that also happens in "hidden" handlers of those libraries.
What you're doing is the best: simply do nothing in the handler if the HTTP method is not the one you intend to handle, or even better: send back a http.StatusMethodNotAllowed error response:
func myHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if r.Method != http.MethodPost {
http.Error(w, "Only POST is allowed", http.StatusMethodNotAllowed)
return
}
var t test_struct // Use local var not global, else it's a data race
decoder := json.NewDecoder(r.Body)
if err := decoder.Decode(&t); err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error decoding:", err)
}
fmt.Println(t.Test)
}