Month: August 2016

Implementing a Sandboxed Go Environment

Google’s “Native Client” (NaCl) is used to produce a restricted execution environment. It’s used in Google Chrome (to run C/C++ apps) and Google Playground (to run Go code safely):

Native Client

Note that this project is not to be confused with the Sodium (NaCL) cryptopgraphic library (project Go package).

Implementing Sessions Under AppEngine With Go

A simple and intuitive package named cascadestore provided by the go-appengine-sessioncascade project to implement and combine Memcache, Datastore, the request context, or any combination of them, as session backends under AppEngine.

Example:

package handlers

import (
    "net/http"

    "google.golang.org/appengine"
    "google.golang.org/appengine/log"

    "github.com/dsoprea/goappenginesessioncascade"
)

const (
    sessionName = "MainSession"
)

var (
    sessionSecret = []byte("SessionSecret")
    sessionStore  = cascadestore.NewCascadeStore(cascadestore.DistributedBackends, sessionSecret)
)

func HandleRequest(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    ctx := appengine.NewContext(r)

    if session, err := sessionStore.Get(r, sessionName); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    } else {
        if vRaw, found := session.Values["ExistingKey"]; found == false {
            log.Debugf(ctx, "Existing value not found.")
        } else {
            v := vRaw.(string)
            log.Debugf(ctx, "Existing value: [%s]", v)
        }

        session.Values["NewKey"] = "NewValue"
        if err := session.Save(r, w); err != nil {
         panic(err)
        }
    }
}