Struct Context

context.go:61–97

Context is the most important part of gin. It allows us to pass variables between middleware, manage the flow, validate the JSON of a request and render a JSON response for example.

// Context is the most important part of gin. It allows us to pass variables between middleware,
// manage the flow, validate the JSON of a request and render a JSON response for example.
type Context struct {
	writermem responseWriter
	Request   *http.Request
	Writer    ResponseWriter

	Params   Params
	handlers HandlersChain
	index    int8
	fullPath string

	engine       *Engine
	params       *Params
	skippedNodes *[]skippedNode

	// This mutex protects Keys map.
	mu sync.RWMutex

	// Keys is a key/value pair exclusively for the context of each request.
	Keys map[any]any

	// Errors is a list of errors attached to all the handlers/middlewares who used this context.
	Errors errorMsgs

	// Accepted defines a list of manually accepted formats for content negotiation.
	Accepted []string

	// queryCache caches the query result from c.Request.URL.Query().
	queryCache url.Values

	// formCache caches c.Request.PostForm, which contains the parsed form data from POST, PATCH,
	// or PUT body parameters.
	formCache url.Values

	// SameSite allows a server to define a cookie attribute making it impossible for
	// the browser to send this cookie along with cross-site requests.
	sameSite http.SameSite
}

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