matterbridge/vendor/github.com/labstack/echo/v4/README.md

<a href="https://echo.labstack.com"><img height="80" src="https://cdn.labstack.com/images/echo-logo.svg"></a>

[![Sourcegraph](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/labstack/echo/-/badge.svg?style=flat-square)](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/labstack/echo?badge)
[![GoDoc](http://img.shields.io/badge/go-documentation-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/labstack/echo/v4)
[![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/labstack/echo?style=flat-square)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/labstack/echo)
[![Build Status](http://img.shields.io/travis/labstack/echo.svg?style=flat-square)](https://travis-ci.org/labstack/echo)
[![Codecov](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/labstack/echo.svg?style=flat-square)](https://codecov.io/gh/labstack/echo)
[![Forum](https://img.shields.io/badge/community-forum-00afd1.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/labstack/echo/discussions)
[![Twitter](https://img.shields.io/badge/twitter-@labstack-55acee.svg?style=flat-square)](https://twitter.com/labstack)
[![License](http://img.shields.io/badge/license-mit-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/labstack/echo/master/LICENSE)

## Supported Go versions

Latest version of Echo supports last four Go major [releases](https://go.dev/doc/devel/release) and might work with
older versions.

As of version 4.0.0, Echo is available as a [Go module](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules).
Therefore a Go version capable of understanding /vN suffixed imports is required:

Any of these versions will allow you to import Echo as `github.com/labstack/echo/v4` which is the recommended
way of using Echo going forward.

For older versions, please use the latest v3 tag.

## Feature Overview

- Optimized HTTP router which smartly prioritize routes
- Build robust and scalable RESTful APIs
- Group APIs
- Extensible middleware framework
- Define middleware at root, group or route level
- Data binding for JSON, XML and form payload
- Handy functions to send variety of HTTP responses
- Centralized HTTP error handling
- Template rendering with any template engine
- Define your format for the logger
- Highly customizable
- Automatic TLS via Let’s Encrypt
- HTTP/2 support

## Benchmarks

Date: 2020/11/11<br>
Source: https://github.com/vishr/web-framework-benchmark<br>
Lower is better!

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/qwPNQbl.png">
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/s8yKQjx.png">

The benchmarks above were run on an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz

## [Guide](https://echo.labstack.com/guide)

### Installation

```sh
// go get github.com/labstack/echo/{version}
go get github.com/labstack/echo/v4
```

### Example

```go
package main

import (
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v4/middleware"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
  // Echo instance
  e := echo.New()

  // Middleware
  e.Use(middleware.Logger())
  e.Use(middleware.Recover())

  // Routes
  e.GET("/", hello)

  // Start server
  e.Logger.Fatal(e.Start(":1323"))
}

// Handler
func hello(c echo.Context) error {
  return c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!")
}
```

# Official middleware repositories

Following list of middleware is maintained by Echo team.

| Repository                                                                   | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [github.com/labstack/echo-jwt](https://github.com/labstack/echo-jwt)         | [JWT](https://github.com/golang-jwt/jwt) middleware                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 
| [github.com/labstack/echo-contrib](https://github.com/labstack/echo-contrib) | [casbin](https://github.com/casbin/casbin), [gorilla/sessions](https://github.com/gorilla/sessions), [jaegertracing](https://github.com/uber/jaeger-client-go), [prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/), [pprof](https://pkg.go.dev/net/http/pprof), [zipkin](https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin-go) middlewares | 

# Third-party middleware repositories

Be careful when adding 3rd party middleware. Echo teams does not have time or manpower to guarantee safety and quality
of middlewares in this list.

| Repository                                                                                           | Description                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [deepmap/oapi-codegen](https://github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen)                                      | Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with [OpenAPI](https://swagger.io/specification/) Client and Server Code Generator                                                                      |
| [github.com/swaggo/echo-swagger](https://github.com/swaggo/echo-swagger)                             | Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with [Swagger](https://swagger.io/) 2.0.                                                                                                                |
| [github.com/ziflex/lecho](https://github.com/ziflex/lecho)                                           | [Zerolog](https://github.com/rs/zerolog) logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface.                                                                                                              |
| [github.com/brpaz/echozap](https://github.com/brpaz/echozap)                                         | Uber´s [Zap](https://github.com/uber-go/zap) logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface.                                                                                                          |
| [github.com/darkweak/souin/plugins/echo](https://github.com/darkweak/souin/tree/master/plugins/echo) | HTTP cache system based on [Souin](https://github.com/darkweak/souin) to automatically get your endpoints cached. It supports some distributed and non-distributed storage systems depending your needs. |
| [github.com/mikestefanello/pagoda](https://github.com/mikestefanello/pagoda)                         | Rapid, easy full-stack web development starter kit built with Echo.                                                                                                                                      |
| [github.com/go-woo/protoc-gen-echo](https://github.com/go-woo/protoc-gen-echo)                       | ProtoBuf generate Echo server side code                                                                                                                                                                  |

Please send a PR to add your own library here.

## Help

- [Forum](https://github.com/labstack/echo/discussions)

## Contribute

**Use issues for everything**

- For a small change, just send a PR.
- For bigger changes open an issue for discussion before sending a PR.
- PR should have:
  - Test case
  - Documentation
  - Example (If it makes sense)
- You can also contribute by:
  - Reporting issues
  - Suggesting new features or enhancements
  - Improve/fix documentation

## Credits

- [Vishal Rana](https://github.com/vishr) (Author)
- [Nitin Rana](https://github.com/nr17) (Consultant)
- [Roland Lammel](https://github.com/lammel) (Maintainer)
- [Martti T.](https://github.com/aldas) (Maintainer)
- [Pablo Andres Fuente](https://github.com/pafuent) (Maintainer)
- [Contributors](https://github.com/labstack/echo/graphs/contributors)

## License

[MIT](https://github.com/labstack/echo/blob/master/LICENSE)