package main import ( "errors" "net/http" "greenlight.craftr.fr/internal/data" "greenlight.craftr.fr/internal/validator" ) func (app *application) registerUserHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { // Create an anonymous struct to hold the expected data from the request body var input struct { Name string `json:"name"` Email string `json:"email"` Password string `json:"password"` } // Parse the request body into the anonymous struct err := app.readJSON(w, r, &input) if err != nil { app.badRequestResponse(w, r, err) return } // Copy the data from the request body into a new User struct. Notice also that we set the Activated field to false, which isn't strictly necessary because the Activated field will have the zero-value of false by default. But setting this explicitly helps to male our intentions clear to anyone reading the code. user := &data.User{ Name: input.Name, Email: input.Email, Activated: false, } // Use the Password.Set() method to generate and store the hashed and plaintext passwords err = user.Password.Set(input.Password) if err != nil { app.serverErrorResponse(w, r, err) return } v := validator.New() // Validate the user struct and return the error messages to the client if any of the checks fail if data.ValidateUser(v, user); !v.Valid() { app.failedValidationResponse(w, r, v.Errors) return } // Insert the user data into the database err = app.models.Users.Insert(user) if err != nil { switch { // If we get a ErrDuplicateEmail error, use the v.AddError() method to manually add a message to the validator instance, and then cal our failedValidationResponse() helper case errors.Is(err, data.ErrDuplicateEmail): v.AddError("email", "a user with this email address already exists") app.failedValidationResponse(w, r, v.Errors) default: app.serverErrorResponse(w, r, err) } return } // Use the background helper to execute an anonymous function that send the welcome email app.background(func() { // Call the Send() method on our Mail, passing in the user's email address, name of the template file, and the User struct containing the new user's data. err = app.mailer.Send(user.Email, "user_welcome.tmpl", user) if err != nil { // Importantly, if there is an error sending the email, then we use the app.logger.Error() helper to manage it, instead of the app.serverErrorResponse() helper like before. app.logger.Error(err.Error()) } }) // Not that we also change this to send the client a 202 Accepted status code. This status code indicates that the request has been accepted for processing, but the processing has not been completed. err = app.writeJSON(w, http.StatusAccepted, envelope{"user": user}, nil) if err != nil { app.serverErrorResponse(w, r, err) } }