package httputil import ( "bytes" "encoding/gob" "encoding/json" "errors" ) // Client-side fetch helpers — the counterparts to RespondGob / RespondJSON. In a // gowasm app the server and the WebAssembly client share the same Go types, so // the server encodes with RespondGob(data) and the client decodes straight back // into that type with FetchGob — no JSON, no hand-written unmarshalling. These // are neutral (they only touch encoding/*), so app code can call them while // staying SSR-able; the actual HTTP transport is client-only and injected at // startup by the wasm runtime (SetClientTransport), the inversion vdom.Schedule // uses. // clientTransport does an HTTP GET returning the raw body; nil on the server. var clientTransport func(url string) ([]byte, error) // SetClientTransport installs the HTTP GET used by FetchGob / FetchJSON. The // wasm client runtime calls this at startup with wasmruntime.FetchBytes. func SetClientTransport(get func(url string) ([]byte, error)) { clientTransport = get } func fetchInto[T any](url string, cb func(T, error), decode func([]byte, *T) error) { go func() { var out T if clientTransport == nil { cb(out, errors.New("httputil: no client transport installed (client-only)")) return } body, err := clientTransport(url) if err != nil { cb(out, err) return } if err := decode(body, &out); err != nil { cb(out, err) return } cb(out, nil) }() } // FetchGob GETs url and gob-decodes the body into T (pair with RespondGob), then // calls cb(result, err) on a background goroutine — safe to call from a render // or event handler; set the result into a signal in the callback. T is inferred // from the callback: // // httputil.FetchGob("/api/quotes", func(qs []Quote, err error) { // if err != nil { /* … */ } else { quotes.Set(qs) } // }) func FetchGob[T any](url string, cb func(T, error)) { fetchInto(url, cb, func(b []byte, out *T) error { return gob.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(b)).Decode(out) }) } // FetchJSON GETs url and json-decodes the body into T — for third-party JSON // APIs (or your own RespondJSON). Same callback/goroutine shape as FetchGob. func FetchJSON[T any](url string, cb func(T, error)) { fetchInto(url, cb, func(b []byte, out *T) error { return json.Unmarshal(b, out) }) }