The Gin framework is probably the most popular Go framework for creating RESTful APIs. It lets you create a web app in a matter of minutes.

When it comes to RESTful APIs, HTTP methods and status codes become very important. It’s a best practice to divide your APIs’ functionalities with different HTTP methods. For example, the method POST is used when want to add something to the database while the verb PUT is used for updating an entity.

By some conventions, some developers prefer to use custom verbs like LIST, ASSIGN, LOGIN, and etc. as well. For instance, if a list of all categories need to be retrieved, instead of using the GET method, LIST can be used. Gin supports the most common HTTP methods by default. These methods are GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, PATCH, and OPTIONS.

Here is an example of a very simple web API using Gin:

package main

import (
 "net/http"

 "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)

func main() {
 router := gin.Default()
 router.GET("/hello", sayHello)
 router.Run(":3000")
}

func sayHello(c *gin.Context) {
 c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{
  "message": "Hello!!",
 })
}

But what if you want to use some custom HTTP methods? In this case Gin provides a some lower level method called Handle. Please take a look at the following example:

package main

import (
 "net/http"

 "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)

func main() {
 router := gin.Default()
 router.GET("/hello", sayHello)
 router.Handle("LIST", "/get", getList)
 router.Run(":3000")
}

func sayHello(c *gin.Context) {
 c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{
  "message": "Hello!!",
 })
}

func getList(c *gin.Context) {
 // Gets the list of all categories
}

As you can see in the above example, instead of using the built-in methods, you can use the Handle method to use custom HTTP verbs. the Handle method takes three arguments instead of two, and the first argument is the method name in string. Using this you can have whatever method you prefer.

Hope it helps.