What are the characteristics of the context in the Go language?

The characteristics of the Go language’s context are as follows:

  1. Can be used to pass data across multiple goroutines, such as user authentication information and request deadlines.
  2. You can use it to control the life cycle of goroutines, and you can cancel the execution of a goroutine using context.
  3. You can create a context with custom values to pass data between goroutines.
  4. Context can be passed to multiple goroutines, creating a tree-like structure of goroutines, allowing for monitoring and management of the entire request handling process.
  5. Context is thread-safe, allowing it to be used simultaneously between multiple goroutines without the need for additional locks.
  6. The context can store and retrieve data using the WithValue method, which provides methods like Get, Set, and Delete to manipulate the values in the context.
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