What are the characteristics of the context in the Go language?
The characteristics of the Go language’s context are as follows:
- Can be used to pass data across multiple goroutines, such as user authentication information and request deadlines.
- You can use it to control the life cycle of goroutines, and you can cancel the execution of a goroutine using context.
- You can create a context with custom values to pass data between goroutines.
- 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.
- Context is thread-safe, allowing it to be used simultaneously between multiple goroutines without the need for additional locks.
- 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.