seperate routes, provide robust handler types, use mux

server/parsing/parsing.go

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+package parsing
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"strconv"
+)
+
+func GetStrParam(r *http.Request, key string) string {
+	return r.URL.Query().Get(key)
+}
+
+func GetStrParamOr(r *http.Request, key, or string) string {
+	val := GetStrParam(r, key)
+	if val == "" {
+		return or
+	}
+	return val
+}
+
+func GetIntParam(r *http.Request, key string) (int, error) {
+	strVal := r.URL.Query().Get(key)
+	if strVal == "" {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("no param with key `%s`", key)
+	}
+	val, err := strconv.Atoi(strVal)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("not an int `%s`", strVal)
+	}
+	return val, nil
+}
+
+func GetIntParamOr(r *http.Request, key string, or int) int {
+	val, err := GetIntParam(r, key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return or
+	}
+	return val
+}