docs: Golang function developer's guide (#297)

* docs: Golang function developer's guide

Signed-off-by: Zbynek Roubalik <zroubali@redhat.com>

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+# Golang Function Developer's Guide
+
+When creating a Go (Golang) function using the `func` CLI, the project directory
+looks like a typical Go project. Both HTTP and Event functions have the same
+template structure.
+
+```
+❯ func create -l go fn
+Project path: /home/developer/projects/fn
+Function name: fn
+Runtime: go
+Trigger: http
+
+❯ tree
+fn
+├── README.md
+├── func.yaml
+├── go.mod
+├── go.sum
+├── handle.go
+└── handle_test.go
+```
+
+Aside from the `func.yaml` file, this looks like the beginning of just about
+any Go project. For now, we will ignore the `func.yaml` file, and just
+say that it is a configuration file that is used when building your project.
+If you're really interested, check out the [reference doc](config-reference.doc).
+To learn more about the CLI and the details for each supported command, see
+the [CLI Commands document](commands.md#cli-commands).
+
+## Running the function locally
+
+To run a function, you'll first need to build it. This step creates an OCI
+container image that can be run locally on your computer, or on a Kubernetes
+cluster.
+
+```
+❯ func build
+```
+
+After the function has been built, it can be run locally.
+
+```
+❯ func run
+```
+
+Functions can be invoked with a simple HTTP request. 
+You can test to see if the function is working by using your browser to visit
+http://localhost:8080. You can also access liveness and readiness
+endpoints at http://localhost:8080/health/liveness and
+http://localhost:8080/health/readiness. These two endpoints are used
+by Kubernetes to determine the health of your function. If everything
+is good, both of these will return `{"ok":true}`.
+
+## Deploying the function to a cluster
+
+To deploy your function to a Kubenetes cluster, use the `deploy` command.
+
+```
+❯ func deploy
+```
+
+You can get the URL for your deployed function with the `describe` command.
+
+```
+❯ func describe
+```
+
+## Testing a function locally
+
+
+Go functions can be tested locally on your computer. In the project there is
+a `handle_test.go` file which contains simple test which can be extended as needed. 
+Yo can run this test locally as you would do with any Go project.
+
+```
+❯ go test
+```
+
+## Function reference
+
+Boson Go functions have very few restrictions. You can add any required dependencies
+in `go.mod` and you may include additional local Go files. The only real requirement are 
+that your project is defined in a `function` module and exports the function `Handle()` 
+(supported contracts of this function will be discussed more deeply later).
+In this section, we will look in a little more detail at how Boson functions are invoked,
+and what APIs are available to you as a developer.
+
+### Invocation parameters
+
+When using the `func` CLI to create a function project, you may choose to generate a project
+that responds to a `CloudEvent` or simple HTTP. `CloudEvents` in Knative are transported over
+HTTP as a `POST` request, so in many ways, the two types of functions are very much the same.
+They each will listen and respond to incoming HTTP events.
+
+#### Function triggered by HTTP request
+
+When an incoming request is received, your function will be invoked with a standard
+Golang [Context](https://golang.org/pkg/context/) as the first parameter followed by
+two parameters: Golang's [http.ResponseWriter](https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ResponseWriter)
+and [http.Request](https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Request). 
+
+Then you can use standard Golang techniques to access the request (eg. read the body)
+and set a proper HTTP response of your function, as you can see on the following example:
+
+```go
+func Handle(ctx context.Context, res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+
+  // Read body
+  body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(req.Body)
+  defer req.Body.Close()
+  if err != nil {
+	http.Error(res, err.Error(), 500)
+	return
+  }
+
+  // Process body & function logic
+  // ...
+}
+```
+
+#### Function triggered by CloudEvent
+
+If the incoming request is a `CloudEvent`, the event is provided via
+[CloudEvents Golang SDK](https://cloudevents.github.io/sdk-go/) and its `Event` type
+as a parameter. There's possibility to leverage Golang's
+[Context](https://golang.org/pkg/context/) as the optional parameter in the function contract,
+as you can see in the list of supported function signatures:
+
+```go
+Handle()
+Handle() error
+Handle(context.Context)
+Handle(context.Context) error
+Handle(cloudevents.Event)
+Handle(cloudevents.Event) error
+Handle(context.Context, cloudevents.Event)
+Handle(context.Context, cloudevents.Event) error
+Handle(cloudevents.Event) *cloudevents.Event
+Handle(cloudevents.Event) (*cloudevents.Event, error)
+Handle(context.Context, cloudevents.Event) *cloudevents.Event
+Handle(context.Context, cloudevents.Event) (*cloudevents.Event, error)
+```
+
+For example, a `CloudEvent` is received which contains a JSON string such as this in its data property, 
+
+```json
+{ 
+  "customerId": "0123456",
+  "productId": "6543210"
+}
+```
+
+to access this data, we need to define `Purchase` structure, which maps properties in `CloudEvents`
+data and retrive it from the incoming event:
+
+```go
+type Purchase struct {
+  CustomerId string `json:"customerId"`
+  ProductId  string `json:"productId"`
+}
+
+func Handle(ctx context.Context, event cloudevents.Event) err error {
+	  
+  purchase := &Purchase{}
+  if err = cloudevents.DataAs(purchase); err != nil {
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "failed to parse incoming CloudEvent %s\n", err)
+	return
+  }
+
+  // ...
+}
+```
+
+Or we can use Golang's `encoding/json` package to access the `CloudEvent` directly as
+a JSON in form of bytes array:
+
+```golang
+func Handle(ctx context.Context, event cloudevents.Event) {
+
+  bytes, err := json.Marshal(event)
+
+  // ...
+}
+```
+
+### Return Values
+As mentioned above, HTTP triggered functions can set the response directly via
+Golang's [http.ResponseWriter](https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ResponseWriter).
+
+```go
+func Handle(ctx context.Context, res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+
+  // Set response
+  res.Header().Add("Content-Type", "text/plain")
+  res.Header().Add("Content-Length", "3")
+  res.WriteHeader(200)
+
+  _, err := fmt.Fprintf(res, "OK\n")
+  if err != nil {
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error or response write: %v", err)
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Functions triggered by `CloudEvent` may return nothing, `error` and/or `CloudEvent` in order
+to push events into the Knative eventing system. In this case, the developer is required
+to set a unique `ID`, proper `Source` and a `Type` of the CloudEvent. The data can be populated
+from a defined structure or from a `map`.
+
+```go
+func Handle(ctx context.Context, event cloudevents.Event) (resp *cloudevents.Event, err error) {
+
+  // ...
+
+  response := cloudevents.NewEvent()
+  response.SetID("example-uuid-32943bac6fea")
+  response.SetSource("purchase/getter")
+  response.SetType("purchase")
+
+  // Set the data from Purchase type
+  response.SetData(cloudevents.ApplicationJSON, Purchase{
+	CustomerId: custId,
+	ProductId:  prodId,
+  })
+
+  // OR set the data directly from map
+  response.SetData(cloudevents.ApplicationJSON, map[string]string{"customerId": custId, "productId": prodId})
+
+  // Validate the response
+  resp = &response
+  if err = resp.Validate(); err != nil {
+	fmt.Printf("invalid event created. %v", err)
+  }
+
+  return
+}
+```
+
+## Dependencies
+Developers are not restricted to the dependencies provided in the template
+`go.mod` file. Additional dependencies can be added as they would be in any
+other Golang project.
+
+### Example
+```console
+go get gopkg.in/yaml.v2@v2.4.0
+```
+
+When the project is built for deployment, these dependencies will be included
+in the resulting runtime container image.