Go 1.27 has been released with support for generic methods (release notes, proposal golang/go#77273). This removes the language limitation mentioned in #2856 — "structs can not have generic methods, only generic functions are allowed" — that forced the typed helpers in v4 to be package-level functions like echo.PathParam[int](c, "id").
Now that v5's Context is a struct and the language supports it, the helpers can become real methods:
Before (v4 style):
id, err := echo.PathParam[int](c, "id")
page, err := echo.QueryParam[int](c, "page")
After (generic methods):
id, err := c.PathParam[int]("id")
page, err := c.QueryParam[int]("page")Suggested additions (mirroring the v4 helper set):
func (c *Context) PathParam[T any](name string) (T, error)
func (c *Context) QueryParam[T any](name string) (T, error)
func (c *Context) FormParam[T any](name string) (T, error)
func (c *Context) PathParamOr[T any](name string, def T) (T, error)
func (c *Context) QueryParamOr[T any](name string, def T) (T, error)
func (c *Context) FormParamOr[T any](name string, def T) (T, error)
func (c *Context) QueryParams[T any](name string) ([]T, error)
func (c *Context) FormParams[T any](name string) ([]T, error)
Note: since Context is no longer an interface in v5, adding methods is not a breaking change for users — existing code calling c.PathParam("id") keeps compiling, and the existing package-level generic functions can be kept (or deprecated) as thin wrappers.
The only blocker is the minimum Go version: generic methods require go 1.27 in go.mod. Filing this now so it's on the radar for when Echo bumps its minimum supported Go version to 1.27.
Go 1.27 has been released with support for generic methods (release notes, proposal golang/go#77273). This removes the language limitation mentioned in #2856 — "structs can not have generic methods, only generic functions are allowed" — that forced the typed helpers in v4 to be package-level functions like
echo.PathParam[int](c, "id").Now that v5's
Contextis a struct and the language supports it, the helpers can become real methods:Before (v4 style):
After (generic methods):
Suggested additions (mirroring the v4 helper set):
Note: since
Contextis no longer an interface in v5, adding methods is not a breaking change for users — existing code callingc.PathParam("id")keeps compiling, and the existing package-level generic functions can be kept (or deprecated) as thin wrappers.The only blocker is the minimum Go version: generic methods require
go 1.27in go.mod. Filing this now so it's on the radar for when Echo bumps its minimum supported Go version to 1.27.