[Solved] Web server graceful shutdown not working as expected

Question

I found the answer with the help of a fellow Gopher from the community.

The line of code containing srv.ListenAndServe() is a blocking line of code causing the log after this line of code not to happen.

In my original code I demonstrated in my earlier blog I had this log in front of the line with srv.ListenAndServe(). Therefore in that example the same code was logging to console as expected.

So after all it was a silly mistake which you can easily read over many times. Basically 2 lines of code where swapped and I forgot about the blocking behavior of http.ListenAndServe().

KEY takeaway:

http.ListenAndServe() is blocking by definition and therefore will not run any code after that line.

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