Fix lint warnings for middleware/proxy

middleware/proxy/policy.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"sync/atomic"
 )
 
+// HostPool is a collection of UpstreamHosts.
 type HostPool []*UpstreamHost
 
 // Policy decides how a host will be selected from a pool.
@@ -12,9 +13,10 @@ type Policy interface {
 	Select(pool HostPool) *UpstreamHost
 }
 
-// The random policy randomly selected an up host from the pool.
+// Random is a policy that selects up hosts from a pool at random.
 type Random struct{}
 
+// Select selects an up host at random from the specified pool.
 func (r *Random) Select(pool HostPool) *UpstreamHost {
 	// instead of just generating a random index
 	// this is done to prevent selecting a down host
@@ -37,11 +39,12 @@ func (r *Random) Select(pool HostPool) *UpstreamHost {
 	return randHost
 }
 
-// The least_conn policy selects a host with the least connections.
+// LeastConn is a policy that selects the host with the least connections.
-// If multiple hosts have the least amount of connections, one is randomly
-// chosen.
 type LeastConn struct{}
 
+// Select selects the up host with the least number of connections in the
+// pool.  If more than one host has the same least number of connections,
+// one of the hosts is chosen at random.
 func (r *LeastConn) Select(pool HostPool) *UpstreamHost {
 	var bestHost *UpstreamHost
 	count := 0
@@ -71,11 +74,12 @@ func (r *LeastConn) Select(pool HostPool) *UpstreamHost {
 	return bestHost
 }
 
-// The round_robin policy selects a host based on round robin ordering.
+// RoundRobin is a policy that selects hosts based on round robin ordering.
 type RoundRobin struct {
 	Robin uint32
 }
 
+// Select selects an up host from the pool using a round robin ordering scheme.
 func (r *RoundRobin) Select(pool HostPool) *UpstreamHost {
 	poolLen := uint32(len(pool))
 	selection := atomic.AddUint32(&r.Robin, 1) % poolLen

middleware/proxy/proxy.go

@@ -19,18 +19,19 @@ type Proxy struct {
 	Upstreams []Upstream
 }
 
-// An upstream manages a pool of proxy upstream hosts. Select should return a
+// Upstream manages a pool of proxy upstream hosts. Select should return a
 // suitable upstream host, or nil if no such hosts are available.
 type Upstream interface {
-	//The path this upstream host should be routed on
+	// The path this upstream host should be routed on
 	From() string
 	// Selects an upstream host to be routed to.
 	Select() *UpstreamHost
 }
 
+// UpstreamHostDownFunc can be used to customize how Down behaves.
 type UpstreamHostDownFunc func(*UpstreamHost) bool
 
-// An UpstreamHost represents a single proxy upstream
+// UpstreamHost represents a single proxy upstream
 type UpstreamHost struct {
 	// The hostname of this upstream host
 	Name         string
@@ -43,6 +44,9 @@ type UpstreamHost struct {
 	CheckDown    UpstreamHostDownFunc
 }
 
+// Down checks whether the upstream host is down or not.
+// Down will try to use uh.CheckDown first, and will fall
+// back to some default criteria if necessary.
 func (uh *UpstreamHost) Down() bool {
 	if uh.CheckDown == nil {
 		// Default settings
@@ -70,10 +74,10 @@ func (p Proxy) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) (int, error) {
 				proxy := host.ReverseProxy
 				r.Host = host.Name
 
-				if baseUrl, err := url.Parse(host.Name); err == nil {
+				if baseURL, err := url.Parse(host.Name); err == nil {
-					r.Host = baseUrl.Host
+					r.Host = baseURL.Host
 					if proxy == nil {
-						proxy = NewSingleHostReverseProxy(baseUrl)
+						proxy = NewSingleHostReverseProxy(baseURL)
 					}
 				} else if proxy == nil {
 					return http.StatusInternalServerError, err

middleware/proxy/upstream.go

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package proxy
 
 import (
-	"github.com/mholt/caddy/config/parse"
 	"io"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"net/http"
@@ -9,6 +8,8 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/mholt/caddy/config/parse"
 )
 
 type staticUpstream struct {
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ type staticUpstream struct {
 	}
 }
 
-// newStaticUpstreams parses the configuration input and sets up
+// NewStaticUpstreams parses the configuration input and sets up
 // static upstreams for the proxy middleware.
 func NewStaticUpstreams(c parse.Dispenser) ([]Upstream, error) {
 	var upstreams []Upstream
@@ -130,8 +131,8 @@ func NewStaticUpstreams(c parse.Dispenser) ([]Upstream, error) {
 					}
 				}(upstream),
 			}
-			if baseUrl, err := url.Parse(uh.Name); err == nil {
+			if baseURL, err := url.Parse(uh.Name); err == nil {
-				uh.ReverseProxy = NewSingleHostReverseProxy(baseUrl)
+				uh.ReverseProxy = NewSingleHostReverseProxy(baseURL)
 			} else {
 				return upstreams, err
 			}
@@ -152,8 +153,8 @@ func (u *staticUpstream) From() string {
 
 func (u *staticUpstream) healthCheck() {
 	for _, host := range u.Hosts {
-		hostUrl := host.Name + u.HealthCheck.Path
+		hostURL := host.Name + u.HealthCheck.Path
-		if r, err := http.Get(hostUrl); err == nil {
+		if r, err := http.Get(hostURL); err == nil {
 			io.Copy(ioutil.Discard, r.Body)
 			r.Body.Close()
 			host.Unhealthy = r.StatusCode < 200 || r.StatusCode >= 400
@@ -199,7 +200,6 @@ func (u *staticUpstream) Select() *UpstreamHost {
 
 	if u.Policy == nil {
 		return (&Random{}).Select(pool)
-	} else {
-		return u.Policy.Select(pool)
 	}
+	return u.Policy.Select(pool)
 }