Request-response pattern over asynchronous protocol using Go channel

request-response.go

package main

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"math/rand"
	"net/http"
	"sync"
	"time"

	"github.com/gorilla/websocket"
)

// Request represents a request from client
type Request struct {
	ID      uint64      `json:"id"`
	Message interface{} `json:"message"`
}

// Response is the reply message from the server
type Response struct {
	ID      uint64      `json:"id"`
	Message interface{} `json:"message"`
}

// Call represents an active request
type Call struct {
	Req   Request
	Res   Response
	Done  chan bool
	Error error
}

func NewCall(req Request) *Call {
	done := make(chan bool)
	return &Call{
		Req:  req,
		Done: done,
	}
}

type WSClient struct {
	mutex   sync.Mutex
	conn    *websocket.Conn
	pending map[uint64]*Call
	counter uint64
}

func New() *WSClient {
	return &WSClient{
		pending: make(map[uint64]*Call, 1),
		counter: 1,
	}
}

func (c *WSClient) read() {
	var err error
	for err == nil {
		var res Response
		err = c.conn.ReadJSON(&res)
		if err != nil {
			err = fmt.Errorf("error reading message: %q", err)
			continue
		}
		// fmt.Printf("received message: %+v\n", res)
		c.mutex.Lock()
		call := c.pending[res.ID]
		delete(c.pending, res.ID)
		c.mutex.Unlock()
		if call == nil {
			err = errors.New("no pending request found")
			continue
		}
		call.Res = res
		call.Done <- true
	}
	c.mutex.Lock()
	for _, call := range c.pending {
		call.Error = err
		call.Done <- true
	}
	c.mutex.Unlock()
}

func (c *WSClient) Connect(url string) error {
	conn, _, err := websocket.DefaultDialer.Dial(url, http.Header{
		"User-Agent": []string{"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36"},
	})
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	c.conn = conn
	go c.read()
	return nil
}

func (c *WSClient) Request(payload interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
	c.mutex.Lock()
	id := c.counter
	c.counter++
	req := Request{ID: id, Message: payload}
	call := NewCall(req)
	c.pending[id] = call
	err := c.conn.WriteJSON(&req)
	if err != nil {
		delete(c.pending, id)
		c.mutex.Unlock()
		return nil, err
	}
	c.mutex.Unlock()
	select {
	case <-call.Done:
	case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
		call.Error = errors.New("request timeout")
	}

	if call.Error != nil {
		return nil, call.Error
	}
	return call.Res.Message, nil
}

func (c *WSClient) Close() error {
	return c.conn.Close()
}

func main() {
	client := New()
	err := client.Connect("ws://echo.websocket.org")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	var wg sync.WaitGroup
	wg.Add(20)
	for i := 1; i <= 20; i++ {
		go func() {
			want := rand.Intn(100)
			res, err := client.Request(want)
			if err != nil {
				fmt.Println("error transaction: %d", err)
				wg.Done()
				return
			}
			got := int(res.(float64))
			if got != want {
				panic(fmt.Errorf("got: %d\nwant: %d\n", got, want))
			}
			fmt.Printf("transaction %d : %d\n", want, got)
			wg.Done()
		}()
	}
	wg.Wait()

	defer func() {
		err = client.Close()
		if err != nil {
			panic(err)
		}
	}()
}

Hello, under what license is this gist released under ? I would like to study it to learn more about networking in Go. Its a very educational example that I would like to use as a "template" or "pattern" for my own code. Thank you.