Gin Integration with socket.io

I'm pretty new in Go! but I just finished to migrate my nodejs REST api to Go... I need to implement a behaviour of sails.js framwork which can handle socket.io requests and simulate http ones...the only way to do it with Gin I found was 'mocking' the request like I do on my test:

return func(so *gosocketio.Channel, req SockRequest) SockResponse {
// Prepare the request (SockRequest is a json incoming on the socket unmarshaled by socket.io)
            request, _ := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, req.Url, nil)
            for prop, value := range req.Headers {
                request.Header.Set(prop, value)
            }
            request.Header.Set("SockId", so.Id())

            writer := httptest.NewRecorder()
            srv.ServeHTTP(writer, request)
            var body interface{}
            _ = json.Unmarshal(writer.Body.Bytes(), &body)

            return SockResponse{Body: body, Headers: writer.Header(), StatusCode: writer.Code}
}

I have a huge drop of performance, I assume is on the chain here, as a lots of marshaling, unmarshaling, mocking and the httptest.NewRecorder()...

So my question is, any advice? what's the best way to do this? Thanks in advance!

Comment From: cp-sumi-k

If you are still pending with this issue, can use this awesome socket.io library written in golang.

Comment From: doquangtan

Use can use this lib socket.io golang. It is socketio server version 4.x and it can using with client version 3.x, 4.x

import (
    "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
    socketio "github.com/doquangtan/socket.io/v4"
)

func main() {
    io := socketio.New()

    io.OnConnection(func(socket *socketio.Socket) {
        // ...
    })

    router := gin.Default()
    router.GET("/socket.io/", gin.WrapH(io.HttpHandler()))
    router.Run(":3300")
}