I am pretty new to Go and don't quite understand everything as yet. In many of the modern languages Node.js, Angular, jQuery, PHP you can do a GET request with additional query string parameters.
Doing this in Go isn't quite a simple as it seems, and I can't really figure it out as yet. I really don't want to have to concatenate a string for each of the requests I want to do.
Here is the sample script:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
client := &http.Client{}
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "http://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/popular", nil)
req.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Errored when sending request to the server")
return
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
resp_body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
fmt.Println(resp.Status)
fmt.Println(string(resp_body))
}
In this example you can see there is a URL, which requires a GET variable of api_key with your api key as the value. The problem being that this becomes hard coded in the form of:
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "http://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/popular?api_key=mySuperAwesomeApiKey", nil)
Is there a way to build this query string dynamically?? At the moment I will need to assemble the URL prior to this step in order to get a valid response.
As a commenter mentioned you can get Values
from net/url
which has an Encode
method. You could do something like this (req.URL.Query()
returns the existing url.Values
)
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"os"
)
func main() {
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "http://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/popular", nil)
if err != nil {
log.Print(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
q := req.URL.Query()
q.Add("api_key", "key_from_environment_or_flag")
q.Add("another_thing", "foo & bar")
req.URL.RawQuery = q.Encode()
fmt.Println(req.URL.String())
// Output:
// http://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/popular?another_thing=foo+%26+bar&api_key=key_from_environment_or_flag
}
http://play.golang.org/p/L5XCrw9VIG
Use r.URL.Query()
when you appending to existing query, if you are building new set of params use the url.Values
struct like so
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"os"
)
func main() {
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET","http://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/popular", nil)
if err != nil {
log.Print(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
// if you appending to existing query this works fine
q := req.URL.Query()
q.Add("api_key", "key_from_environment_or_flag")
q.Add("another_thing", "foo & bar")
// or you can create new url.Values struct and encode that like so
q := url.Values{}
q.Add("api_key", "key_from_environment_or_flag")
q.Add("another_thing", "foo & bar")
req.URL.RawQuery = q.Encode()
fmt.Println(req.URL.String())
// Output:
// http://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/popularanother_thing=foo+%26+bar&api_key=key_from_environment_or_flag
}