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Joe Bergevin
Joe Bergevin

Reputation: 3268

Go: Posting with Payload/Post Body

Trying to accomplish a HTTP Post in Go:

Posting to: apiUrl

Payload/Post Body (expected as a json string): postBody

Here is the error I'm getting:

cannot use postBodyJson (type []byte) as type io.Reader in argument to http.Post: 
    []byte does not implement io.Reader (missing Read method)

What am I doing wrong?

Code:

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    var postBody = []string{
        "http://google.com",
        "http://facebook.com",
        "http://youtube.com",
        "http://yahoo.com",
        "http://twitter.com",
        "http://live.com",
    }
    requestUrl := "http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics"

    postBodyJson, _ := json.Marshal(postBody)

    resp, err := http.Post(requestUrl, "application/json", postBodyJson)
    fmt.Println(resp)
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1184

Answers (1)

seong
seong

Reputation: 1996

package main

import (
    "bytes"
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    var postBody = []string{
        "http://google.com",
        "http://facebook.com",
        "http://youtube.com",
        "http://yahoo.com",
        "http://twitter.com",
        "http://live.com",
    }
    apiUrl := "http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics"

    buf := bytes.NewBuffer(nil)
    enc := json.NewEncoder(buf)
    err := enc.Encode(postBody)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    resp, err := http.Post(apiUrl, "application/json", buf)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(resp)
}

Something like this might work. But as I already said in the comments, you should familiarize yourself with the language a little more. When you post code, make sure it compiles.

Upvotes: 3

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