Golang : Calculate entire request body length during run time
Problem:
You are trying to figure out what to fill into the number_of_bytes_in_entire_request_body
field when making a http.NewRequest()
. You need to calculate the entire request body as a requirement for the Content-Length
header.
Solution:
From the https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Request type documentation :
// ContentLength records the length of the associated content.
// The value -1 indicates that the length is unknown.
// Values >= 0 indicate that the given number of bytes may
// be read from Body.
// For client requests, a value of 0 means unknown if Body is not nil.
ContentLength int64
We can derive the request body size(length) during run time from the Request.ContentLength
. Therefore, to send the number of bytes in the entire request body as a header information, you can do it in such as way.
request.Header.Add("Content-Length", strconv.FormatInt(request.ContentLength,10))
strconv.FormatInt()
is to convert the int64 type to string type.
Hope this helps!
References:
https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-convert-cast-int64-to-string
See also : Golang : Google Drive API upload and rename example
By Adam Ng
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