package main import ( "compress/gzip" "encoding/json" "errors" "io" "io/ioutil" "net/http" ) func get(client *http.Client, url string, output interface{}) error { req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil) if err != nil { return err } req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8") req.Header.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip") response, err := client.Do(req) if err != nil { return err } defer response.Body.Close() err = checkErrors(response) if err != nil { return err } body, err := decompress(response) if err != nil { return err } return decodeJSON(body, &output) } func checkErrors(response *http.Response) error { if response.StatusCode != 200 { body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body) return errors.New("Bad response: " + string(body)) } return nil } func decompress(response *http.Response) (io.Reader, error) { header := response.Header.Get("Content-Encoding") if len(header) < 1 { return response.Body, nil } reader, err := gzip.NewReader(response.Body) if err != nil { return nil, err } return reader, nil } func decodeJSON(body io.Reader, into interface{}) error { jsonDecoder := json.NewDecoder(body) return jsonDecoder.Decode(&into) }