Convert an io.ReadCloser to String

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Using Go, we often make HTTP calls these days using net/http, which result in a response of type io.ReadCloser… which are hard to read for the layman (like me). What we really want to the response in the form of a string which we can read. This post will talk about how to convert these ReadCloser into strings.

First we’ll look at the problem, then we have two different solutions.

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Convert an io.ReadCloser to String