Effective Go Recipes

Recipe 15

Making GET Requests

Task

Your team is using GitHub for hosting your code. As part of an effort to improve the development process, you are asked to provide some metrics on the project. Your first task is to list the currently open pull requests (PRs).

After spending some time reading the GitHub API with documentation, you find out that you need to:

• Construct a URL in the format /repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls
• Set the Content-Type header to application/vnd.github.v3+json
• Pass state=open as an HTTP query parameter

The response is a JSON document in the following format:

http/pulls/reply_example.json

[
  {
    "number": 138,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "Add option to filter by date",
    ...
  },
  {
    "number": 297,
    "state":  ...