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Question

I couldn't find anything helpful online on this one.

I am writing an REST API, and I want to log the size of the body of the request in bytes for metrics. Go net/http API does not provide that directly. http.Request does have Content-Length field, but that field can be empty or the client might send false data.

Is there a way to get that in the middlware level? The bruteforce method would be to read the full body and check the size. But if I do that in the middleware, the handler will not have access to the body because it would have been read and closed.

Answer 1

Why do you want a middle in here?
The simple way is b, err = io.Copy(anyWriterOrMultiwriter, r.Body)
b is total content length of request when err == nil
Use request body as you want. Also b, err = io.Copy(ioutil.Discard, r.Body)