I'm new to Go and trying to generate multiple requests to several http/ https servers to check the response time and the status of each web server.
I stored the URLs in a text file, afterwards I decided to add a ticker to my code which will keep generating these requests on each URL after a certain amount of time (the amount of time is in seconds typed next to each URL and spaced with a tab).
When I started scanning the time from the file everything got complicated and I can't manage to find my mistake. Here is my Go code:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"log"
"net/http"
"strconv"
"strings"
"sync"
"time"
)
func get_resp_time(url string) { //Get time for each URL
time_start := time.Now()
fmt.Println("Start time", time_start, " URL ", url)
resp, err := http.Get(url)
//fmt.Printf("resp : %#v
", resp)
if err != nil {
log.Printf("Error fetching: %v", err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
fmt.Println(time.Since(time_start), url, " Status: ", resp.Status)
}
func main() {
content, _ := ioutil.ReadFile("url_list.txt")
lines := strings.Split(string(content), "\t")
//fields := strings.Split(string(content), "\t")
//fmt.Println(lines[1])
//fmt.Println(strconv.Atoi(lines[0]))
const workers = 25
var nb int
wg := new(sync.WaitGroup)
in := make(chan string, 2*workers)
if _, err := strconv.Atoi(lines[1]); err == nil {
nb, err = strconv.Atoi(lines[1])
}
ticker := time.NewTicker(time.Second * time.Duration(nb))
for t := range ticker.C {
fmt.Println("Time of origin: ", time.Now())
for i := 0; i < len(lines)-1; i++ {
wg.Add(1)
go func() {
defer wg.Done()
//for j := 0; j < len(in); j++ {
if _, err := strconv.Atoi(lines[i]); err == nil {
nb, err = strconv.Atoi(lines[i])
//get_resp_time(url)
} else {
get_resp_time(lines[i])
}
//}
}()
}
for _, url := range lines {
if url != "" {
in <- url
}
}
fmt.Println("Tick at ", t)
}
close(in)
wg.Wait()
}
And the text file:
http://google.com 5
http://nike.com 10
This is the error I got:
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal 0xb code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x2752]
goroutine 9 [running]:
panic(0x313180, 0xc82000a0d0)
/usr/local/go/src/runtime/panic.go:464 +0x3e6
main.get_resp_time(0xc82006e195, 0x14)
/Users/Elliott/Desktop/GoTutorial/url-time-response.go:26 +0x712
main.main.func1(0xc820070dc0, 0xc82006e1e0, 0xc8200a0090, 0x9, 0x9, 0xc820070da8)
/Users/Elliott/Desktop/GoTutorial/url-time-response.go:61 +0x13f
created by main.main
/Users/Elliott/Desktop/GoTutorial/url-time-response.go:65 +0x4a6
exit status 2
EDIT: Alright, I just changed the file to having only one duration because apparently it's pretty complicated to have multiple duration(according to my project advisor). Thanks for the help!