How to concatenate paths for api request?

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Hello

When I write an API client, I have a problem with using path.Join.
My API client needs to concatenate a base path and a subpath per each API call.

I don’t want to worry about multiple slashes, use path.Join.
However, I found path.Join remove trailing slash. (Please see below code.)
The last slash is important for API server that I use.

Is there good way for concatenate base path and subpath for API clients?

https://play.golang.org/p/Tg8o0eDVkM

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/url"
	"path"
)

func main() {
	u, err := url.Parse("http://path:8080/api/v1/")
	if err != nil {
		panic("invalid url")
	}

	u.Path = path.Join(u.Path, "/somepath/")
	fmt.Printf("%s\n", u.Path) // must be /api/v1/somepath/
}
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Internally, Join calls Clean. According to the source code comments, Clean appends a slash if the path is absolute. (Remember, the path package is about file system paths.)
However, I was not able to confirm this after modifying your playground code so that Join receives an absolute path. (path.Join("/" + u.Path(...), ...) still returns a path without trailing slash.)

So the simple solution is to add the trailing slash through string concatenation: path.Join(...) + "/".
To be absolutely sure you don’t end up with a double trailing slash, you can apply strings.Trim to the result of Join before appending the slash.

4

Thank you for the pointer to the source code.

path.Clean is useful, but not customizable.
So, I decide to use string concatenation( path.Join(…) + “/” ) if the subpath has a / suffix (checked by HasSuffix).

Thanks.