Playing around with JSON APIs and making http POST requests in Go

JSONRestAPI.go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "encoding/json"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
  "bytes"
)

func main(){
  url := "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts"

  data := make(map[string]interface{})
  data["title"] = "Moby Dick"
  data["body"] = "Hawt boddd"
  data["userId"] = "Bartleby"
  dataJSON, err := json.Marshal(data)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("Error marshalling json! %v \r\n", err.Error())
    return
  }
  fmt.Printf("dataJSON is: \r\n %v \r\n", string(dataJSON))

  resp, err := http.Post(url, "application/json", bytes.NewBuffer(dataJSON))
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("Error making request! %v \r\n", err.Error())
    return
  }

  defer resp.Body.Close()
  body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("Error reading response body! %v \r\n", err.Error())
    return
  }

  respMap := make(map[string]interface{})
  json.Unmarshal(body, &respMap)
  fmt.Printf("The response map is: \r\n %v \r\n", respMap)
}