Example of doing a multipart upload in Go (golang)

multipart_upload.go

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"log"
	"mime/multipart"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
)

// Creates a new file upload http request with optional extra params
func newfileUploadRequest(uri string, params map[string]string, paramName, path string) (*http.Request, error) {
	file, err := os.Open(path)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	defer file.Close()
	
	fi, err := file.Stat()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	body := &bytes.Buffer{}
	writer := multipart.NewWriter(body)
	part, err := writer.CreateFormFile(paramName, fi.Name())
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	_, err = io.Copy(part, file)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	for key, val := range params {
		if err := writer.WriteField(key, val); err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
	}
	if err := writer.Close(); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	return http.NewRequest("POST", uri, body)
}

func main() {
	path, _ := os.Getwd()
	path += "/test.pdf"
	extraParams := map[string]string{
		"title":       "My Document",
		"author":      "Matt Aimonetti",
		"description": "A document with all the Go programming language secrets",
	}
	request, err := newfileUploadRequest("https://google.com/upload", extraParams, "file", "/tmp/doc.pdf")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	client := &http.Client{}
	resp, err := client.Do(request)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	} else {
		body := &bytes.Buffer{}
		_, err := body.ReadFrom(resp.Body)
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatal(err)
		}
                resp.Body.Close()
		fmt.Println(resp.StatusCode)
		fmt.Println(resp.Header)

		fmt.Println(body)
	}
}