util

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Index

• func FetchURLWithRetries(url string, attempts int, duration time.Duration) ([]byte, error)
• func GetURLData(urlString string, attempts int) ([]byte, error)

Functions

func FetchURLWithRetries

func FetchURLWithRetries(url string, attempts int, duration time.Duration) ([]byte, error)

Try to fetch the given url string, and make <attempts> attempts at it. Wait for <duration> time between each try. This returns the data from the response body []byte upon successful fetch The passed URL is not validated, so validate the URL before passing to this function

func GetURLData

func GetURLData(urlString string, attempts int) ([]byte, error)

This function validates the URL, then tries to fetch the data with retries and then reads and returns the data as []byte Returns an error if the URL is invalid, or fetching the data failed or if reading the response body fails.