Golang io.copy twice on the request body

Question

I am building a blob storage system and i picked Go as the programming language. I create a stream to do a multipart file upload from client to the blob server.

The stream works fine, but i want to make a sha1 hash from the request body. I need to io.Copy the body twice. The sha1 gets created but the multipart streams 0 bytes after that.

1. For creating the hash
2. For streaming the body as multipart

any idea how i can do this?

the client upload

func (c *Client) Upload(h *UploadHandle) (*PutResult, error) {
body, bodySize, err := h.Read()
if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}

// Creating a sha1 hash from the bytes of body
dropRef, err := drop.Sha1FromReader(body)
if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}

bodyReader, bodyWriter := io.Pipe()
writer := multipart.NewWriter(bodyWriter)

errChan := make(chan error, 1)
go func() {
    defer bodyWriter.Close()
    part, err := writer.CreateFormFile(dropRef, dropRef)
    if err != nil {
        errChan <- err
        return
    }
    if _, err := io.Copy(part, body); err != nil {
        errChan <- err
        return
    }
    if err = writer.Close(); err != nil {
        errChan <- err
    }
}()

req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", c.Server+"/drops/upload", bodyReader)
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", writer.FormDataContentType())
resp, err := c.Do(req)
if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}
  .....
 }

the sha1 func

func Sha1FromReader(src io.Reader) (string, error) {
hash := sha1.New()
_, err := io.Copy(hash, src)
if err != nil {
    return "", err
}
return hex.EncodeToString(hash.Sum(nil)), nil

}

upload handle

func (h *UploadHandle) Read() (io.Reader, int64, error) {
var b bytes.Buffer

hw := &Hasher{&b, sha1.New()}
n, err := io.Copy(hw, h.Contents)

if err != nil {
    return nil, 0, err
}

return &b, n, nil

}

Answer 1

I would suggest using an io.TeeReader if you want to push all reads from the blob through the sha1 concurrently.

bodyReader := io.TeeReader(body, hash)

Now as the bodyReader is consumed during upload, the hash is automatically updated.

Answer 2

You have two options.

The most direct way is to use io.MultiWriter.

But if you need the hash to produce the multipart output, then you will have to copy to a bytes.Buffer and then write the buffer back to each writer.