Periodically polling a REST endpoint in Go

Question

I am trying to write a Go application that periodically polls a REST endpoint exposed by a PHP application. The Go polling application reads the payload into a struct and does further processing. I am looking for some recommendations for starting the implementation.

Answer 1

Simplest way would be to use a Ticker:

ticker := time.NewTicker(time.Second * 1).C
go func() {
    for {
        select {
        case <- ticker:
            response,_ := http.Get("http://...")
            _, err := io.Copy(os.Stdout, response.Body)
            if err != nil {
                log.Fatal(err)
            }
            response.Body.Close()
        }
    }

}()


time.Sleep(time.Second * 10)