Trying to read gbif api and get it up to a server

webapp.go

@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ package main
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"log"
 	"net/http"
+	"io/ioutil"
 )
+
 //This works see below   This https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/name/ does not
 const apiRoot = "https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/alpha/"
 
@@ -46,16 +49,7 @@ type SpeciesKeyBody struct{
 func getCountryName(cn string) (string, string, string) {
 
 	fmt.Println("First in func",cn)
-	/*
-	{
-	   "code": "<country code in 2-letter ISO format>",
-	   "countryname": "<English human-readable country name>",
-	   "countryflag": "<link to svg version of country flag>",
-	   "species": [],
-	   "speciesKey": []
-	}
 
-	*/
 
     //Change hardcoded to func parameters "We pass them"
 	//countryCode := "NO"
@@ -79,6 +73,7 @@ func getCountryName(cn string) (string, string, string) {
 	//Closes when surrounded functions are finished
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 
+
 	//Pointer to struct
 	ci := &CntrInfo{}
 
@@ -91,33 +86,65 @@ func getCountryName(cn string) (string, string, string) {
 }
 
 // Should return species in exa: norway and key
-func getSpeciesByCountry(Ccode string) (string, int){
+func getSpeciesByCountry(Ccode string) (string, int) {
+
+
+
 	url := apiRootSpeciesInCountry + Ccode
 	resp, err := http.Get(url)
+	fmt.Printf("This is our url for species %s\n and this is our resp %s\n",url,resp)
 	if err !=nil {
 		fmt.Println("Error:we have a problem", err)
 		//Returns 0--> find better solution
 		return "", 0
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	//https://medium.com/@masnun/making-http-requests-in-golang-dd123379efe7
+	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if err !=nil {
+		log.Fatalln(err)
+	}
+	log.Println(string(body))
 
+	crf :=&CollectionFromReq{}
+	var result map[string]interface{}
+    json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&result)
+    log.Println(result["form"])
 	//Pointer to struct
 	// will this also point to the slices and what the slices contain??
 	// Points to struct containing two slices of struct
 
-	crf :=&CollectionFromReq{}
+
+	 //fmt.Printf("The crf.Count is: "crf.Count)
+	//fmt.Printf("This is after crf %s\n", crf)
 	//resp.Body JSON from API
 	//Decode resp.Body and put into .decode(HERE)
     //We need the resp.Body to be slices
-	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(crf)
 
-	fmt.Println("after json decoder",resp.Body)
+    keys :=make([]Result, 0)
 
-    for i := 0; i < crf.Count; i++ {
+         //we need to make crf.Count work
+         //crf.Count does not work https://gobyexample.com/range
+    //for _ , s := range   {
+    	//appends more capacity to our []Result
+    //	keys = append(keys,s)
+    //   }
+
+
+	//json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(crf)
+	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&keys)
+	//fmt.Printf("after json decoder ----keys----",resp.Body)
+    fmt.Printf("This is our keys %#v",keys)
+	fmt.Printf("This is crf.count %d",crf.Count)
+
+    //for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+
+	//	return crf.Collection[i].Species, crf.Collection[i].SpeciesKey
+	//}
+
+
+	return "", crf.Count
 
-		return crf.Collection[i].Species, crf.Collection[i].SpeciesKey
-	}
-	return "", 0
 }