How to convert *url.URL to string in GO, Google App Engine

Question

I would like to get the URL and convert it to string. I have to following code:

func getURL(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    var url string = r.URL
}

I get this:

"cannot convert r.URL (type *url.URL) to type string"

This is working well:

fmt.Fprint(w,r.URL)

But I would like to use it, not just print it.

What should I do?

Solution

The url.URL type has a .String() method.

Try this.

func getURL(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    url := r.URL.String()
}

http://golang.org/pkg/net/url/#URL.String

Comments

[jdi]

Or even the shorter: url := r.URL.String() ?

[Daniel]

@jdl: True. Thanks for the suggestion. :-)

[DADi590]

How do we do the opposite? (convert from string to an URL)

[Aspekt]

@DADi590 u, err := url.Parse(urlString)

[DADi590]

@Aspekt Oh I forgot to put here when I found out how, but thank you anyway! Might help more people!