Auto Decode

About Auto Decode

Req detect the charset of response body and decode it to utf-8 automatically to avoid garbled characters by default.

Its principle is to detect Content-Type header at first, if it’s not the text content type (json, xml, html and so on), req will not try to decode. If it is, then req will try to find the charset information. And req also will try to sniff the body’s content to determine the charset if the charset information is not included in the header, if sniffed out and not utf-8, then decode it to utf-8 automatically, and req will not try to decode if the charset is not sure, just leave the body untouched.

Customization

You can disable auto decode if you don’t need or care a lot about performance:

client.DisableAutoDecode()

And also you can make some customization:

// Try to auto-detect and decode all content types (some server may return incorrect Content-Type header)
client.SetAutoDecodeAllContentType()

// Only auto-detect and decode content which `Content-Type` header contains "html" or "json"
client.SetAutoDecodeContentType("html", "json")

// Or you can customize the function to determine whether to decode
fn := func(contentType string) bool {
    if regexContentType.MatchString(contentType) {
        return true
    }
    return false
}
client.SetAutoDecodeContentTypeFunc(fn)
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