Either you make a method of it and then you can call it in 1 line, or you can use some libraries like OkHttp from square which will let you do that with only 5

Either you make a method of it and then you can call it in 1 line, or you can use some libraries like OkHttp from square which will let you do that with only 5 indented lines, not 20+. Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("http://example.com/upload") .post(RequestBody.create(IMAGE_JPEG, file) .build(); Response response = new OkHttpClient().newCall(request).execute(); But yes Go's standard library is cool, but Java's ecosystem is too, and larger.