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net/http

I still love to know what I did wrong in my approach below.

Definitions:

publicaddress

This is the curl request to get the owner of a contract. I managed to get the owner. (JSON RPC docs)

curl localhost:8545 -X POST \
--header 'Content-type: application/json' \
--data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"eth_call", "params":[{"to": "0x_MY_CONTRACT_ADDRESS", "data": "0x8da5cb5b"}, "latest"], "id":1}'

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":"0x000000000000000000000000_OWNER"}

But when I try to replicate it in Golang (code below), I got json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type main.response error. (go-ethereum code that I use)

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "os"

    "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc"
)

func main() {
    client, err := rpc.DialHTTP(os.Getenv("RPC_SERVER"))
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    defer client.Close()

    type request struct {
        To   string `json:"to"`
        Data string `json:"data"`
    }

    type response struct {
        Result string
    }

    req := request{"0x_MY_CONTRACT_ADDRESS", "0x8da5cb5b"}
    var resp response
    if err := client.Call(&resp, "eth_call", req, "latest"); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    fmt.Printf("%v
", resp)
}

What did I miss here?

Expected result:

0x3ab17372b25154400738C04B04f755321bB5a94b

P/S — I'm aware of abigen and I know it's better and easier to do this using abigen. But I'm trying to solve this specific issue without using abigen method.