net/url: No adequate method exists for encoding a URI component

[alienth]

1. What version of Go are you using (go version)?
   1.6.2
2. What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?
   linux amd64
3. What did you do?
   https://play.golang.org/p/loaa8vvCli
   Attempted to use net/url to encode a component of a URI which contained both forward-slashes and whitespace.
4. What did you expect to see?
   A method akin to JS encodeURIcomponent which would encode the component the way I need.
5. What did you see instead?
   No solution, as of yet.

I'm interacting with an API where I need to escape individual URI components. In my specific case, I'm escaping components containing whitespace and forward slashes. As demonstrated above, net/url seems to have no method which I can use to accomplish this. Any url.Parse() related function will ignore forward slashes, as it should. I also can't rely on something such as url.QueryParse(), as query string encoding turns whitespace into +.

Would it be possible for net/url to add functionality akin to JS's encodeURIcomponent to cover cases such as this?

[ianlancetaylor]

We use the issue tracker both for bugs and for proposals. That is what https://golang.org/wiki/Questions says, so I'm not clear on the disagreement you mention.

[alienth]

@ianlancetaylor Sorry, misread some instruction on this. Please disregard.

[quentinmit]

This appears to be a dupe of #13737. Unfortunately, a suitable function does not currently exist.