func readTransfer()

in garbage/nethttp.go [5891:5994]
90 lines of code
23 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

func readTransfer(msg interface{}, r *bufio.Reader) (err error) {
	t := &transferReader{RequestMethod: "GET"}

	isResponse := false
	switch rr := msg.(type) {
	case *Response:
		t.Header = rr.Header
		t.StatusCode = rr.StatusCode
		t.ProtoMajor = rr.ProtoMajor
		t.ProtoMinor = rr.ProtoMinor
		t.Close = shouldClose(t.ProtoMajor, t.ProtoMinor, t.Header, true)
		isResponse = true
		if rr.Request != nil {
			t.RequestMethod = rr.Request.Method
		}
	case *Request:
		t.Header = rr.Header
		t.RequestMethod = rr.Method
		t.ProtoMajor = rr.ProtoMajor
		t.ProtoMinor = rr.ProtoMinor

		t.StatusCode = 200
		t.Close = rr.Close
	default:
		panic("unexpected type")
	}

	if t.ProtoMajor == 0 && t.ProtoMinor == 0 {
		t.ProtoMajor, t.ProtoMinor = 1, 1
	}

	t.TransferEncoding, err = fixTransferEncoding(isResponse, t.RequestMethod, t.Header)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	realLength, err := fixLength(isResponse, t.StatusCode, t.RequestMethod, t.Header, t.TransferEncoding)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	if isResponse && t.RequestMethod == "HEAD" {
		if n, err := parseContentLength(t.Header.get("Content-Length")); err != nil {
			return err
		} else {
			t.ContentLength = n
		}
	} else {
		t.ContentLength = realLength
	}

	t.Trailer, err = fixTrailer(t.Header, t.TransferEncoding)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	switch msg.(type) {
	case *Response:
		if realLength == -1 &&
			!chunked(t.TransferEncoding) &&
			bodyAllowedForStatus(t.StatusCode) {

			t.Close = true
		}
	}

	switch {
	case chunked(t.TransferEncoding):
		if noBodyExpected(t.RequestMethod) {
			t.Body = eofReader
		} else {
			t.Body = &body{src: internal.NewChunkedReader(r), hdr: msg, r: r, closing: t.Close}
		}
	case realLength == 0:
		t.Body = eofReader
	case realLength > 0:
		t.Body = &body{src: io.LimitReader(r, realLength), closing: t.Close}
	default:

		if t.Close {

			t.Body = &body{src: r, closing: t.Close}
		} else {

			t.Body = eofReader
		}
	}

	switch rr := msg.(type) {
	case *Request:
		rr.Body = t.Body
		rr.ContentLength = t.ContentLength
		rr.TransferEncoding = t.TransferEncoding
		rr.Close = t.Close
		rr.Trailer = t.Trailer
	case *Response:
		rr.Body = t.Body
		rr.ContentLength = t.ContentLength
		rr.TransferEncoding = t.TransferEncoding
		rr.Close = t.Close
		rr.Trailer = t.Trailer
	}

	return nil
}