Simples way to make a []byte into a "virtual" File object in golang?

I know there are Go libraries that create entire filesystems like VFS. But I only want to make a byte array into something that can fulfill the File interface.

There is no ready solution for this in the standard library, but it's not that hard to do it yourself.

What we need is this http.File interface:

type File interface {
        io.Closer
        io.Reader
        io.Seeker
        Readdir(count int) ([]os.FileInfo, error)
        Stat() (os.FileInfo, error)
}

Please note that we can utilize bytes.Reader to do the heavy task, as that alone implements io.Reader and io.Seeker. io.Closer can be a noop, and Readdir() may return nil, nil as we're mocking a file not a directory, its Readdir() won't even be called.

The "hardest" part is to mock Stat() to return a value that implements os.FileInfo.

Here's a simple mocked FileInfo:

type myFileInfo struct {
    name string
    data []byte
}

func (mif myFileInfo) Name() string       { return mif.name }
func (mif myFileInfo) Size() int64        { return int64(len(mif.data)) }
func (mif myFileInfo) Mode() os.FileMode  { return 0444 }        // Read for all
func (mif myFileInfo) ModTime() time.Time { return time.Time{} } // Return anything
func (mif myFileInfo) IsDir() bool        { return false }
func (mif myFileInfo) Sys() interface{}   { return nil }

And with that we have everything to create our mocked http.File:

type MyFile struct {
    *bytes.Reader
    mif myFileInfo
}

func (mf *MyFile) Close() error { return nil } // Noop, nothing to do

func (mf *MyFile) Readdir(count int) ([]os.FileInfo, error) {
    return nil, nil // We are not a directory but a single file
}

func (mf *MyFile) Stat() (os.FileInfo, error) {
    return mf.mif, nil
}

Example using it (try it on the Go Playground):

data := []byte{0, 1, 2, 3}

mf := &MyFile{
    Reader: bytes.NewReader(data),
    mif: myFileInfo{
        name: "somename.txt",
        data: data,
    },
}

var f http.File = mf
_ = f