Issue creating a Secret in Kubernetes using the Golang client

I have the following code:

secret, err = d.serviceClient.Secrets(namespace).Get(secret.Name, metav1.GetOptions{})
if err != nil {
    // If not found, create a new secret
    if _, err := d.serviceClient.Secrets(namespace).Create(secret); err != nil {
        return errors.Wrap(err, "error creating user secrets")
    }
}

And the code generating a secret:

func generateDatabaseSecret(message types.Deployment) *apiv1.Secret {
    data := map[string][]byte{
        "TEST":     []byte("test"),
    }
    object := metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "test"}
    secret := &v1.Secret{Data: data, ObjectMeta: object}

    output, _ := json.Marshal(secret)
    log.Println(string(output))
    return secret

}

However when I run the above against my Kubernetes cluster, I get the following error:

 error creating user secrets: Secret "" is invalid: metadata.name: Required value: name or generateName is required

Even though the JSON encoded secret is as followed:

{"metadata":{"name":"test","creationTimestamp":null},"data":{"TEST":"bG9jYWxsb3N0"}

Am I missing something super obvious here? It doesn't make any sense