/hackney

🪝 Make requests to HTTP servers with Hackney

Primary LanguageGleamApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

Hackney

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Bindings to Erlang's hackney HTTP client.

import gleam/result.{try}
import gleam/hackney
import gleam/http.{Get}
import gleam/http/request
import gleam/http/response
import gleeunit/should

pub fn main() {
  // Prepare a HTTP request record
  let assert Ok(request) =
    request.to("https://test-api.service.hmrc.gov.uk/hello/world")

  // Send the HTTP request to the server
  use response <- try(
    request
    |> request.prepend_header("accept", "application/vnd.hmrc.1.0+json")
    |> hackney.send
  )

  // We get a response record back
  response.status
  |> should.equal(200)

  response
  |> response.get_header("content-type")
  |> should.equal(Ok("application/json"))

  response.body
  |> should.equal("{\"message\":\"Hello World\"}")

  Ok(response)
}

Installation

gleam add gleam_hackney