rekwest

Fluent HTTP request client

Installation

Use go get:

$ go get github.com/m90/rekwest

Example

Perform a POST request, encoding the JSON response into data, by calling Do(targets ...interface{}) on the previously constructed request:

req := rekwest.New("https://www.example.com/api/create-animal").
    Method(http.MethodPost).
    JSONBody(map[string]interface{}{
        "kind":     "platypus",
        "flappers": true,
    }).
    BasicAuth("username", "secret")

data := responseType{}
if err := req.Do(&data); err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

Features

Authentication

Use BasicAuth(username, password string) or BearerToken(token string) to send Authorization headers:

rekwest.New("https://www.example.com/api").BasicAuth("user", "pass")

rekwest.New("https://www.example.com/api").BearerToken("my-token")

Context

Add a context.Context using Context(ctx context.Context):

timeout, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), time.Minute)
defer cancel()

rekwest.New("https://www.example.com/api").Context(timeout).Do()

Timeout

Set a duration for when the request is supposed to time out using Timeout(value time.Duration):

rekwest.New("https://www.example.com/api").Timeout(time.Second)

Headers

Set header values using Header(key, value string) or Headers(headers map[string]string):

r := rekwest.New("https://www.example.com/api").Header("X-Foo", "bar")
r.Headers(map[string]string{
	"X-Bar":   "foo",
	"X-Other": "another one",
})

HTTP Client

Use a custom http.Client instance by passing it to Client(client *http.Client):

rekwest.New("https://www.example.com/api").Client(&http.Client{
	Timeout: time.Second,
})

Response content type

Use ResponseFormat(format ResponseFormat) in case you want to specify the expected payload:

json := rekwest.New("https://www.example.com/api").ResponseFormat(rekwest.ResponseFormatJSON)
data := responseType{}
err := json.Do(&data)

Available formats are ResponseFormatJSON, ResponseFormatXML and ResponseFormatBytes. If no value is set, rekwest will try to read the responses Content-Type header and act accordingly. If none is sent, the response body will be treated as type []byte.

For JSON and XML, the correct Accept header will be automatically set.

Request body Marshaling

Request payloads can automatically be marshalled into the desired format using JSONBody(data interface{}), XMLBody(data interface{}) and MarshalBody(data interface{}, marshalFunc func(interface{}) ([]byte, error)):

rekwest.New("https://www.example.com/api/create-animal").
    Method(http.MethodPost).
    JSONBody(map[string]interface{}{
        "kind":     "platypus",
        "flappers": true,
    })

Alternatively an io.Reader can be passed to Body(data io.Reader).

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