high-level HTTP client for Go.

requests is a high-level, API-centric HTTP client for Go projects. It is meant to provide a more comfortable mechanism to perform requests to HTTP APIs (rather than making general requests), and to prevent common mistakes made when using net/http directly.

With requests, one must not need to remember to read HTTP responses in full (so Go can reuse TCP connections), nor to close response bodies. Handling of JSON data - be it in requests or responses - is made easier by way of built-in encoders/decoders. An automatic retry mechanism is also included.

The library allows a "DRY" (Dont Repeat Yourself) approach to REST API usage by introducing API-specific dependencies into the client object. For example, authorization headers and response handlers can be set in the client object, and all generated requests will automatically include them.

go get -u github.com/ido50/requests

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"time"

	"github.com/ido50/requests"
)

const apiURL = "https://my.api.com/v2"

type RequestBody struct {
	Title   string   `json:"title"`
	Tags    []string `json:"tags"`
	Publish bool     `json:"publish"`
}

type ResponseBody struct {
	ID   int64     `json:"id"`
	Date time.Time `json:"date"`
}

func main() {
	client := requests.
		NewClient(apiURL).
		Accept("application/json").
		BasicAuth("user", "pass").
		RetryLimit(3)

	var res ResponseBody

	err := client.
		NewRequest("POST", "/articles").
		JSONBody(RequestBody{
			Title:   "Test Title",
			Tags:    []string{"test", "stories"},
			Publish: true,
		}).
		ExpectedStatus(http.StatusCreated).
		Into(&res).
		Run()
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("Created article %d on %s\n", res.ID, res.Date.Format(time.RFC3339))
}