httpclient is a simple convenience package for performing http/api requests in Go. It wraps the standard libraries net/http package to avoid the repetitive http logic you're likely so familiar with. It helps to remove a good amount of the boilerplate involved with writing an http client library. Using the lib is very simple - Below is a very basic example.

Usage

package main

import (
	"log"
	"net/http"

	"s32x.com/httpclient"
)

var user = "s32x"

func main() {
	c := httpclient.New().WithBaseURL("https://api.github.com")

	var ghSuccess interface{} // A generic success response
	var ghError struct {
		Message       string `json:"message"`
		Documentation string `json:"documentation"`
	}

	expected, err := c.
		Getf("/users/%s/repos", user).
		WithExpectedStatus(http.StatusOK).
		WithRetry(5).
		JSONWithError(&ghSuccess, &ghError)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	if !expected {
		log.Println("Error :", ghError)
	} else {
		log.Println("Success :", ghSuccess)
	}
}

The BSD 3-clause License

Copyright (c) 2019, Steven Wolfe. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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