gluahttp

gluahttp provides an easy way to make HTTP requests from within GopherLua.

Installation

go get github.com/cjoudrey/gluahttp

Usage

import "github.com/yuin/gopher-lua"
import "github.com/cjoudrey/gluahttp"

func main() {
    L := lua.NewState()
    defer L.Close()

    L.PreloadModule("http", NewHttpModule(&http.Client{}).Loader)

    if err := L.DoString(`

        local http = require("http")

        response, error_message = http.request("GET", "http://example.com", {
            query="page=1"
            headers={
                Accept="*/*"
            }
        })

    `); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
}

API

• http.delete(url [, options])
• http.get(url [, options])
• http.head(url [, options])
• http.patch(url [, options])
• http.post(url [, options])
• http.put(url [, options])
• http.request(method, url [, options])
• http.request_batch(requests)
• http.response

http.delete(url [, options])

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
url	String	URL of the resource to load
options	Table	Additional options

Options

Name	Type	Description
query	String	URL encoded query params
cookies	Table	Additional cookies to send with the request
headers	Table	Additional headers to send with the request

Returns

http.response or (nil, error message)

http.get(url [, options])

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
url	String	URL of the resource to load
options	Table	Additional options

Options

Name	Type	Description
query	String	URL encoded query params
cookies	Table	Additional cookies to send with the request
headers	Table	Additional headers to send with the request

Returns

http.response or (nil, error message)

http.head(url [, options])

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
url	String	URL of the resource to load
options	Table	Additional options

Options

Name	Type	Description
query	String	URL encoded query params
cookies	Table	Additional cookies to send with the request
headers	Table	Additional headers to send with the request

Returns

http.response or (nil, error message)

http.patch(url [, options])

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
url	String	URL of the resource to load
options	Table	Additional options

Options

Name	Type	Description
query	String	URL encoded query params
cookies	Table	Additional cookies to send with the request
body	String	Request body.
form	String	Deprecated. URL encoded request body. This will also set the Content-Type header to application/x-www-form-urlencoded
headers	Table	Additional headers to send with the request

Returns

http.response or (nil, error message)

http.post(url [, options])

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
url	String	URL of the resource to load
options	Table	Additional options

Options

Name	Type	Description
query	String	URL encoded query params
cookies	Table	Additional cookies to send with the request
body	String	Request body.
form	String	Deprecated. URL encoded request body. This will also set the Content-Type header to application/x-www-form-urlencoded
headers	Table	Additional headers to send with the request

Returns

http.response or (nil, error message)

http.put(url [, options])

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
url	String	URL of the resource to load
options	Table	Additional options

Options

Name	Type	Description
query	String	URL encoded query params
cookies	Table	Additional cookies to send with the request
body	String	Request body.
form	String	Deprecated. URL encoded request body. This will also set the Content-Type header to application/x-www-form-urlencoded
headers	Table	Additional headers to send with the request

Returns

http.response or (nil, error message)

http.request(method, url [, options])

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
method	String	The HTTP request method
url	String	URL of the resource to load
options	Table	Additional options

Options

Name	Type	Description
query	String	URL encoded query params
cookies	Table	Additional cookies to send with the request
body	String	Request body.
form	String	Deprecated. URL encoded request body. This will also set the Content-Type header to application/x-www-form-urlencoded
headers	Table	Additional headers to send with the request

Returns

http.response or (nil, error message)

http.request_batch(requests)

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
requests	Table	A table of requests to send. Each request item is by itself a table containing http.request parameters for the request

Returns

[http.response] or ([http.response], [error message])

http.response

The http.response table contains information about a completed HTTP request.

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
body	String	The HTTP response body
body_size	Number	The size of the HTTP reponse body in bytes
headers	Table	The HTTP response headers
cookies	Table	The cookies sent by the server in the HTTP response
status_code	Number	The HTTP response status code
url	String	The final URL the request ended pointing to after redirects