Jsonclient

Overview

Dead simple Scala wrapper for Akka Http Client API that simplifies interacting with JSON Based Http APIs. It is optimized for json usage and will automatically convert responses and request to and from json. It uses jsoniter for this. With minimal bolierplate you should be up and running in minutes

Observe: Previous versions < 0.5.0) used AsyncHttpClient or Java 11 HttpClient and Json4s. Version 0.5.0+ is based on AkkaHttp and Jsoniter

2 Minute Usage Guide

import org.mellowtech.jsonclient.{JsonClient,JsonResponse}
import com.github.plokhotnyuk.jsoniter_scala.core._
import com.github.plokhotnyuk.jsoniter_scala.macros._
import scala.concurrent.Await
import scala.concurrent.duration._

case class ServerResponse(key: String, value: String)

object Test {
  import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
  
  implicit val jsonCodec = JsonCodecMaker.make[ServerResponse](CodecMakerConfig())
  
   val jc = JsonClient()
   
   val resp = jc.get[ServerResponse]("http://pathToServiceApi")
   var res: JsonResponse[ServerResponse] = Await.result(resp, 4 seconds)
   println(res.body)
   
   jc.close
  
}

Todo

• Better support for non json client requests
• Proper testing
• Simpler configuration (scala.config)
• Chunked responses

Version History

• 0.5.1 - Added example CLI and more documentation
• 0.5.0 - Using Akka Http Client as backend
• 0.4.0 - First version using Javas new HttpClient Api
• 0.3.0 - First production release. Scala 2.12 and testing
• 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT - initial snapshot release

Using JsonClient

Using JsonClientRequest

Using The Example CLI

Two Minute Intro to Jsoniter

JsonClient uses Jsoniter as its Json Parser backend. It has been chosen for its

• ease of use
• speed
• out of the box handling of java.time