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gluahttp: an http module for gopher-lua
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# gluahttp

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gluahttp provides an easy way to make HTTP requests from within [GopherLua](https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua).

## Installation

```
go get github.com/cjoudrey/gluahttp
```

## Usage

```go
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",
timeout="30s",
headers={
Accept="*/*"
}
})

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

## API

- [`http.delete(url [, options])`](#httpdeleteurl--options)
- [`http.get(url [, options])`](#httpgeturl--options)
- [`http.head(url [, options])`](#httpheadurl--options)
- [`http.patch(url [, options])`](#httppatchurl--options)
- [`http.post(url [, options])`](#httpposturl--options)
- [`http.put(url [, options])`](#httpputurl--options)
- [`http.request(method, url [, options])`](#httprequestmethod-url--options)
- [`http.request_batch(requests)`](#httprequest_batchrequests)
- [`http.response`](#httpresponse)

### 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 |
| timeout | Number/String | Request timeout. Number of seconds or String such as "1h" |
| auth | Table | Username and password for HTTP basic auth. Table keys are *user* for username, *pass* for passwod. `auth={user="user", pass="pass"}` |

**Returns**

[http.response](#httpresponse) 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 |
| timeout | Number/String | Request timeout. Number of seconds or String such as "1h" |
| auth | Table | Username and password for HTTP basic auth. Table keys are *user* for username, *pass* for passwod. `auth={user="user", pass="pass"}` |

**Returns**

[http.response](#httpresponse) 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 |
| timeout | Number/String | Request timeout. Number of seconds or String such as "1h" |
| auth | Table | Username and password for HTTP basic auth. Table keys are *user* for username, *pass* for passwod. `auth={user="user", pass="pass"}` |

**Returns**

[http.response](#httpresponse) 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 |
| timeout | Number/String | Request timeout. Number of seconds or String such as "1h" |
| auth | Table | Username and password for HTTP basic auth. Table keys are *user* for username, *pass* for passwod. `auth={user="user", pass="pass"}` |

**Returns**

[http.response](#httpresponse) 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 |
| timeout | Number/String | Request timeout. Number of seconds or String such as "1h" |
| auth | Table | Username and password for HTTP basic auth. Table keys are *user* for username, *pass* for passwod. `auth={user="user", pass="pass"}` |

**Returns**

[http.response](#httpresponse) 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 |
| timeout | Number/String | Request timeout. Number of seconds or String such as "1h" |
| auth | Table | Username and password for HTTP basic auth. Table keys are *user* for username, *pass* for passwod. `auth={user="user", pass="pass"}` |

**Returns**

[http.response](#httpresponse) 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 |
| timeout | Number/String | Request timeout. Number of seconds or String such as "1h" |
| auth | Table | Username and password for HTTP basic auth. Table keys are *user* for username, *pass* for passwod. `auth={user="user", pass="pass"}` |

**Returns**

[http.response](#httpresponse) 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](#httprequestmethod-url--options) parameters for the request |

**Returns**

[[http.response](#httpresponse)] or ([[http.response](#httpresponse)], [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 |