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https://github.com/h2non/gentleman
Plugin-driven, extensible HTTP client toolkit for Go
https://github.com/h2non/gentleman
client consul golang http http-client middleware modular pluggable retry sdk
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Plugin-driven, extensible HTTP client toolkit for Go
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/h2non/gentleman
- Owner: h2non
- License: mit
- Created: 2016-02-21T23:00:24.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-12-17T15:53:50.000Z (12 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-29T08:05:12.036Z (13 days ago)
- Topics: client, consul, golang, http, http-client, middleware, modular, pluggable, retry, sdk
- Language: Go
- Homepage: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/h2non/gentleman?tab=doc
- Size: 256 KB
- Stars: 1,084
- Watchers: 18
- Forks: 53
- Open Issues: 25
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: History.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# gentleman [](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/releases) [](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2) [](https://coveralls.io/github/h2non/gentleman?branch=master) [](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/h2non/gentleman) [](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman)
Full-featured, plugin-driven, middleware-oriented toolkit to easily create rich, versatile and composable HTTP clients in [Go](http://golang.org).
gentleman embraces extensibility and composition principles in order to provide a flexible way to easily create featured HTTP client layers based on built-in or third-party plugins that you can register and reuse across HTTP clients.
As an example, you can easily provide retry policy capabilities or dynamic server discovery in your HTTP clients simply attaching the [retry](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman-retry) or [consul](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman-consul) plugins.
Take a look to the [examples](#examples), list of [supported plugins](#plugins), [HTTP entities](#http-entities) or [middleware layer](#middleware) to get started.
For testing purposes, see [baloo](https://github.com/h2non/baloo), an utility library for expressive end-to-end HTTP API testing, built on top of `gentleman` toolkit. For HTTP mocking, see [gentleman-mock](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman-mock), which uses [gock](https://github.com/h2non/gock) under the hood for easy and expressive HTTP client request mocking.
## Versions
- [v2](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/) - Latest version. Stable. Recommended.
- [v1](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/tree/v1) - First version. Stable. Actively maintained.
## Features
- Plugin driven architecture.
- Simple, expressive, fluent API.
- Idiomatic built on top of `net/http` package.
- Context-aware hierarchical middleware layer supporting all the HTTP life cycle.
- Built-in multiplexer for easy composition capabilities.
- Easy to extend via plugins/middleware.
- Ability to easily intercept and modify HTTP traffic on-the-fly.
- Convenient helpers and abstractions over Go's HTTP primitives.
- URL template path params.
- Built-in JSON, XML and multipart bodies serialization and parsing.
- Easy to test via HTTP mocking (e.g: [gentleman-mock](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman-mock)).
- Supports data passing across plugins/middleware via its built-in context.
- Fits good while building domain-specific HTTP API clients.
- Easy to hack.
- Dependency free.
## Installation
```bash
go get -u gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2
```
## Requirements
- Go 1.9+
## Plugins
Name
Docs
Status
Description
url
Easily declare URL, base URL and path values in HTTP requests
auth
Declare authorization headers in your requests
body
Easily define bodies based on JSON, XML, strings, buffers or streams
bodytype
Define body MIME type by alias
cookies
Declare and store HTTP cookies easily
compression
Helpers to define enable/disable HTTP compression
headers
Manage HTTP headers easily
multipart
Create multipart forms easily. Supports files and text fields
proxy
Configure HTTP proxy servers
query
Easily manage query params
redirect
Easily configure a custom redirect policy
timeout
Easily configure the HTTP timeouts (request, dial, TLS...)
transport
Define a custom HTTP transport easily
tls
Configure the TLS options used by the HTTP transport
retry
Provide retry policy capabilities to your HTTP clients
mock
Easy HTTP mocking using gock
consul
Consul based server discovery with configurable retry/backoff policy
### Community plugins
Name
Docs
Status
Description
logger
Easily log requests and responses
[Send](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/pull/new/master) a PR to add your plugin to the list.
### Creating plugins
You can create your own plugins for a wide variety of purposes, such as server discovery, custom HTTP tranport, modify any request/response param, intercept traffic, authentication and so on.
Plugins are essentially a set of middleware function handlers for one or multiple HTTP life cycle phases exposing [a concrete interface](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/blob/755d55eef0bd26ae6b4ee19fe59001db2c46a51b/plugin/plugin.go#L16-L35) consumed by gentleman middleware layer.
For more details about plugins see the [plugin](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/tree/master/plugin) package and [examples](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/tree/master/_examples/plugin).
Also you can take a look to a plugin [implementation example](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/blob/master/_examples/plugin/plugin.go).
## HTTP entities
`gentleman` provides two HTTP high level entities: `Client` and `Request`.
Each of these entities provides a common API and are both middleware capable, giving you the ability to plug in custom components with own logic into any of them.
`gentleman` was designed to provide strong reusability capabilities.
This is mostly achieved via its built-in hierarchical, inheritance-based middleware layer.
The following list describes how inheritance hierarchy works and is used across gentleman's entities.
- `Client` entity can inherit from other `Client` entity.
- `Request` entity can inherit from a `Client` entity.
- `Client` entity is mostly designed for reusability.
- `Client` entity can create multiple `Request` entities who implicitly inherits from `Client` entity itself.
- `Request` entity is designed to have specific HTTP request logic that is not typically reused.
- Both `Client` and `Request` entities are full middleware capable interfaces.
- Both `Client` and `Request` entities can be cloned in order to produce a copy but side-effects free new entity.
You can see an inheritance usage example [here](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/blob/master/_examples/inheritance/inheritance.go).
## Middleware
gentleman is completely based on a hierarchical middleware layer based on plugins that executes one or multiple function handlers (aka plugin interface) providing a simple way to plug in intermediate custom logic in your HTTP client.
It supports multiple phases which represents the full HTTP request/response life cycle, giving you the ability to perform actions before and after an HTTP transaction happen, even intercepting and stopping it.
The middleware stack chain is executed in FIFO order designed for single thread model.
Plugins can support goroutines, but plugins implementors should prevent data race issues due to concurrency in multithreading programming.
For more implementation details about the middleware layer, see the [middleware](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/tree/master/middleware) package and [examples](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/tree/master/_examples/middleware).
#### Middleware phases
Supported middleware phases triggered by gentleman HTTP dispatcher:
- **request** - Executed before a request is sent over the network.
- **response** - Executed when the client receives the response, even if it failed.
- **error** - Executed in case that an error ocurrs, support both injected or native error.
- **stop** - Executed in case that the request has been manually stopped via middleware (e.g: after interception).
- **intercept** - Executed in case that the request has been intercepted before network dialing.
- **before dial** - Executed before a request is sent over the network.
- **after dial** - Executed after the request dialing was done and the response has been received.
Note that the middleware layer has been designed for easy extensibility, therefore new phases may be added in the future and/or the developer could be able to trigger custom middleware phases if needed.
Feel free to fill an issue to discuss this capabilities in detail.
## API
See [godoc reference](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2) for detailed API documentation.
#### Subpackages
- [plugin](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/tree/master/plugin) - [godoc](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2/plugin) - Plugin layer for gentleman.
- [mux](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/tree/master/mux) - [godoc](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2/mux) - HTTP client multiplexer with built-in matchers.
- [middleware](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/tree/master/middleware) - [godoc](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2/middleware) - Middleware layer used by gentleman.
- [context](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/tree/master/context) - [godoc](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2/context) - HTTP context implementation for gentleman's middleware.
- [utils](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/tree/master/utils) - [godoc](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2/utils) - HTTP utilities internally used.
## Examples
See [examples](https://github.com/h2non/gentleman/blob/master/_examples) directory for featured examples.
#### Simple request
```go
package main
import (
"fmt"
"gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2"
)
func main() {
// Create a new client
cli := gentleman.New()
// Define base URL
cli.URL("http://httpbin.org")
// Create a new request based on the current client
req := cli.Request()
// Define the URL path at request level
req.Path("/headers")
// Set a new header field
req.SetHeader("Client", "gentleman")
// Perform the request
res, err := req.Send()
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Request error: %s\n", err)
return
}
if !res.Ok {
fmt.Printf("Invalid server response: %d\n", res.StatusCode)
return
}
// Reads the whole body and returns it as string
fmt.Printf("Body: %s", res.String())
}
```
#### Send JSON body
```go
package main
import (
"fmt"
"gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2"
"gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2/plugins/body"
)
func main() {
// Create a new client
cli := gentleman.New()
// Define the Base URL
cli.URL("http://httpbin.org/post")
// Create a new request based on the current client
req := cli.Request()
// Method to be used
req.Method("POST")
// Define the JSON payload via body plugin
data := map[string]string{"foo": "bar"}
req.Use(body.JSON(data))
// Perform the request
res, err := req.Send()
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Request error: %s\n", err)
return
}
if !res.Ok {
fmt.Printf("Invalid server response: %d\n", res.StatusCode)
return
}
fmt.Printf("Status: %d\n", res.StatusCode)
fmt.Printf("Body: %s", res.String())
}
```
#### Composition via multiplexer
```go
package main
import (
"fmt"
"gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2"
"gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2/mux"
"gopkg.in/h2non/gentleman.v2/plugins/url"
)
func main() {
// Create a new client
cli := gentleman.New()
// Define the server url (must be first)
cli.Use(url.URL("http://httpbin.org"))
// Create a new multiplexer based on multiple matchers
mx := mux.If(mux.Method("GET"), mux.Host("httpbin.org"))
// Attach a custom plugin on the multiplexer that will be executed if the matchers passes
mx.Use(url.Path("/headers"))
// Attach the multiplexer on the main client
cli.Use(mx)
// Perform the request
res, err := cli.Request().Send()
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Request error: %s\n", err)
return
}
if !res.Ok {
fmt.Printf("Invalid server response: %d\n", res.StatusCode)
return
}
fmt.Printf("Status: %d\n", res.StatusCode)
fmt.Printf("Body: %s", res.String())
}
```
## License
MIT - Tomas Aparicio