A lightweight wrapper over Go’s HTTP client
While building an event-driven system which involved making HTTP requests to various external stakeholders, I felt the need of having an extremely lightweight wrapper over Go’s HTTP client.
This wrapper is supposed to provide a clean interface for setting various parameters in your request (query params, body, content type etc.) and handle various redundant tasks like the marshalling/unmarshalling of request/response, closing response body after it has been read etc.
Github repo: https://github.com/abhinav-codealchemist/custom-error-go
Usage:
import (
http "github.com/abhinav-codealchemist/http-wrapper-go/http_wrapper"
http2 "net/http"
)req := requests.NewCancelOrderRequest()
endpoint := fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s", getHostUrl(), cancel_order_endpoint)
request := http.NewHttpRequestParams(endpoint, http2.MethodPost)
request.SetBody(req)
request.SetAuthToken(getAuthKey())
request.SetHost(getHostHeader())
apiResponse := responses.CreateOrderApiResponse{}
err = http.MakeApiCall(ctx, request, &apiResponse)
if err.Exists() {
return
}
Conclusion:
All you need is the request struct, endpoint, authentication params etc at your disposal and rest of the work can be taken care of with just a few lines of code thereby preventing code duplication and at the same easing the developer of redundant efforts involved in such cases.
