backoff
⏱ The exponential backoff algorithm in Go (by cenkalti)
requests
HTTP requests for Gophers (by earthboundkid)
| backoff | requests | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 25 | |
| 3,264 | 1,396 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.1 | 6.7 | |
| about 1 month ago | 20 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
backoff
Posts with mentions or reviews of backoff.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
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Retry operations with constant, delays and exponential backoff strategies
Why this instead of https://github.com/avast/retry-go or https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff ?
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Gosyphus: Retries with exponential backoff
What about https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff?
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Libraries you use most of your projects?
In addition to the ones you mentioned, I also always use: + sqlc - Compile SQL to type-safe code + gqlgen - generate GraphQL server from schema + oapi-codegen - Go client and server boilerplate from OpenAPI 3 specifications + pester - Go http calls with retries and backoff + backoff - exponential backoff algorithm in Go
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retry package for golang
May I suggest directions to improve? - add option for exponential or linear backoff - stop early on non-retriable errors Example: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4 (do not know about its author, just a package I've been using).
- How to implement a retry mechanism for goroutines?
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Queuing up API requests with waitgroups?
I have used https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff a few years ago and I don't know if it's the best candidate at this point but it's worth to consider in combination with or as an alternative to x/time/rate if you are going that route.
requests
Posts with mentions or reviews of requests.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-13.
- I wrote my own Go HTTP client
- requests v0.23.4 with XML support
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How use gorilla/http for requests
Here is a good HTTP client library that is still under maintenance: https://github.com/carlmjohnson/requests
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The Go libraries that never failed us: 22 libraries you need to know
https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2021/requests-golang-http-client/ talks about why that’s the API. To be honest, I think a lot of people have an irrational fear of mutability. If you want to make a clone, use .Clone(). If not then don’t. But if you don’t like mutability, you’re going to dislike using the Go standard library, which uses mutable package variables all over the place.
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Too many returns?
Yeah, tons of boilerplate. See https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2021/requests-golang-http-client/
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How I write offline API tests in Go
Yeah, I made a simple response recorder inspired by VCR. VCR is a little more complex than I need but the basic approach is great.
- Libraries you use most of your projects?
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json response data from curl tool is different than http.Get method.
The native Go HTTP library is very capable, but it is extremely verbose. At the risk of introducing more complexity, I suggest using https://github.com/carlmjohnson/requests just so you don’t have to deal with checking all the errors and making the status code is correct.
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How GoLang Generics Empower Concise API: HTML Table Extraction Case Study
What the other commenter said but also read this: https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2021/requests-golang-http-client/ It talks about the need for clients and contexts throughout.
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go-vcr v3 has been released
VCR is a great project, and because it uses the standard Go http.RoundTripper interface, you can use it with other projects!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing backoff and requests you can also consider the following projects:
go-wiki - This is a Golang open-source module that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia (Wikipedia API wrapper)
httpx - Reliable HTTP for GoLang
try - Simple idiomatic retry package for Go
go-http-client - An enhanced and lightweight http client for Golang
pp - Colored pretty printer for Go language
req - Simple Go HTTP client with Black Magic
sqlc - Generate type-safe code from SQL
heimdall - An enhanced HTTP client for Go
pretty - Pretty printing for Go values
httpretry - Enriches the standard go http client with retry functionality.
retry - Small, full-featured, 100% test-covered retry package for golang.
packet - :package: Send network packets over a TCP or UDP connection.