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gostman
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Gostman: Postman like inside Go testing
I just remember that actually I wrote some comparison between Gostman and Postman in the Issue.
requests
- 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?
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httpx - Reliable HTTP for GoLang
ain - A HTTP API client for the terminal
go-http-client - An enhanced and lightweight http client for Golang
httpexpect - End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.
req - Simple Go HTTP client with Black Magic
postman-app-support - Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
heimdall - An enhanced HTTP client for Go
wrapt - Wraps the go testing.T type in its own type to add testing conveniences.
httpretry - Enriches the standard go http client with retry functionality.
packet - :package: Send network packets over a TCP or UDP connection.
go-req - Declarative golang HTTP client