Play WS VS Google HTTP Client

Compare Play WS vs Google HTTP Client and see what are their differences.

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Play WS Google HTTP Client
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220 1,367
0.0% 0.9%
8.2 7.4
2 days ago 8 days ago
Scala Java
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Play WS

Posts with mentions or reviews of Play WS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-06.
  • Code in jar dependency is packed as java code and can not be used as normal Scala dependency
    1 project | /r/scala | 4 May 2022
    Take a look at https://github.com/playframework/play-ws build.sbt. it is a scala lib built with sbt-assembly to shade dependencies and avoid binary incompatibility. That is the only reason to build a lib with sbt-assembly.
  • Scala or Go: Who Wore It Better?
    7 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2021
    In this example, the code uses Play WS Standalone as a REST client to fetch JSON containing a UUID. Play WS has an asynchronous, non-blocking API based on Future, so you need to provide an ExecutionContext via Akka. That's all the boilerplate at the beginning of this example. Sometimes it will be done for you as when you use Play WS in the context of Play Framework. Nonetheless, you should be aware it has to happen somewhere.

Google HTTP Client

Posts with mentions or reviews of Google HTTP Client. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Google HTTP Client yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Play WS and Google HTTP Client you can also consider the following projects:

unirest-java - Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.

Armeria - Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.

methanol - ⚗️ Lightweight HTTP extensions for Java

restQL-core-java - Microservice query language

Scala.js - Scala.js, the Scala to JavaScript compiler

kmq - Kafka-based message queue

Play - The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.

Akka - Build highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM