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tesla
The flexible HTTP client library for Elixir, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.
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HttpBuilder
A DSL for building chainable, composable HTTP requests. API structure taken from the lovely elm-http-builder
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Using zstandard on-the-fly (de)compression in Elixir
We use Req, one of the best Elixir libraries. We send the response body to the field :into where a function - that respects Req's specs - is waiting to process the received streams.
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Notes on streaming downloads with progress in Elixir
We will use the Req library, a superset of Finch, which is itself a superset of Mint.
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How to implement a disk cache plugin for Elixir's Req HTTP client?
> no error checking at all (I assume it just panics or exception?)
In Elixir, bang functions per convention will raise on error. `get/2` will return error tuples allowing you to handle errors. In fact, get!/2 just calls get/2 and raises for you[^1].
> no mention of JSON at all
Req is the most "batteries included" Elixir HTTP lib out there. I can't speak for Wojtek, but I believe the goal was to make Req extremely easy to use in scripting or things like LiveBook without having to do much work. That being said, the automatic decoding is mentioned in the readme[^2] and the docs[^3].
> if "body" is JSON, how do you even get the raw body, or can you?
Per the docs[^3], you can either skip with a `:raw` option, or just build your own request using only the steps you want.
> just seems over engineered/over fitted whatever you want to call it.
Fair, but again, this library is designed to be on that end of the spectrum. There are plenty of other libraries further down the stack that you can use. I am partial to Finch[^4], upon which Req is built.
To address the sibling comment about "Let it Crash", the language allows you to easily recover from crashes, but that is for resiliency, not error handling. In practice you would use the non-bang get/2, pattern match on the response, handle any errors, perhaps use Kernel.get_in/2 to safely traverse the map, etc. The example provided by the author is not "production ready".
[^1]: https://github.com/wojtekmach/req/blob/v0.3.11/lib/req.ex#L3...
- A Breakdown of HTTP Clients in Elixir
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wojtekmach/req is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
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