Simple Http

This is a bare bones http client for scala which wraps HttpURLConnection

Usage

Simple Get

  import scalaj.http.Http
  
  Http("http://foo.com/search").param("q","monkeys").asString

Simple Post

Http.post("http://foo.com/add").params("name" -> "jon", "age" -> "29").asString

OAuth Dance and Request

  import scalaj.http.{Http, Token}
  
  val consumer = Token("key", "secret")
  val token = Http("http://foursquare.com/oauth/request_token").param("oauth_callback","oob").oauth(consumer).asToken
  
  println("Go to http://foursquare.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=" + token.key)
  
  val verifier = Console.readLine("Enter verifier: ").trim

  val accessToken = Http("http://foursquare.com/oauth/access_token").oauth(consumer, token, verifier).asToken
  
  println(Http("http://api.foursquare.com/v1/history.json").oauth(consumer, accessToken).asString)

Parsing the response

Http("http://foo.com").{responseCode, asString, asXml, asBytes, asParams}

Installation

sbt

val scalaj_http = "org.scalaj" %% "scalaj-http" % "0.2"

maven

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.scalaj</groupId>
    <artifactId>scalaj-http_${scala.version}</artifactId>
    <version>0.2</version>
  </dependency>  

Advanced Usage Examples

Parse the response InputStream using Lift Json

  import java.io.InputStreamReader
  import net.liftweb.json.JsonParser
  
  Http("http://foo.com"){inputStream => 
    JsonParser.parse(new InputStreamReader(is))
  }

Post raw Array[Byte] or String data and get response code

Http.postData(url, data).header("content-type", "application/json").responseCode

Post multipart/form-data

Http.multipart(url, MultiPart("photo","headshot.png", "image/png", fileBytes)).responseCode

Send https request to site with self-signed or otherwise shady certificate

Http("https://localhost/").option(HttpOptions.allowUnsafeSSL).asString

Do a HEAD request

Http(url).option(HttpOptions.method("HEAD")).asString

Custom connect and read timeouts

These are set to 30,000 and 60,000 milliseconds respectively by default

Http(url).option(HttpOptions.connTimeout(1000)).option(HttpOptions.readTimeout(5000)).asString

Other custom options

The .option() method takes a function of type HttpURLConnection => Unit so you can manipulate the connection in whatever way you want before the request executes.

TODOS

• Retrieve triple of (statuscode, responseheaders, content)
• Handle other http methods better (PUT,HEAD,DELETE)