Hackney

Bindings to Erlang’s hackney HTTP client.

import gleam/hackney
import gleam/http.{Get}
import gleam/http/request
import gleeunit/should

pub fn main() {
  // Prepare a HTTP request record
  let req = request.new()
    |> request.set_method(Get)
    |> request.set_host("test-api.service.hmrc.gov.uk")
    |> request.set_path("/hello/world")
    |> request.prepend_header("accept", "application/vnd.hmrc.1.0+json")

  // Send the HTTP request to the server
  try resp = hackney.send(req)

  // We get a response record back
  resp.status
  |> should.equal(200)

  resp
  |> http.get_resp_header("content-type")
  |> should.equal(Ok("application/json"))

  resp.body
  |> should.equal("{\"message\":\"Hello World\"}")

  Ok(resp)
}

Installation

gleam add gleam_hackney