Cossack

Simple and flexible HTTP client for Crystal programming language.

Roadmap

• [x] Middleware support
• [x] Use URI to parse URL
• [x] Allow Client be initialized with base url
• [x] support headers for individual request
• [x] support headers for Client
• [x] Support of all HTTP verbs
  • [x] get
  • [x] post
  • [x] put
  • [x] patch
  • [x] delete
  • [x] head
  • [x] options
• [x] Implement class methods, like Cossack.get, Cossack.post, etc..
• [x] Swapping connections like Hurley does
• [x] Timeout
• [ ] Beta test of API
  • [ ] Update GoogleTranslate client to use Cossack
  • [ ] Update Glosbe client to use Cossack
• [ ] Follow redirections
• [ ] Examples
• [ ] Unit tests
• [ ] Additional sugar
  • [ ] Pass headers to Response.new and Request.new as Hash(String, String)
  • [ ] Add :headers argument to http methods
  • [ ] status methods for response (success?, redirect?, etc..)
• [x] Acceptance tests
• [ ] Good documentation, describing the concept and usage.
• [ ] First release!
• [ ] SSL
• [ ] Proxy

Installation

Add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  cossack:
    github: greyblake/crystal-cossack

And install dependencies:

crystal deps

Usage

require "cossack"

cossack = Cossack.new
cossack.get("http://some.url/path")

Development

To run test:

make test

Contributors

• greyblake Sergey Potapov - creator, maintainer