patron

A wrapper around the hyper.rs library to allow for targeted clients to specific remote APIs. This library should be useful on it's own or as a building block for specific remote API wrappers.

The Interface

Exports

We want to give out an owned std::sync::Arc wrapped client so that the user can utilize the client between threads if ncessary.

pub type Client = std::sync::Arc<patron::Client>;

Create an HTTP Star Wars API client.

struct Person {
  name: String,
  birth_year: String,
  eye_color: String,
  height: String,
  mass: String,
}

let client = try!(patron::from_str("http://swapi.co/api")
  .build()
);

let han_solo: Person = try!client.get("/people/14")
  .send()
  .and_then(|res| res.deserialize())
);

Creating an HTTPs GitHub Api client with an OAuth2 token.

use patron;

let client: patron::Client = try!(
  patron::from_str("https://api.github.com")
  .set_oauth_token("0b79bab50daca910b000d4f1a2b675d604257e42")
  .build()
);

Creating an HTTPs GitHub Api client using query based tokens.

use patron;

let client: patron::Client = try!(
  patron::from_str("https://api.github.com")
  .add_query_param("client_id", "ABCDEFGHIKLMNOP")
  .add_query_param("client_secret", "QRSTUVWXYZABCDE")
  .build()
);

Creating an HTTP client for CouchDB.

use patron;

let url: patron::Url = try!(
  patron::Url::new()
  .set_scheme(patron::Scheme::Http)
  .set_host('localhost')
  .set_port(5984)
  .build()
);

let client: patron::Client = try!(
  patron::from_url(url)
  .add_path("somedatabase")
  .basic_auth("anna", "secret")
  .build()
);

Example usage for ArangoDB

THIS IS NOT FULLY IMPLEMENTED, LIES ABOUND!

use serde_json;
use patron;

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
struct AuthRes {
  jwt: String,
  must_change_password: bool,
}

// Generally this would be built from some configuration object.
let mut url = patron::url::Url::new()
url.set_scheme(patron::Scheme::Http)
url.set_host("localhost")
url.set_port(8529)

let auth: AuthRes = try!(
  patron::Request::new(url)
  .post("/_open/auth")
  .add_body_param("username", "root")
  .add_body_param("password", "password")
  .send()
);

let mydb_client: patron::Client = try!(
  patron::from_url(url)
  .set_oauth_token(auth.jwt)
  .add_path("/_db/mydb/")
  .build()
);

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
struct Version {
  version: String,
  server: String,
}

let version: Version = try!(client.get("/_api/version").send());

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
struct NewDoc {
  #[serde(rename = "_key")]
  key: String,
  #[serde(rename = "_id")]
  id: String,
  #[serde(rename = "_rev")]
  revision: String,
}

let newdoc: NewDoc = try!(
  client.post("/_api/demo")
  .add_body_param("message", serde_json::to_value("<replace_me>").unwrap())
  .add_query_param("waitForSync", "true")
  .send()
);

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
struct Document {
  #[serde(rename = "_key")]
  key: String,
  #[serde(rename = "_id")]
  id: String,
  #[serde(rename = "_rev")]
  revision: String,
  message: Option<String>
}
  
let mut hello: Document = try!(
  client.get("/_api/document/demo/")
  .add_path(newdoc.id)
  .send()
);

hello.message = Some("Hello, World!");

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
struct UpdateRes {
  #[serde(rename = "_key")]
  key: String,
  #[serde(rename = "_id")]
  id: String,
  #[serde(rename = "_rev")]
  revision: String,
  #[serde(rename = "_oldRev")]
  previous_revision: String,
}

let res: UpdateRes = try!(
  client.put("/api/document/demo")
  .add_path(hello.id)
  .set_body(hello)
  .send()
);

Design

Response Objects: Fetch API

Notes

• Should the client be passed into the send method?

• I would like to only have one representation of a request configuration instead of the current 2.

• A more functional style design?

• I like how the fetch API returns a response object with the ability to retrieve the Body in different formats. How can this be presented along with a nice Result based interface?

  client.get('/foo')
    .send()
    .unwrap()
    .json()
  

  send() will return a Response object which you can call .json(). The .json() method will return a Result<serde_json::Value, Error>