HTTP client for Elixir, based on HTTPotion (documentation).
First, add HTTPoison to your mix.exs dependencies:
def deps do
[
{:httpoison, "~> 2.0"}
]
endand run $ mix deps.get. Add :httpoison to your applications list if your Elixir version is 1.3 or lower:
def application do
[applications: [:httpoison]]
endThe main change that caused a major version is that ssl option now merges with the default options where previously it would override the ssl options. The new option ssl_override was added to allow people to keep the previous behaviour but it's more explicit now.
defp default_ssl_options() do
[
{:versions, [:"tlsv1.2", :"tlsv1.3"]},
{:verify, :verify_peer},
{:cacertfile, :certifi.cacertfile()},
{:depth, 10},
{:customize_hostname_check,
[
match_fun: :public_key.pkix_verify_hostname_match_fun(:https)
]}
]
endMore context here: #466
iex> HTTPoison.start
iex> HTTPoison.get! "https://postman-echo.com/get"
%HTTPoison.Response{
status_code: 200,
body: "{\n \"args\": {},\n \"headers\": {\n \"x-forwarded-proto\": \"https\",\n \"x-forwarded-port\": \"443\",\n \"host\": \"postman-echo.com\",\n \"x-amzn-trace-id\": \"Root=1-644624fb-769bca0458e739dc07f6b630\",\n \"user-agent\": \"hackney/1.18.1\"\n },\n \"url\": \"https://postman-echo.com/get\"\n}",
headers: [ ... ]
}
iex> HTTPoison.get! "http://localhost:1"
** (HTTPoison.Error) :econnrefused
iex> HTTPoison.get "http://localhost:1"
{:error, %HTTPoison.Error{id: nil, reason: :econnrefused}}
iex> HTTPoison.post "https://postman-echo.com/post", "{\"body\": \"test\"}", [{"Content-Type", "application/json"}]
{:ok,
%HTTPoison.Response{
status_code: 200,
body: "{\n \"args\": {},\n \"data\": {\n \"body\": \"test\"\n },\n \"files\": {},\n \"form\": {},\n \"headers\": {\n \"x-forwarded-proto\": \"https\",\n \"x-forwarded-port\": \"443\",\n \"host\": \"postman-echo.com\",\n \"x-amzn-trace-id\": \"Root=1-6446255e-703101813ec2e395202ab494\",\n \"content-length\": \"16\",\n \"user-agent\": \"hackney/1.18.1\",\n \"content-type\": \"application/json\"\n },\n \"json\": {\n \"body\": \"test\"\n },\n \"url\": \"https://postman-echo.com/post\"\n}",
headers: [ ... ]
}}You can also easily pattern match on the HTTPoison.Response struct:
case HTTPoison.get(url) do
{:ok, %HTTPoison.Response{status_code: 200, body: body}} ->
IO.puts body
{:ok, %HTTPoison.Response{status_code: 404}} ->
IO.puts "Not found :("
{:error, %HTTPoison.Error{reason: reason}} ->
IO.inspect reason
endHere is the list of all possible error reasons.
There are a number of supported options(not to be confused with the HTTP options method), documented here, that can be added to your request. The example below shows the use of the :ssl and :recv_timeout options for a post request to an api that requires a bearer token. The :ssl option allows you to set options accepted by the Erlang SSL module, and :recv_timeout sets a timeout on receiving a response, the default is 5000ms.
token = "some_token_from_another_request"
url = "https://example.com/api/endpoint_that_needs_a_bearer_token"
headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer #{token}", "Accept": "Application/json; Charset=utf-8"]
options = [ssl: [{:versions, [:'tlsv1.2']}], recv_timeout: 500]
{:ok, response} = HTTPoison.get(url, headers, options)And the example below shows the use of the :ssl options for a post request to an api that requires a client certification.
url = "https://example.org/api/endpoint_that_needs_client_cert"
options = [ssl: [certfile: "certs/client.crt"]]
{:ok, response} = HTTPoison.post(url, [], options)You can also use the HTTPoison.Base module in your modules in order to make
cool API clients or something. The following example wraps HTTPoison.Base in
order to build a client for the GitHub API
(Poison is used for JSON decoding):
defmodule GitHub do
use HTTPoison.Base
@expected_fields ~w(
login id avatar_url gravatar_id url html_url followers_url
following_url gists_url starred_url subscriptions_url
organizations_url repos_url events_url received_events_url type
site_admin name company blog location email hireable bio
public_repos public_gists followers following created_at updated_at
)
def process_request_url(url) do
"https://api.github.com" <> url
end
def process_response_body(body) do
body
|> Poison.decode!
|> Map.take(@expected_fields)
|> Enum.map(fn({k, v}) -> {String.to_atom(k), v} end)
end
endiex> GitHub.start
iex> GitHub.get!("/users/myfreeweb").body[:public_repos]
37It's possible to extend the functions listed below:
def process_request_body(body), do: body
def process_request_headers(headers) when is_map(headers) do
Enum.into(headers, [])
end
def process_request_headers(headers), do: headers
def process_request_options(options), do: options
def process_request_url(url), do: url
def process_response_body(body), do: body
def process_response_chunk(chunk), do: chunk
def process_response_headers(headers), do: headers
def process_response_status_code(status_code), do: status_codeHTTPoison now comes with async requests!
iex> HTTPoison.get! "https://github.com/", %{}, stream_to: self
%HTTPoison.AsyncResponse{id: #Reference<0.0.0.1654>}
iex> flush
%HTTPoison.AsyncStatus{code: 200, id: #Reference<0.0.0.1654>}
%HTTPoison.AsyncHeaders{headers: %{"Connection" => "keep-alive", ...}, id: #Reference<0.0.0.1654>}
%HTTPoison.AsyncChunk{chunk: "<!DOCTYPE html>...", id: #Reference<0.0.0.1654>}
%HTTPoison.AsyncEnd{id: #Reference<0.0.0.1654>}
:okWarning: this option can flood a receiver in messages.
If a server may send very large messages the async: :once option should be used.
This will send only a single chunk at a time the receiver can call HTTPoison.stream_next/1 to indicate ability to process more chunks.
HTTPoison allows you to send cookies:
iex> HTTPoison.get!("https://postman-echo.com/cookies", %{}, hackney: [cookie: ["session=a933ec1dd923b874e691; logged_in=true"]])
%HTTPoison.Response{
status_code: 200,
body: "{\n \"cookies\": {\n \"session\": \"a933ec1dd923b874e691\",\n \"logged_in\": \"true\"\n }\n}",
headers: [ ... ]
}You can also receive cookies from the server by reading the "set-cookie" headers in the response:
iex(1)> response = HTTPoison.get!("https://postman-echo.com/cookies/set?foo=1")
iex(2)> cookies = Enum.filter(response.headers, fn
...(2)> {key, _} -> String.match?(key, ~r/\Aset-cookie\z/i)
...(2)> end)
[ {"set-cookie", "foo=1; Path=/"}, ...]You can see more usage examples in the test files (located in the
test/) directory.
Normally hackney opens and closes connections on demand, but it also creates a default pool of connections which are reused for requests to the same host. If the connection and host support keepalive, the connection is kept open until explicitly closed.
To use the default pool, you can just declare it as an option:
HTTPoison.get("httpbin.org/get", [], hackney: [pool: :default])It is possible to use different pools for different purposes when a more fine grained allocation of resources is necessary.
The easiest way is to just pass the name of the pool, and hackney will create it if it doesn't exist. Pools are independent from each other (they won't compete for connections) and are created with the default configuration.
HTTPoison.get("httpbin.org/get", [], hackney: [pool: :first_pool])
HTTPoison.get("httpbin.org/get", [], hackney: [pool: :second_pool])If you want to use different configuration options you can create a pool manually when your app starts with :hackney_pool.start_pool/2.
:ok = :hackney_pool.start_pool(:first_pool, [timeout: 15000, max_connections: 100])From the already linked hackney's readme:
timeoutis the time we keep the connection alive in the pool,max_connectionsis the number of connections maintained in the pool. Each connection in a pool is monitored and closed connections are removed automatically.
If you don't want to use a pool for a single http request, you can do it by passing an option:
HTTPoison.get("httpbin.org/get", [], hackney: [pool: false])If you want to disable the usage of the pool for every request you can do it by adding this to your environment configuration:
config :hackney, use_default_pool: falseYou can find a little explanation here hackney's readme.
A third option is to add the pool as part of your supervision tree:
children = [
:hackney_pool.child_spec(:first_pool, [timeout: 15000, max_connections: 100])
]Add that to the application supervisor and first_pool will be available to be used by HTTPoison/hackney.
HTTPoison supports making multipart requests. E.g. with a local file:
HTTPoison.post("https://myurl.php", {:multipart, [{:file, "test.txt", {"form-data", [{"name", "mytest"}, {"filename", "test.txt"}]}, []}]})Sometimes you may already have the file contents in memory and want to upload it elsewhere. A common example is fetching the file from a service like S3 and uploading it somewhere else. There is no need to persist the file locally, you can do the below:
binary_file_content = "Something you fetched and now have it in memory"
token = "some_token_from_another_request"
headers = [{"Authorization", "Bearer #{token}"}, {"Content-Type", "multipart/form-data"}]
options = [ssl: [{:versions, [:'tlsv1.2']}], recv_timeout: 500]
HTTPoison.request(
:post,
"https://myurl.com",
{:multipart,
[{"file", binary_file_content, {"form-data", [name: "file", filename: "a_file_name.txt"]}, []}]},
headers,
options
)Further examples of multipart requests can be found in the issues (e.g.: here and here).
For more complex queries regarding multipart requests, you should follow the hackney docs for the multipart API.
HTTPoison supports parsing multipart responses. E.g.:
iex(1)> response = %HTTPoison.Response{
...(1)> body: "--123\r\nContent-type: application/json\r\n\r\n{\"1\": \"first\"}\r\n--123\r\nContent-type: application/json\r\n\r\n{\"2\": \"second\"}\r\n--123--\r\n",
...(1)> headers: [{"Content-Type", "multipart/mixed;boundary=123"}],
...(1)> request_url: "http://localhost",
...(1)> status_code: 200
...(1)> }
%HTTPoison.Response{
body: "--123\r\nContent-type: application/json\r\n\r\n{\"1\": \"first\"}\r\n--123\r\nContent-type: application/json\r\n\r\n{\"2\": \"second\"}\r\n--123--\r\n",
headers: [{"Content-Type", "multipart/mixed;boundary=123"}],
request_url: "http://localhost",
status_code: 200
}
iex(2)> HTTPoison.Handlers.Multipart.decode_body(response)
[
{[{"Content-Type", "application/json"}], "{\"1\": \"first\"}"},
{[{"Content-Type", "application/json"}], "{\"2\": \"second\"}"}
]For more complex queries regarding multipart response parsing, you should follow the hackney docs for the hackney_multipart API.
If you're running on top of hackney (which you probably are) there's a handy way to get detailed request logging:
# Add :runtime_tools to :extra_applications in mix.exs
def application do
[extra_applications: [:logger, :runtime_tools]]
endiex(1)> :hackney_trace.enable(:max, :io)
Just throw this in your code before your HTTPoison call and you'll get low-level log output.
Copyright © 2013-present Eduardo Gurgel <[email protected]>
This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.