katipo

An HTTP library for Erlang built around libcurl-multi and libevent.

Status

Alpha 0.1.1

Usage

{ok, _} = application:ensure_all_started(katipo).
Url = <<"https://example.com">>.
ReqHeaders = [{<<"User-Agent">>, <<"katipo">>}].
Opts = #{headers => ReqHeaders,
         body => <<"0d5cb3c25b0c5678d5297efa448e1938">>,
         connecttimeout_ms => 5000,
         proxy => <<"http://127.0.0.1:9000">>,
         sslverifyhost => false,
         sslverifypeer => false},
{ok, #{status := 200,
       headers := RespHeaders,
       cookiejar := CookieJar,
       body := RespBody}} = katipo:post(Url, Opts).

Or passing the entire request as a map

{ok, _} = application:ensure_all_started(katipo).
ReqHeaders = [{<<"User-Agent">>, <<"katipo">>}].
Req = #{url => <<"https://example.com">>.
        method => post,
        headers => ReqHeaders,
        body => <<"0d5cb3c25b0c5678d5297efa448e1938">>,
        connecttimeout_ms => 5000,
        proxy => <<"http://127.0.0.1:9000">>,
        sslverifyhost => false,
        sslverifypeer => false},
{ok, #{status := 200,
       headers := RespHeaders,
       cookiejar := CookieJar,
       body := RespBody}} = katipo:req(Req).

Why

We wanted a compatible and high-performance HTTP client so took advantage of the 15+ years of development that has gone into libcurl. To allow large numbers of simultaneous connections libevent is used along with the libcurl-multi interface.

Documentation

API

-type method() :: get | post | put | head | options.

katipo:Method(URL :: binary()).
katipo:Method(URL :: binary(), Options :: map()).

Request options

Option	Type	Default
`headers`	`[{binary(), iodata()}]`	`[]`
`cookiejar`	opaque (returned in response)	`[]`
`body`	`iodata()`	`<<>>`
`connecttimeout_ms`	`pos_integer()`	30000
`followlocation`	`boolean()`	`false`
`ssl_verifyhost`	`boolean()`	`true`
`ssl_verifypeer`	`boolean()`	`true`
`capath`	`binary()`	`undefined`
`timeout_ms`	`pos_integer()`	30000
`maxredirs`	`non_neg_integer()`	9
`proxy`	`binary()`	`undefined`

Responses

{ok, #{status => pos_integer(),
       headers => headers(),
       cookiejar => cookiejar(),
       body => body()}}

{error, #{code => atom(), message => binary()}}

Application config

Option	Type	Default	Note
`pipelining`	`boolean()`	`false`	HTTP pipelining
`max_pipeline_length`	`non_neg_integer()`	100
`pool_size`	`pos_integer()`	`erlang:system_info(schedulers)`	Typically one port executable per core
`pool_type`	`round_robin	hash`	`round_robin`

Metrics

ok
error
total_time
curl_time
namelookup_time
connect_time
appconnect_time
pretransfer_time
starttransfer_time

Dependencies

Ubuntu Trusty

sudo apt-get install git libwxgtk2.8-0 libwxbase2.8-0 libevent-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

wget http://packages.erlang-solutions.com/site/esl/esl-erlang/FLAVOUR_1_esl/esl-erlang_18.0-1~ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i esl-erlang_18.0-1~ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb

OSX

brew install --with-c-ares --with-nghttp2 curl
brew install libevent

Building

make
make test