SimpleHttp

Unlike other projects / libraries, SimpleHttp doesn't have other dependencies

	   
$ mix app.tree      
simplehttp
├── elixir
└── logger
└── elixir

$ mix app.tree
httpotion
├── elixir
├── ssl
│   ├── crypto
│   └── public_key
│       ├── asn1
│       └── crypto
└── ibrowse

$ mix app.tree
httpoison
├── elixir
└── hackney
├── crypto
├── asn1
├── public_key
│   ├── asn1
│   └── crypto
├── ssl
│   ├── crypto
│   └── public_key
├── idna
├── mimerl
├── certifi
├── ssl_verify_fun
│   └── ssl
└── metrics

Hex Installation

1. Add simplehttp to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

```elixir
def deps do
  [{:simplehttp, "~> 0.4.2"}]
end
```

1. Ensure simplehttp is started before your application:

```elixir
def application do
  [applications: [:simplehttp]]
end
```

Usage

Note:You can load HTTPotion into the Elixir REPL by executing this command from the root of your project:

$ iex -S mix

NoteBefore you start to make a request you need to start inet, this can be do calling this function:

SimpleHttp.start

Simple GET Request

    {:ok, response} = SimpleHttp.get "http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1"

    IO.inspect response.status 
    ~s"""
        {'HTTP/1.1', 200, 'OK'}
    """

    IO.inspect response.headers
    ~s"""
   		[{'cache-control', 'public, max-age=14400'}, {'connection', 'keep-alive'},
		 {'content-length', '292'}, {'content-type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8'},
		 {'expires', 'Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:15:00 GMT'},
		 {'set-cookie',
		  '__cfduid=d42; expires=Thu, 31-Aug-17 18:15:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.typicode.com; HttpOnly'},
		 {'cf-ray', '2db27722e62f0479-FRA'}] 
    """   

    IO.puts response.body
	~s"""
		{
		  "userId": 1,
		  "id": 1,
		  "title": "sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit",
		  "body": "bla bla"
		}
	"""

GET Request with query params

    {:ok, response} = SimpleHttp.get "http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1", [
      query_params: [
        postId: 1
      ]
    ]

    IO.inspect response.status 
    IO.inspect response.headers
    IO.puts response.body

POST with JSON

    {:ok, response} = SimpleHttp.post "http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts", [
      body: "{\"name\":\"foo.example.com\"}",
      content_type: "application/json",
      timeout: 1000,
      connect_timeout: 1000
    ]

    IO.inspect response.status 
    IO.inspect response.headers
    IO.puts response.body

POST with params

    {:ok, response} = SimpleHttp.post "http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts", [
      params: [
        title: "title is present here",
        message: "hello world!"
      ],
      content_type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
      timeout: 1000,
      connect_timeout: 1000
    ]

    IO.inspect response.status 
    IO.inspect response.headers
    IO.puts response.body