Thecentury / FsHttp

A lightweight F# HTTP library by @ronaldschlenker

FsHttp

FsHttp is a .Net HTTP client library for C# and F#. It aims for describing and executing HTTP requests in convenient ways that can be used in production and interactive environments.

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Documentation

Please see FsHttp Documentation site for a detailed documentation.

A Simple Example

An example in F#:

#r "nuget: FsHttp"

open FsHttp

http {
    POST "https://reqres.in/api/users"
    CacheControl "no-cache"
    body
    jsonSerialize
        {|
            name = "morpheus"
            job = "leader"
        |}
}
|> Request.send

An example in C#:

#r "nuget: FsHttp"

using FsHttp.CSharp;

await "https://reqres.in/api/users".Post()
    .CacheControl("no-cache")
    .Body()
    .JsonSerialize(new
        {
            name = "morpheus",
            job = "leader"
        }
    )
    .SendAsync();

Migrating to new versions

For different upgrade paths, please read the Migrations section in the docu.

Building

You need to have the latest .Net 5 SDK installed.

Building binaries, publish, and test

There is a F# script that can be used to perform several build tasks from command line. It can be executed in this way:

PS> dotnet fsi .\build.fsx [task]

Common tasks are:

• build
• test
• publish

Building the documentation

The documentation in ./docs is auto-generated from the files in ./src/Docu. In order to build them, run:

PS> .\docu.ps1

Credits

Parts of the code is taken from the HTTP utilities of FSharp.Data.