lecaillon / Restack

Restack is an easy to declare and inject, autogenerated proxy for an HTTP service.

Restack

Restack is an easy to declare and inject, autogenerated proxy for an HTTP service. The idea is to make a full featured resilient HTTP client. It's inspired by the David Fowler's project RestSample and forked from Ryan Nowak work on Kickr.

Its implementation is based on:

• refit
• Polly
• consul

Example of the refit / Polly support

1. Define an interface for your rest service.

   public interface IGeoApi
   {
       [Get("/regions")]
       Task<IEnumerable<Region>> GetRegionsAsync();
   }

2. Configure the URL for your service and add some http request headers and policies.

   public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
   {
       services.AddMvc();
       
       services.AddRestack() // configure Restack HttpClientFactory
               .AddPolly();  // configure Polly
   
       services.AddRestackGlobalHeaders(o => o.Headers.Add("user-agent", "myagent"));
   
       services.AddRestClient<IGeoApi>("https://geo.api.gouv.fr")
               .AddRestackHeaders<IGeoApi>(o => o.Headers.Add("api-key", "xxxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxx"))
               .AddRestackPolicy<IGeoApi>(b => b.RetryAsync())
               .AddRestackPolicy<IGeoApi>(b => b.CircuitBreakerAsync(1, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5)));
   }

3. Consume the interface via RestClient<T>.

   public class HomeController : Controller
   {
       private readonly IGeoApi _geoApi;
   
       public HomeController(IRestClient<IGeoApi> geoApiClient)
       {
           _geoApi = geoApiClient.Client;
       }
   
       [HttpGet("/")]
       public async Task<IActionResult> Get()
       {
           var regions = await _geoApi.GetRegionsAsync();
   
           return Ok(regions);
       }
   }

Example of the ASP.NET MVC HttpClient param binding support

1. Configure some http request headers for the "github" named http client".

   public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
   {
       services.AddMvc()
               .AddRestackModelBinder(); // configure Restack MVC
       
       services.AddRestack(); // configure Restack HttpClientFactory
   
       services.AddRestackGlobalHeaders(o => o.Headers.Add("user-agent", "myagent"));
       services.AddRestackHeaders("github", o => o.Headers.Add("Accept", "application/vnd.github.v3+json"));
   }

2. Consume the HttpClient.

   public class HomeController : Controller
   {
       public async Task<IActionResult> Index([HttpClientName("github")]HttpClient client)
       {
           var response = await client.GetAsync("https://api.github.com/users/lecaillon");
           ...
       }
   }