Handle HTTP Clients & Services

A simple library for composing HTTP clients, and creating services to make HTTP requests. Uses the package:http's Client.

This can be used as an alternative to http client generator libraries like retrofit, and chopper.

Features

Handle has number of features to make HTTP requests flexible, and easy to use:

• Combine different client to create the perfect HTTP client for your needs.
• Compatibility with package:http's Client - You can wrap with existing http Clients, like RetryClient
• Very minimum boilerplate for creating REST requests, and services with no code generation.
• Extensive test suite and benchmarks to ensure reliability, and high performance.

Documentation

See the API documentation for details on the following topics:

• Getting started
• Configuration
• Clients
• Services
• Extensions
• Error handling
• Example

Latest benchmark results

For comparing client performance from this package, I've included benchmarks for this library's clients, and package:http's Client with no external dependency in benchmarks/ directory.

HttpClientListSerializationBenchmark(RunTime): 1788231.5 us.
RestClientListSerializationBenchmark(RunTime): 1745168.5 us.
RestClientListAsyncSerializationBenchmark(RunTime): 1832672.0 us.
HttpClientSingleSerializationBenchmark(RunTime): 1257598.0 us.
RestClientSingleSerializationBenchmark(RunTime): 1257561.0 us.
RestClientSingleAsyncSerializationBenchmark(RunTime): 1262549.0 us.

Benchmarks last updated on 20 June, 2023.