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Example

This example covers the creation of a service for https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/ public test API with the following functions:

• Get an entry by ID
• List all entries
• Create a new entry
• Delete an entry by ID

Step-by-step

Install httpclient

go get -u github.com/postfinance/httpclient/cmd/httpclient-gen-go

Define a service interface

// PostService interface defines service methods
type PostService interface {
	Get(context.Context, int) (*Post, *http.Response, error)
	List(context.Context) ([]Post, *http.Response, error)
	Create(context.Context, *Post) (*Post, *http.Response, error)
	Delete(context.Context, int) (*http.Response, error)
}

Implement the interface

See jsonplaceholder.go

Generate the httpclient code

httpclient-gen-go -path ./jsonplaceholder -package jsonplaceholder -out ./jsonplaceholder/httpclient.go

Run tests

cd jsonplaceholder
go test -v

Usage

See jsonplaceholder_test.go