API SDK

A highlevel API client framework for Rust.

• Built on top of reqwest to handle HTTP requests
• Macros to define API and send requests
• Send request as JSON / form / multipart
• Parse response by serde, and extract a part of payload as result value
• Support X-Request-ID and X-Trace-ID/X-Span-ID
• More customizations
  • Rewrite host and port of URLs by using ApiRouter
  • Set Authorization header by using ApiSignature
  • Provide middlewares by integrate reqwest-middleware
  • Mock server response by using MockServer
• Changelog

Motivation

When using reqwest to send API requests to server side, we have to do some common work. Including setting authentication information, parsing request responses, handle exceptions, adding log and tracking information, etc.

For this reason, we often develop some auxiliary functions to achieve the above functions. The design purpose of this crate is to simplify this part of the development work and provide a common design implementation.

Get Start

To define a very simple API, we just need a few lines of code.

use apisdk::{http_api, send, ApiResult};

// Define an API struct
#[http_api("https://www.example.com/api")]
#[derive(Debug, Clone)] // optional
pub struct MyApi;

#[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
pub struct User {}

impl MyApi {
    // Declare a function for public use.
    // It should return ApiResult<T>, which is an alias for Result<T, ApiError>.
    pub async fn get_user(&self, user_id: u64) -> ApiResult<User> {
        // Initiate a GET request with the URL path, and wait for the endpoint to be resolved.
        let req = self.get(format!("/user/{}", user_id)).await?;

        // Send the request to server, and parse it to result.
        send!(req).await
    }
}

To use the API, just follow these steps.

use apisdk::ApiResult;

async fn foo() -> ApiResult<()> {
    // Initiate an API instance with default settings.
    // Or use MyApi::builder().build() to generate a customized instance.
    let api = MyApi::default();

    // Invoke the function to execute HTTP request.
    let user = api.get_user(1).await?;
    
    Ok(())
}

Key Points

http_api and api_method macros

• http_api
  • declare a struct as an API
  • #[http_api("https://api.site/base")]
• api_method
  • (optional) refine an API method

customize API instance

We can use XxxApi::builder() to get an instance of ApiBuilder, and call following functions to customize API instance.

• with_router
  • rewrite host and port
• with_signature
  • set credentials for each request
• with_initialiser & with_middleware
  • support all reqwest-middleware components
• with_log
  • enable/disable logs in processing requests

create HTTP request

The http_api defines several functions for XxxApi to create HTTP request.

• create with HTTP method
  • async fn request(method: Method, path: impl AsRef<str>) -> ApiResult<RequestBuilder>
• quick functions
  • async fn head(path: impl AsRef<str>) -> ApiResult<RequestBuilder>
  • async fn get(path: impl AsRef<str>) -> ApiResult<RequestBuilder>
  • async fn post(path: impl AsRef<str>) -> ApiResult<RequestBuilder>
  • async fn put(path: impl AsRef<str>) -> ApiResult<RequestBuilder>
  • async fn patch(path: impl AsRef<str>) -> ApiResult<RequestBuilder>
  • async fn delete(path: impl AsRef<str>) -> ApiResult<RequestBuilder>
  • async fn options(path: impl AsRef<str>) -> ApiResult<RequestBuilder>
  • async fn trace(path: impl AsRef<str>) -> ApiResult<RequestBuilder>

extends RequestBuilder

This crate re-export RequestBuilder from reqwest-middleware, and provides several useful extensions. We may use req.with_extension() to apply these extensions.

• RequestId
  • set value of X-Request-ID
• TraceId
  • set value of X-Trace-ID and/or X-Span-ID
• MockServer
  • mock the server response by using serde_json::Value

send macros

• send
  • send request, and not detect or process the payload
• send_json
  • send request with JSON payload
• send_form
  • send request with urlencoded form or multipart form
• send_multipart
  • send request with multipart form