HTTP

ROM provides an abstract HTTP adapter that you can use to build HTTP client libraries. It provides powerful core features that work out-of-the-box. You have access to relation schemas, custom attribute types, aliasing, auto-mapping to structs, using custom struct namespaces and more.

Requests and responses can be handled by the built-in handlers, or you can register your own.

Installing

Depends on: ruby v2.4.0 or greater

To install rom-http add the following to your Gemfile.

gem 'rom-http', '~> 0.8'

Afterwards either load rom-http through your bundler setup or manually in your custom script like so:

require 'rom-http'

Once loaded the http Adapter will register itself with ROM and become available for immediate use via the :http identifier.

Connection

When you set up an HTTP gateway, you need to specify at the URI. Let's say we want to connect to GitHub API. To configure a gateway:

config = ROM::Configuration.new(:http, uri: "https://api.github.com", handlers: :json)

Relations

When you define relations for HTTP adapter, you need to specify the schemas as there's no way to infer them.

Here's an example how you could define a relation to fetch organizations from GitHub:

module GitHub
  module Resources
    class Organizations < ROM::Relation[:http]
      schema(:orgs) do
        attribute :id, Types::JSON::Integer
        attribute :name, Types::JSON::String
        attribute :created_at, Types::JSON::Time
        attribute :updated_at, Types::JSON::Time
      end

      def by_name(name)
        append_path(name)
      end
    end
  end
end

config.register_relation(GitHub::Resources::Organizations)

rom = ROM.container(config)

Now we can use our relation to query GitHub API:

orgs = rom.relations[:orgs]

orgs.by_name('rom-rb').one
# {:id=>4589832, :name=>"rom-rb", :created_at=>2013-06-01 22:03:54 UTC, :updated_at=>2019-04-03 14:36:48 UTC}

orgs.with(auto_struct: true).by_name('rom-rb').one
# #<ROM::Struct::Org id=4589832 name="rom-rb" created_at=2013-06-01 22:03:54 UTC updated_at=2019-04-03 14:36:48 UTC>

Handlers

Request and response handlers can be registered via ROM::HTTP::Handlers object:

ROM::HTTP::Handlers.register(:my_handlers,
  request: MyRequestHandler,
  response: MyResponseHandler
)

Then you can use :my_handlers when setting up a gateway.

Learn more

• API documentation