Version 5.0

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)
Info

Setting up a gateway assumes that all registered relations will use the uri as the base_path for all requests.

Relations

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

Info

By defining schemas you tell ROM which attributes you're interested in, everything else will be rejected from the original responses.

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.

Info

Your custom handlers must be compatible with the required interface. Refer to the built-in JSON handlers to get the idea.

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