README.md

Apidiesel

Apidiesel is a DSL for building API clients. It is made to be highly readable, easily extensible and to assume as little as possible about your API.

Note This is a fork of the original library apidiesel by @janfoeh. The original is here. This fork is intended to introduce circuit breaking mechanism in the request making, as it is needed for some projects @kloeckner-i.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'apidiesel'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install apidiesel

Usage

Apidiesel consists of three main parts: the base Api, one Action for each API endpoint and Handler plugins for processing incoming and outgoing data.

module Actions
  class GetUsers < Apidiesel::Action
    url path: '/users'

    expects do
      string :firstname, optional: true
      string :lastname, optional: true
      boolean :active, default: true
    end

    responds_with do
      objects :users, wrapped_in: MyUserModel
    end
  end
end

class Api < Apidiesel::Api
  url 'https://foo.example'
  http_method :post

  # times to retry a request before it fails
  retries 3 

  register_actions
end

api = Api.new
api.get_users(firstname: 'Jane', lastname: 'Doe')

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/kloeckner-i/apidiesel.