Creating your first REST client

Today, most applications that communicate with servers use RESTful services. Based on our needs, we consume these services through JavaScript, jQuery, or through a REST client.

In this recipe, we will write a REST client using the https://gopkg.in/resty.v1 package, which itself is inspired by the Ruby rest client to consume the RESTful services.

Getting ready…

Run http-rest-get.go, which we created in one of our previous recipes, in a separate terminal, executing the following command:

$ go run http-rest-get.go

Note

See the Creating your first HTTP GET method recipe.

Verify whether the /employees service is running locally on port 8080 by executing the following command:

$ curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/employees

This should return the following response:

[{"id":"1","firstName":"Foo","lastName":"Bar"},{"id":"2","firstName":"Baz","lastName":"Qux"}]

How to do it…

1. Install the github.com/gorilla/mux and gopkg.in/resty.v1 packages using the go get command, as follows:

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