Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition

grequests a REST API package for Go

The developers who worked on Python know about the Requests library. It is a clean, short library that is not included in the standard library of Python.

The Go grequests package is inspired by Requests. It provides a simple set of functions, using which we can make API requests such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE from our Go code. Using grequests allows us to encapsulate the in-built HTTP request and response.

Create the project directory and install grequests using the dep tool:

mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/git-user/chapter8/requestExample/touch $GOPATH/src/github.com/git-user/chapter8/requestExample/basicRequest.go

To install the grequests package for Go, run the following dep command:

dep initdep ...