Mastering Rust - Second Edition

hyper as a client – building a URL shortener client

Now that we have our URL shortener service ready, let's explore the client side of hyper. Although we can build a web UI that we can use for shortening URLs, we'll keep it simple and build a Command-Line Interface (CLI) tool. The CLI can be used to pass any URL that needs to be shortened. In response, we'll get back the shortened URL from our hyperurl server.

While hyper is recommended for building complex web applications, a lot of setup is involved every time you need to create a handler service, register it, and run it in a runtime instance. When building smaller tools, such as a CLI application that needs to make a few GET requests, all of these steps become overkill. Fortunately, we ...