Rust Programming Cookbook

How to do it...

We can make web requests in just a few steps:

1. Open a Terminal to create a new project using cargo new web-requests. Use VS Code to open the project directory.
2. First, let's edit Cargo.toml to add the dependencies we are going to use later:

[dependencies]surf = "1.0"reqwest = "0.9"serde = "1"serde_json = "1"runtime = "0.3.0-alpha.6"

3. Let's start importing these external dependencies and setting up some data structs in src/main.rs:

#[macro_use]extern crate serde_json;use surf::Exception;use serde::Serialize;#[derive(Serialize)]struct MyGetParams {    a: u64,    b: String,}

4. surf (https://github.com/rustasync/surf) is a recent crate developed fully async. Let's create a test function to see it in action. First, we create the client ...