What is this?
Resty is a simple HTTP, REST, and SSE client library for Go — you add it to your Go project to call web services.
Resty is a simple HTTP, REST, and SSE client library for Go — you add it to your Go project to call web services.Is it a library I import into my Go code, or a command-line tool?It is a library: you import the module and call it from your own Go code. There is nothing to run or install separately, and it has been a proper Go module since v1.10.0.
It is a library: you import the module and call it from your own Go code. There is nothing to run or install separately, and it has been a proper Go module since v1.10.0.How do I get it into my project?Run go get github.com/go-resty/resty/v2 and import it in your code; you need Go 1.23 or newer. The API reference lives on godoc.
Run go get github.com/go-resty/resty/v2 and import it in your code; you need Go 1.23 or newer. The API reference lives on godoc.There are v1, v2, and v3 — which one do I pick?The three major lines have different import paths: v3 is the newest, served from the resty.dev/v3 vanity URL; v2 is the github.com/go-resty/resty/v2 module; the older v1 series ships via gopkg.in and is described as stable for production.
The three major lines have different import paths: v3 is the newest, served from the resty.dev/v3 vanity URL; v2 is the github.com/go-resty/resty/v2 module; the older v1 series ships via gopkg.in and is described as stable for production.Can I use it for free, including in commercial projects?The code is released under the MIT license, so it is free for any use including commercial; only the documentation and website are under Apache-2.0.
The code is released under the MIT license, so it is free for any use including commercial; only the documentation and website are under Apache-2.0.What can it do beyond plain GET and POST requests?It ships retry with backoff, a circuit breaker, middleware support, HTTP tracing, curl-command logging, digest authentication, redirect control, and client-side load balancing through service discovery with SRV records.
It ships retry with backoff, a circuit breaker, middleware support, HTTP tracing, curl-command logging, digest authentication, redirect control, and client-side load balancing through service discovery with SRV records.Is it battle-tested enough for production?Resty has been around since 2015 and has roughly 11.8k GitHub stars. Versioning strictly follows Semantic Versioning, so upgrades between releases are predictable.
Resty has been around since 2015 and has roughly 11.8k GitHub stars. Versioning strictly follows Semantic Versioning, so upgrades between releases are predictable.Which topics is it in?rest-client, circuit-breaker, service-discovery, golang-library, sse, rest, load-balancer, http-client, middleware, http, golang, rest-api
rest-client, circuit-breaker, service-discovery, golang-library, sse, rest, load-balancer, http-client, middleware, http, golang, rest-api