11 Http client

Ratpack provides its own HttpClient which can be used to make remote HTTP calls. The Ratpack provided HttpClient is fully non-blocking and is a part of the core Ratpack library. Just like the Ratpack server, the HttpClient also uses Netty under the hood and in fact shares the same EventLoopGroup as per Netty best practices.

1.11 Basic GET request

import ratpack.core.http.client.HttpClient;
import ratpack.test.embed.EmbeddedApp;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;

public class Example {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    try (EmbeddedApp remoteApp = EmbeddedApp.fromHandler(ctx -> ctx.render("Hello from remoteApp"))) {
      EmbeddedApp.fromHandler(ctx -> ctx
          .render(
            ctx
              .get(HttpClient.class)
              .get(remoteApp.getAddress())
              .map(response -> response.getBody().getText())
          )
      ).test(httpClient -> 
        assertEquals("Hello from remoteApp", httpClient.getText())
      );
    }
  }
}