clj-http
A Clojure HTTP library wrapping the Apache HttpComponents client.
This library has taken over from mmcgrana's clj-http. Please send a pull request or open an issue if you have any problems
Installation
clj-http is available as a Maven artifact from
Clojars:
[clj-http "0.7.6"]
Previous versions available as
[clj-http "0.7.5"]
[clj-http "0.7.4"]
[clj-http "0.7.3"]
Usage
The main HTTP client functionality is provided by the
clj-http.client namespace.
Require it in the REPL:
(require '[clj-http.client :as client])
Require it in your application:
(ns my-app.core
(:require [clj-http.client :as client]))
The client supports simple get, head, put, post, delete,
copy, move, patch and options requests. Responses are returned
as Ring-style response maps:
(client/get "http://google.com")
=> {:status 200
:headers {"date" "Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:03:49 GMT"
"cache-control" "private, max-age=0"
"content-type" "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
...}
:body "<!doctype html>..."
:cookies {"PREF" {:domain ".google.com", :expires #<Date Wed Apr 02 09:10:22 EDT 2014>, :path "/", :value "...", :version 0}}
:trace-redirects ["http://google.com" "http://www.google.com/" "http://www.google.fr/"]}
:trace-redirects will contain the chain of the redirections followed.
More example requests:
(client/get "http://site.com/resources/id")
(client/get "http://site.com/resources/3" {:accept :json})
;; Various options:
(client/post "http://site.com/api"
{:basic-auth ["user" "pass"]
:body "{\"json\": \"input\"}"
:headers {"X-Api-Version" "2"}
:content-type :json
:socket-timeout 1000 ;; in milliseconds
:conn-timeout 1000 ;; in milliseconds
:accept :json})
;; Specifying headers as either a string or collection:
(client/get "http://example.com"
{:headers {"foo" ["bar" "baz"], "eggplant" "quux"}})
;; Set any specific client parameters manually:
(client/post "http://example.com"
{:client-params {"http.protocol.allow-circular-redirects" false
"http.protocol.version" HttpVersion/HTTP_1_0
"http.useragent" "clj-http"}})
;; Need to contact a server with an untrusted SSL cert?
(client/get "https://alioth.debian.org" {:insecure? true})
;; If you don't want to follow-redirects automatically:
(client/get "http://site.come/redirects-somewhere" {:follow-redirects false})
;; Only follow a certain number of redirects:
(client/get "http://site.come/redirects-somewhere" {:max-redirects 5})
;; Throw an exception if redirected too many times:
(client/get "http://site.come/redirects-somewhere" {:max-redirects 5 :throw-exceptions true})
;; Throw an exception if the get takes too long. Timeouts in milliseconds.
(client/get "http://site.come/redirects-somewhere" {:socket-timeout 1000 :conn-timeout 1000})
;; Send form params as a urlencoded body (POST or PUT)
(client/post "http//site.com" {:form-params {:foo "bar"}})
;; Send form params as a json encoded body (POST or PUT)
(client/post "http//site.com" {:form-params {:foo "bar"} :content-type :json})
;; Multipart form uploads/posts
;; takes a vector of maps, to preserve the order of entities, :name
;; will be used as the part name unless :part-name is specified
(client/post "http//example.org" {:multipart [{:name "title" :content "My Awesome Picture"}
{:name "Content/type" :content "image/jpeg"}
{:name "foo.txt" :part-name "eggplant" :content "Eggplants"}
{:name "file" :content (clojure.java.io/file "pic.jpg")}]})
;; Multipart :content values can be one of the following:
;; String, InputStream, File, or a byte-array
;; Some Multipart bodies can also support more keys (like :encoding
;; and :mime-type), check src/clj-http/multipart.clj to see all flags
;; Apache's http client automatically retries on IOExceptions, if you
;; would like to handle these retries yourself, you can specify a
;; :retry-handler. Return true to retry, false to stop trying:
(client/post "http://example.org" {:multipart [["title" "Foo"]
["Content/type" "text/plain"]
["file" (clojure.java.io/file "/tmp/missing-file")]]
:retry-handler (fn [ex try-count http-context]
(println "Got:" ex)
(if (> try-count 4) false true))})
;; Basic authentication
(client/get "http://site.com/protected" {:basic-auth ["user" "pass"]})
(client/get "http://site.com/protected" {:basic-auth "user:pass"})
;; Digest authentication
(client/get "http://site.com/protected" {:digest-auth ["user" "pass"]})
;; OAuth 2
(client/get "http://site.com/protected" {:oauth-token "secret-token"})
;; Query parameters
(client/get "http://site.com/search" {:query-params {"q" "foo, bar"}})
;; "Nested" query parameters
;; (this yields a query string of `a[e][f]=6&a[b][c]=5`)
(client/get "http://site.com/search" {:query-params {:a {:b {:c 5} :e {:f 6})
;; Provide cookies — uses same schema as :cookies returned in responses
;; (see the cookie store option for easy cross-request maintenance of cookies)
(client/get "http://site.com"
{:cookies {"ring-session" {:discard true, :path "/", :value "", :version 0}}})
;; Support for IPv6!
(client/get "http://[2001:62f5:9006:e472:cabd:c8ff:fee3:8ddf]")
The client will also follow redirects on the appropriate 30* status
codes.
The client transparently accepts and decompresses the gzip and
deflate content encodings.
Input coercion
;; body as a byte-array
(client/post "http://site.com/resources" {:body my-byte-array})
;; body as a string
(client/post "http://site.com/resources" {:body "string"})
;; :body-encoding is optional and defaults to "UTF-8"
(client/post "http://site.com/resources"
{:body "string" :body-encoding "UTF-8"})
;; body as a file
(client/post "http://site.com/resources"
{:body (clojure.java.io/file "/tmp/foo") :body-encoding "UTF-8"})
;; :length is optional for passing in an InputStream; if not
;; supplied it will default to -1 to signal to HttpClient to use
;; chunked encoding
(client/post "http://site.com/resources"
{:body (clojure.java.io/input-stream "/tmp/foo")})
(client/post "http://site.com/resources"
{:body (clojure.java.io/input-stream "/tmp/foo") :length 1000})
Output coercion
;; The default output is a string body
(client/get "http://site.com/foo.txt")
;; Coerce as a byte-array
(client/get "http://site.com/favicon.ico" {:as :byte-array})
;; Coerce as something other than UTF-8 string
(client/get "http://site.com/string.txt" {:as "UTF-16"})
;; Coerce as json
(client/get "http://site.com/foo.json" {:as :json})
(client/get "http://site.com/foo.json" {:as :json-string-keys})
;; Coerce as a clojure datastructure
(client/get "http://site.com/foo.clj" {:as :clojure})
;; Try to automatically coerce the output based on the content-type
;; header (this is currently a BETA feature!). Currently supports
;; text, json and clojure (with automatic charset detection)
;; clojure coercion requires "application/clojure" or
;; "application/edn" in the content-type header
(client/get "http://site.com/foo.json" {:as :auto})
;; Return the body as a stream
(client/get "http://site.com/bigrequest.html" {:as :stream})
;; Note that the connection to the server will NOT be closed until the
;; stream has been read
JSON coercion defaults to only an "unexceptional" statuses, meaning
status codes in the #{200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 300 301 302 303
307} range. If you would like to change this, you can send the
:coerce option, which can be set to:
:always ;; always json decode the body
:unexceptional ;; only json decode when not an HTTP error response
:exceptional ;; only json decode when it IS an HTTP error response
The :coerce setting defaults to :unexceptional.
Body decompression
By default, clj-http will add the {"Accept-Encoding" "gzip, deflate"}
header to requests, and automatically decompress the resulting gzip or
deflate stream if the Content-Encoding header is found on the
response. If this is undesired, the {:decompress-body false} option
can be specified:
;; Auto-decompression used: (google requires a user-agent to send gzip data)
(def h {"User-Agent" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1;) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1"})
(def resp (client/get "http://google.com" {:headers h}))
(:orig-content-encoding resp)
=> "gzip" ;; <= google sent response gzipped
;; and without decompression:
(def resp2 (client/get "http://google.com" {:headers h :decompress-body false})
(:orig-content-encoding resp2)
=> nil
If clj-http decompresses something, the "content-encoding" header is
removed from the headers (because the encoding is no longer
true). This allows clj-http to be used as a pass-through proxy with
ring. The original content-encoding is available as
:orig-content-encoding in the response map if Auto-decompression is
enabled.
HTML Meta tag headers
HTML 4.01 allows using the tag <meta http-equiv="..." /> and HTML 5
allows using the tag <meta charset="..." /> to specify a header that
should be treated as an HTTP response header. By default, clj-http
will ignore the body of the response (other than the regular output
coercion), but if you need clj-http to parse the headers out of the
body, you can use the :decode-body-headers option:
;; without decoding body headers (defaults to off):
(:headers (http/get "http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/"))
=> {"server" "Apache",
"content-encoding" "gzip",
"content-type" "text/html",
"date" "Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:02:41 GMT",
"cache-control" "max-age=0, no-cache",
"expires" "Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:02:41 GMT",
"etag" "\"1dfb-2686-4cba2686fb8b1\"",
"pragma" "no-cache",
"connection" "close"}
;; with decoding body headers, notice the content-type,
;; content-style-type and content-script-type headers:
(:headers (http/get "http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/" {:decode-body-headers true}))
=> {"server" "Apache",
"content-encoding" "gzip",
"content-script-type" "text/javascript",
"content-style-type" "text/css",
"content-type" "text/html; charset=Shift_JIS",
"date" "Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:02:59 GMT",
"cache-control" "max-age=0, no-cache",
"expires" "Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:02:59 GMT",
"etag" "\"1dfb-2686-4cba2686fb8b1\"",
"pragma" "no-cache",
"connection" "close"}
This can be used to have clj-http correctly interpret the body's charset by using:
(http/get "http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/" {:decode-body-headers true :as :auto})
=> ;; correctly formatted :body (Shift_JIS charset instead of UTF-8)
Note that this feature is currently beta and uses Crouton to parse the body of the request. If you do not want to use this feature, you can exclude Crouton from clj-http's dependencies without causing any problems like so:
(defproject foo "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0"]
[clj-http "0.6.0" :exclusions [crouton]]])
clj-http will automatically disable the :decode-body-headers option.
Misc
A more general request function is also available, which is useful
as a primitive for building higher-level interfaces:
(defn api-action [method path & [opts]]
(client/request
(merge {:method method :url (str "http://site.com/" path)} opts)))
Exceptions
The client will throw exceptions on, well, exceptional status codes,
meaning all HTTP responses other than #{200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 300 301 302 303 307}. clj-http will throw a
Slingshot Stone that can be
caught by a regular (catch Exception e ...) or in Slingshot's try+
block:
(client/get "http://site.com/broken")
=> ExceptionInfo clj-http: status 404 clj-http.client/wrap-exceptions/fn--583 (client.clj:41)
;; Or, if you would like the Exception message to contain the entire response:
(client/get "http://site.com/broken" {:throw-entire-message? true})
=> ExceptionInfo clj-http: status 404 {:status 404,
:headers {"server" "nginx/1.0.4",
"x-runtime" "12ms",
"content-encoding" "gzip",
"content-type" "text/html; charset=utf-8",
"date" "Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:15 :36 GMT",
"cache-control" "no-cache",
"status" "404 Not Found",
"transfer-encoding" "chunked",
"connection" "close"},
:body "...body here..."}
clj-http.client/wrap-exceptions/fn--584 (client.clj:42
;; You can also ignore HTTP-status-code exceptions and handle them yourself:
(client/get "http://site.com/broken" {:throw-exceptions false})
;; Or ignore an unknown host (methods return 'nil' if this is set to
;; true and the host does not exist:
(client/get "http://aoeuntahuf89o.com" {:ignore-unknown-host? true})
(spacing added by me to be human readable)
Proxies
A proxy can be specified by setting the Java properties:
<scheme>.proxyHost and <scheme>.proxyPort where <scheme> is the
client scheme used (normally 'http' or 'https'). http.nonProxyHosts
allows you to specify a pattern for hostnames which do not require
proxy routing - this is shared for all schemes. Additionally,
per-request proxies can be specified with the proxy-host and
proxy-port options (this overrides http.nonProxyHosts too):
(client/get "http://foo.com" {:proxy-host "127.0.0.1" :proxy-port 8118})
Keystores and Trust-stores
When sending a request, you can specify your own keystore/trust-store to be used:
(client/get "https://example.com" {:keystore "/path/to/keystore.ks"
:keystore-type "jks" ; default: jks
:keystore-pass "secretpass"
:trust-store "/path/to/trust-store.ks"
:trust-store-type "jks" ; default jks
:trust-store-pass "trustpass"})
Cookie stores
clj-http can simplify the maintenance of cookies across requests if it is provided with a cookie store.
(binding [clj-http.core/*cookie-store* (clj-http.cookies/cookie-store)]
(client/post "http://site.com/login" {:form-params {:username "..."
:password "..."}})
(client/get "http://site.com/secured-page")
...)
(The clj-http.cookies/cookie-store function returns a new empty
instance of a default implementation of
org.apache.http.client.CookieStore.)
This will allow cookies to only be written to the cookie store. Cookies from the cookie-store will not automatically be sent with future requests.
If you would like cookies from the cookie-store to automatically be
sent with each request, specify the cookie-store with the
:cookie-store option:
(let [my-cs (clj-http.cookies/cookie-store)]
(client/post "http://site.com/login" {:form-params {:username "..."
:password "..."}
:cookie-store my-cs})
(client/post "http://site.com/update" {:body my-data
:cookie-store my-cs}))
You can also us the get-cookies function to retrieve the cookies
from a cookie store:
(def cs (clj-http.cookies/cookie-store))
(client/get "http://google.com" {:cookie-store cs})
(clojure.pprint/pprint (clj-http.cookies/get-cookies cs))
{"NID"
{:domain ".google.com",
:expires #<Date Tue Oct 02 10:12:06 MDT 2012>,
:path "/",
:value
"58=c387....",
:version 0},
"PREF"
{:domain ".google.com",
:expires #<Date Wed Apr 02 10:12:06 MDT 2014>,
:path "/",
:value
"ID=3ba...:FF=0:TM=133...:LM=133...:S=_iRM...",
:version 0}}
Link headers
clj-http parses any link headers
returned in the response, and adds them to the :links key on the
response map. This is particularly useful for paging RESTful APIs:
(:links (client/get "https://api.github.com/gists"))
=> {:next {:href "https://api.github.com/gists?page=2"}
:last {:href "https://api.github.com/gists?page=22884"}}
Using persistent connections
clj-http can use persistent connections to speed up connections if multiple connections are being used:
(with-connection-pool {:timeout 5 :threads 4 :insecure? false :default-per-route 10}
(get "http://aoeu.com/1")
(post "http://aoeu.com/2")
(get "http://aoeu.com/3")
...
(get "http://aoeu.com/999"))
This is MUCH faster than sequentially performing all requests, because a persistent connection can be used instead creating a new connection for each request.
If you would prefer to handle managing the connection manager yourself, you can create a connection manager yourself and specify it for each request:
(def cm (clj-http.conn-mgr/make-reusable-conn-manager {:timeout 2 :threads 3}))
(def cm2 (clj-http.conn-mgr/make-reusable-conn-manager {:timeout 10 :threads 1}))
(get "http://aoeu.com/1" {:connection-manager cm2})
(post "http://aoeu.com/2" {:connection-manager cm})
(get "http://aoeu.com/3" {:connection-manager cm2})
See the docstring on make-reusable-conn-manager for options and
default values.
Redirects handling
clj-http conforms its behaviour regarding automatic redirects to the
RFC. It means that
redirects on status 301, 302 and 307 are not redirected on
methods other than GET and HEAD. If you want a behaviour closer to
what most browser have, you can set :force-redirects to true in
your request to have automatic redirection work on all methods by
transforming the method of the request to GET.
Custom middleware lists
Sometime it is desirable to run a request with some middleware enabled
and some left out, the with-middleware method provides this
functionality:
(with-middleware [#'clj-http.client/wrap-method
#'clj-http.client/wrap-url
#'clj-http.client/wrap-exceptions]
(get "http://example.com")
(post "http://example.com/foo" {:body (.getBytes "foo")}))
To see available middleware, check the
clj-http.client/default-middleware var, which is a vector of the
default middleware that clj-http
uses. clj-http.client/*current-middleware* is bound to the current
list of middleware during request time.
Debugging
There are four debugging methods you can use:
;; print request info to *out*:
(client/get "http://example.org" {:debug true})
;; print request info to *out*, including request body:
(client/post "http://example.org" {:debug true :debug-body true :body "..."})
;; save the request that was sent in a :request key in the response:
(client/get "http://example.org" {:save-request? true})
;; save the request that was sent in a :request key in the response,
;; including the body content:
(client/get "http://example.org" {:save-request? true :debug-body true})
;; add an HttpResponseInterceptor to the request. This callback
;; is called for each redirects with the following args:
;; ^HttpResponse resp, HttpContext^ ctx
;; this allows low level debugging + access to socket.
;; see http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga/httpcore/apidocs/org/apache/http/HttpResponseInterceptor.html
(client/get "http://example.org" {:response-interceptor (fn [resp ctx] (println ctx))})
Faking clj-http responses
If you need to fake clj-http responses (for things like testing and such), check out the clj-http-fake library.
Design
The design of clj-http is inspired by the
Ring protocol for Clojure HTTP
server applications.
The client in clj-http.core makes HTTP requests according to a given
Ring request map and returns Ring response maps corresponding to the
resulting HTTP response. The function clj-http.client/request uses
Ring-style middleware to layer functionality over the core HTTP
request/response implementation. Methods like clj-http.client/get
are sugar over this clj-http.client/request function.
Optional dependencies
clj-http currently has three optional dependencies, cheshire,
crouton and tools.reader. Any number of them may be removed by
excluding them from the clj-http dependency in your project.clj:
(defproject foo "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.1"]
[clj-http "0.3.4" :exclusions [cheshire crouton
org.clojure/tools.reader]]])
Known issues / Issues you may run into
VerifyError class org.codehaus.jackson.smile.SmileParser overrides final method getBinaryValue...
This is actually caused by your project attempting to use clj-json and cheshire in the same classloader. You can fix the issue by either not using clj-json (and thus choosing cheshire), or specifying an exclusion for clj-http in your project like this:
(defproject foo "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0"]
[clj-http "0.3.4" :exclusions [cheshire]]])
Note that if you exclude cheshire, json decoding of response bodies and json encoding of form-params cannot happen, you are responsible for your own encoding/decoding.
As of clj-http 0.3.5, you should no longer see this, as Cheshire 3.1.0 and clj-json can now live together without causing problems.
clj-http-lite
Like clj-http but need something more lightweight without as many external dependencies? Check out clj-http-lite for a project that can be used as a drop-in replacement for clj-http.
Development
To run the tests:
$ lein deps
$ lein test
Run all tests (including integration):
$ lein test :all
Run tests against 1.2.1, 1.3 and 1.4
$ lein all test
$ lein all test :all
License
Released under the MIT License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
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