Doing HTTP request in Scala

Question

I am trying to issue a simple POST request to a webservice which returns some XML in Scala.

It seems that Dispatch is the standard library used for this task, but I

Answer 1

You could use spray-client. The documentation is lacking (it took me some digging to find out how to make GET requests with query parameters) but it's a great option if you are already using spray. And the documentation is better than dispatch.

We're using it at AI2 over dispatch because the operators are less symbolic and we're already using spray/actors.

import spray.client.pipelining._

val url = "http://youruri.com/yo"
val pipeline: HttpRequest => Future[HttpResponse] = sendReceive

// Post with header and parameters
val responseFuture1: Future[String] = pipeline(Post(Uri(url) withParams ("param" -> paramValue), yourPostData) map (_.entity.asString)

// Post with header
val responseFuture2: Future[String] = pipeline(Post(url, yourPostData)) map (_.entity.asString)