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

Using my Requests-Scala library:

// Mill
ivy"com.lihaoyi::requests:0.1.8"
// SBT
"com.lihaoyi" %% "requests" % "0.1.8"

This is as simple as

val r = requests.get("https://api.github.com/users/lihaoyi")

r.statusCode
// 200

r.headers("content-type")
// Buffer("application/json; charset=utf-8")

r.text
// {"login":"lihaoyi","id":934140,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjkzNDE0MA==",...

val r = requests.post("http://httpbin.org/post", data = Map("key" -> "value"))

val r = requests.put("http://httpbin.org/put", data = Map("key" -> "value"))

val r = requests.delete("http://httpbin.org/delete")

val r = requests.head("http://httpbin.org/head")

val r = requests.options("http://httpbin.org/get")