Simple and concise HTTP client library for Scala

Question

I need a mature HTTP client library that is idiomatic to scala, concise in usage, simple semantics. I looked at the Apache HTTP and the Scala Dispatch and numerous new libra

Answer 1

I did a comparison of most major HTTP client libraries available

Dispatch, and a few others libraries, are not maintained anymore. The only serious ones currently are spray-client and Play! WS.

spray-client is a bit arcane in its syntax. play-ws is quite easy to use :

(build.sbt)

libraryDependencies += "com.typesafe.play" %% "play-ws" % "2.4.3"

(basic usage)

val wsClient = NingWSClient()
wsClient
  .url("http://wwww.something.com")
  .get()
  .map { wsResponse =>
    // read the response
}