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

Besides Dispatch there is not much out there. scalaz had a attempt at building a functional http client. But it is outdated for a while an no version of it exists in the scalaz7 branch. Additionally there is a useful wrapper of the ning async-http-client within the playframework. There your can do calls like:

WS.url("http://example.com/feed").get()
WS.url("http://example.com/item").post("content")

You can use this API as inspiration if you don't use play! in your project and dislike the Dispatch API.