consuming/

README

Web - Consuming Web APIs

Learn more about consuming web APIs.

Notes

• The standard library has much of what you need to build services and apps.
• The http package provides the building blocks.
• There are other great packages in the Go ecosystem to help.

Links

https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/
https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/
github.com/dvsekhvalnov/jose2go

Code Review

Default HTTP support: Test
POST calls: Test
PUT calls: Test
Client timeouts: Test
Custom transporter: Test
Signing requests with JSON Web Tokens: Code | Test
Canceling with Context: Test

Exercises

Exercise 1

Call the GitHub API to get a list of contributors for the ardanlabs/gotraining repository.

• The API url is https://api.github.com/repos/ardanlabs/gotraining/contributors
• Docs for the API in general are https://developer.github.com/v3/
• Docs for the contributors endpoint are https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-contributors
• To get around rate limiting you must generate a personal access token at https://github.com/settings/tokens

Exercise Template
Exercise Answer

---

All material is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004.