[go-nuts] Looking for a REST/HTTP-Api client

Haven't used it but you could try

http://code.google.com/p/gorest/source/browse/ - looks to be a good set of
featured code and includes a client library.

Have you tried the "net/http" package? http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/

The standard package has enough for me. And you can use the "encoding/json"
package for JSON unmarshalling.

http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#example_Unmarshal

Pretty straight forward to execute a get or post on a URL,

resp, err := http.Get("http://example.com/")
...
resp, err := http.Post("http://example.com/upload", "image/jpeg", &buf)

  return a byte[] and unmarshall it into whatever type you like:

type Animal struct {
Name string
Order string
}
var animals []Animal
err := json.Unmarshal(resp, &animals)

  I suppose in your case a map. I don't think its going to get much simpler
than that :-). Happy coding

FWIW you might check out my restclient package:
https://github.com/jmcvetta/restclient

If you don't know the JSON response format you expect, you may be better
off unmarshalling into map[string]json.RawMessage.

Any update to this thread. I am looking for A simple HTTP and REST client
for Go like rest-client <https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client>(ruby).

Simple HTTP and REST client for Go - https://github.com/go-resty/resty

Kindly have a look and share your feedback.