dghubble/sling

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1720 stars · 121 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Sling is a Go HTTP client library for creating and sending API requests. It stores request properties (method, path, headers, query params, body) to simplify building API clients and decoding JSON success/failure responses.

Use cases

• build a Go client for a REST API
• send HTTP requests with struct-encoded query parameters
• decode JSON API responses into structs
• compose reusable request builders with base URLs and paths
• handle JSON error responses from APIs

When to choose

• you're writing a Go client wrapper for an HTTP/REST API
• you want a lightweight layer over net/http with struct-based query and body encoding
• you need composable request builders with shared base URLs and headers

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured HTTP client with retries, circuit breaking, or service discovery
• you're not working in Go
• you need GraphQL or gRPC client support rather than REST

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client serialization middleware web-development apis developer-tools go cross-platform rest-client api-client request-builder http

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