The Scala Toolkit

How to send a request with a body?

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    You can require the entire toolkit in a single line:

    //> using toolkit latest

    Alternatively, you can require just a specific version of sttp:

    //> using dep com.softwaremill.sttp.client4::core:4.0.0-M6

    In your build.sbt file, you can add a dependency on the Toolkit:

    lazy val example = project.in(file("."))
  .settings(
    scalaVersion := "3.3.3",
    libraryDependencies += "org.scala-lang" %% "toolkit" % "0.1.7"
  )

    Alternatively, you can require just a specific version of sttp:

    libraryDependencies += "com.softwaremill.sttp.client4" %% "core" % "4.0.0-M6"

    In your build.sc file, you can add a dependency on the Toolkit:

    object example extends ScalaModule {
  def scalaVersion = "3.3.3"
  def ivyDeps =
    Agg(
      ivy"org.scala-lang::toolkit:0.1.7"
    )
}

    Alternatively, you can require just a specific version of sttp:

    ivy"com.softwaremill.sttp.client4::core:4.0.0-M6"

    Sending a request with a string body

    To send a POST request with a string body, you can chain post and body on a quickRequest:

    import sttp.client4.quick._

val response = quickRequest
  .post(uri"https://example.com/")
  .body("Lorem ipsum")
  .send()

println(response.code)
// prints: 200

    import sttp.client4.quick.*

val response = quickRequest
  .post(uri"https://example.com/")
  .body("Lorem ipsum")
  .send()

println(response.code)
// prints: 200

    In a request with string body, sttp adds the Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 header and computes the Content-Length header.

    Binary data

    The body method can also take a Array[Byte], a ByteBuffer or an InputStream.

    val bytes: Array[Byte] = "john".getBytes
val request = quickRequest.post(uri"https://example.com/").body(bytes)

    The binary body of a request is sent with Content-Type: application/octet-stream.

    Learn more in the sttp documentation chapter about request bodies.

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