gcwilliams / async-http-client-scala

An Async HTTP client build on Netty

Async HTTP Client

Build on top of Netty

Example

// 1. create a client
val client = AsyncHttpClient(10)

// 2. get the bbc new page
val firstImage = client.get("http://www.bbc.co.uk/news").chain(page => {

  // 3. parse the page
  val doc = Jsoup.parse(new String(page.response, Charset.forName("utf-8")))

  // 4. get the first image src
  val src = doc.select(".responsive-image img").first().attr("src")

  // 5. get the image
  client.get(src).map(image => image.response.length)
})

// 6. fork task, actually running it
firstImage.fork(size => {

  // 7. print out the image size
  println(s"The size of the first image on the bbc news homepage is ${size}")

  // 8. shutdown the client
  client.shutdown()

}, error => {

  // 9. print any error
  println(error)

  // 10. shutdown the client
  client.shutdown()
})