CBAM.HTTP

CBAM.HTTP

The CBAM.HTTP project extends the abstractions in CBAM.Abstractions project to provide HTTPConnection which allows executing HTTPStatements on it. The HTTPStatement is built so that it allows either sending one HTTPRequest or it has callback to generate HTTPRequests that will be sent until the callback returns null.

The HTTP API itself is also within this project (this may change in the future). The CBAM.HTTP.HTTPMessageFactory class contains factory methods to obtain instances of HTTP messages. This API is extremely minimalistic, which also allows maximum versatility.

Why some existing HTTP API was not chosen to be used in this project?

The API in System.Net.Http namspace was considered, but creating System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessages is annoyingly difficult to do efficiently, and that namespace is also extremely bound to System.Net.Http.HttpClient, which is not suitable for this project. Furthermore, the System.Net.Http namespace is outdated and overly complex for this purpose.

The alternative in .NET Core world would be Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http namspace, but it represents HTTP protocol from server point of view, and thus the API it exposes it not suitable for this project.

Distribution

See NuGet package for binary distribution.