kivra/restclient

This system is an Erlang HTTP client library that provides a robust interface for making RESTful requests. It supports a wide variety of data formats, including JSON, XML, multipart bodies, and binary data, with configurable response parsing. The library includes built-in features for distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry, automatic request retries, and comprehensive test coverage to ensure reliability.

The client library has been refactored to support a broader range of request and response types. Users can now send and receive multipart bodies (multi), PNG images, and percent-encoded data in addition to JSON and XML. The API accepts binary URLs and headers, and the \return\_maps\ option allows JSON and form-encoded responses to be returned as maps instead of proplists. The library now integrates OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and includes retry logic via the \retries\ option. Additionally, the PATCH HTTP method is now supported, and the underlying JSON library has been switched to the OTP standard library \json\ module.

src · high confidence

The library now requires Erlang/OTP 27 or later, as JSON handling has been switched to the standard library \json\ module. Additionally, the HTTP client dependency has been upgraded to Hackney v4 (specifically 4.7.4), which is backwards compatible with v1 usage but represents a significant underlying change. The project also drops support for older build tools like rebar2 and erlang.mk in favor of rebar3, and introduces code formatting via erlfmt.

(repo-wide) · high confidence

Added a new test suite covering the \restc\ HTTP client and \mochiweb\_util\ utilities. The tests include property-based checks for URL construction (\prop\_restc\) and JSON/form body encoding/decoding with the new \return\_maps\ option (\prop\_restc\_body\), as well as functional tests for request retries, status code handling, body encoding types (JSON, percent, XML), and response decoding behavior (\restc\_SUITE\).

test · high confidence

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• CAI 56 → 55 (-1.0)
• Rubric changed (rubric-2026.09.12 → rubric-2026.09.18) — scores are not directly comparable.

• Code Health 100 → 100 (+0.0)
• Architecture 69 → 69 (+0.0)
• Maturity 37 → 37 (+0.0)
• Readiness 64 → 61 (-3.7)
• Security 100 → 100 (+0.0)

• Coverage not measured — no coverage collector is wired up
• Documentation: no licence statement (README.md)
• Off-boarding risk: anonymized user #1

• Off-boarding risk: anonymized user #1
• Outdated: hackney

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

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