gout – Go HTTP Client Library Overview

Update

Added a WithTimeout option to the gout.NewWithOpt interface and changed the behavior so that empty values are no longer ignored for keys.

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gout

gout is an HTTP client written in Go, developed to improve development efficiency.

Features

Support for GET, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, HEAD, OPTIONS methods.

Ability to set HTTP headers (accepting struct, map, array, slice, etc.).

Ability to set URL query parameters (accepting struct, map, array, slice, string, etc.).

Encode request body as JSON (accepting struct, map, string, []byte, etc.).

Encode request body as XML (accepting struct, string, []byte, etc.).

Encode request body as YAML (accepting struct, map, string, []byte, etc.).

Encode request body as Protobuf (accepting struct).

Support for form‑data (accepting struct, map, array, slice, etc.).

Support for x‑www‑form‑urlencoded (accepting struct, map, array, slice, etc.).

Support for sending raw types such as io.Reader, uint, int, string, []byte, float32, float64 to the request body.

Parse response body JSON, XML, YAML into structs (BindJSON/BindXML/BindYAML).

Parse response body directly into io.Writer or primitive types.

Parse response headers into structs.

Performance benchmarking with configurable iteration count, duration, and frequency.

Retry‑backoff mechanism with customizable retry conditions.

Ability to send raw HTTP packets.

Export request as a curl command.

Inject a custom *http.Client.