Goals

The ultimate goal is to enable developers to easily build awesome client SDKs for their APIs.

Easy to use

• Create HTTP requests using familiar domain specific API semantics
• Declaratively define response handling behavior
• Plug-in and forget payload decoding

Quick to create

• Enable standard HTTP behaviour by assembling/configuring components
• Make it easy to implement HTTP specification compliant clients
• Provide out of the box functionality for redirection, credential management, retry handling, local caching, conditional requests, long request management

More reliable and more flexible

• Make testing of request creation and response handling simple without needing to mock the network
• Allow all SDK functionality to be incrementally “opt-in” or “opt-out”
• Make it easy to mashup multiple APIs
• Support building reactive clients
• Easily support hypermedia APIs