Feign: How can I explain team feign is good choice for REST client?

Created on 4 Dec 2018 · 4Comments · Source: OpenFeign/feign

Which advantages brings Feign compared with JAX-RS Client, OkHttp, UniRest, Retrofit, Akka HTTP Client and another?

documentation help wanted

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hellboy81

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I agree with @velo on this and #955. Could we either update the area on the readme with more information or provide a Wiki page with this information? Would you @hellboy81 or any other member be interested in providing that information?

kdavisk6 on 28 May 2019

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Well, a feign client will look like you are talking with a good api.
Also, you can easily mock.

In general, at work, we inject clients on constructors, so, when I'm unit testing my classes, I can easily use mockito to create the client.

One more thing, readability

interface GitHub {
  @RequestLine("GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/contributors")
  List<Contributor> contributors(@Param("owner") String owner, @Param("repo") String repo);
}

much easier to read than

  returnedEvents = client.target(baseUri)
                    .path("all")
                    .request(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
                    .get(new GenericType<List<Event>>() {
            });