Creating your first REST client

Today, most applications that communicate with servers use RESTful services. Based on our needs, we consume these services through JavaScript, jQuery, or through a REST client.

In this recipe, we will write a REST client using the https://gopkg.in/resty.v1 package, which itself is inspired by the Ruby rest client to consume the RESTful services.

Getting ready...

Run http-rest-get.go, which we created in one of our previous recipes, in a separate terminal, executing the following command:

$ go run http-rest-get.go

See the Creating your first HTTP GET method recipe.

Verify whether the /employees service is running locally on port 8080 by executing the following command:

$ curl -X GET http://localhost...