HTTP

twilight-http is an HTTP client wrapping all of the documented Discord HTTP API. It is built on top of Reqwest, and supports taking any generic Reqwest client, allowing you to pick your own TLS backend. By default, it uses RusTLS a Rust TLS implementation, but it can be changed to use NativeTLS which uses the TLS native to the platform, and on Unix uses OpenSSL.

Ratelimiting is included out-of-the-box, along with support for proxies.

Features

Deserialization

twilight-gateway supports serde_json and simd-json for deserializing and serializing events.

SIMD

The simd-json feature enables usage of simd-json, which uses modern CPU features to more efficiently deserialize JSON data. It is not enabled by default.

In addition to enabling the feature, you will need to add the following to your <project_root>/.cargo/config:

[build]
rustflags = ["-C", "target-cpu=native"]

TLS

twilight-http has features to enable certain HTTPS TLS connectors.

These features are mutually exclusive. rustls is enabled by default.

Native

The native feature causes the client to use hyper-tls. This will use the native TLS backend, such as OpenSSL on Linux.

RusTLS

The rustls feature causes the client to use hyper-rustls. This enables usage of the RusTLS crate as the TLS backend.

This is enabled by default.

Example

A quick example showing how to get the current user's name:

use std::{env, error::Error};
use twilight_http::Client;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error + Send + Sync>> {
    // Initialize the tracing subscriber.
    tracing_subscriber::fmt::init();

    let client = Client::new(env::var("DISCORD_TOKEN")?);

    let me = client.current_user().exec().await?.model().await?;
    println!("Current user: {}#{}", me.name, me.discriminator);

    Ok(())
}

Links

source: https://github.com/twilight-rs/twilight/tree/main/http

docs: https://docs.rs/twilight-http

crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/twilight-http

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