Any reactive HTTP Scala client?

Question

Is there any really reactive Scala Http client except play's ? By word reactive I mean ability to consume response data in chunks with all that non-blocking goodies on handling that portions of data.

Answer 1

What about spray ? Minimal dependencies and non-blocking data processing with Akka. Look at example . Also there are some chunked samples in scala-spray-examples on github.

Answer 2

Play(2.5) is built on top of Netty . I would suggest spray as well but spray is no longer maintained and has been superseded by Akka HTTP. So, II would suggest you use Akka HTTP or Play. I have to say though, Play is currently working on integrating with Akka HTTP and they currently have an experimental version ready.

If you want to use a standalone reactive http scala client, try Akka HTTP : http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/scala/http/

The upside of using play, even though it brings in a lot of dependencies, they have a really good test framework for the HTTP side. I would suggest you look at the play documentation, as you will realize you won't need much outside of what they already have.