Akka Http Client :Custom headers
Solution 1
try do it simply you can use the methods on HttpMessage with RawHeaders instead:
HttpRequest(GET, "/example.com/some")
.withHeaders(
RawHeader("X-CSRF-TOKEN", ...))
Solution 2
You should use scala.collection.immutable.Seq
instead of the not immutable one
Also don't forget to set the renderInRequests
and/or renderInResponses
to true, otherwise your headers will disappear
Yadu Krishnan
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Updated on June 18, 2022Comments
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Yadu Krishnan about 2 years
I am trying to use Akka-Http for invoking REST url. I am following this example from the akka documentation. Using this I am able to make the rest call. But I am not able to find out how to add custom request headers. I tried using ModeledCustomHeader, but still request is not having header. Here is my example.
final class ApiTokenHeader(token: String) extends ModeledCustomHeader[ApiTokenHeader] { override def renderInRequests = false override def renderInResponses = false override val companion = ApiTokenHeader override def value: String = token } object ApiTokenHeader extends ModeledCustomHeaderCompanion[ApiTokenHeader] { override val name = "apiKey" override def parse(value: String) = Try(new ApiTokenHeader(value)) }
This is how I am invoking,
def invokeHttpRequest(cmd: WSRequestCommand) = { val s: HttpRequest = HttpRequest(uri = cmd.url).addHeader(ApiTokenHeader(cmd.apiKey)) sender ! http.singleRequest(s) }
Instead of addHeader, i tried with addHeaders(), but Seq(ApiTokenHeader) is not working as it is giving compilation error.
val s: HttpRequest = HttpRequest(uri = cmd.url, headers = Seq(ApiTokenHeader(cmd.apiKey)))
Error:(55, 66) type mismatch; found : Seq[com.myapp.http.core.ApiTokenHeader] required: scala.collection.immutable.Seq[akka.http.scaladsl.model.HttpHeader] val s: HttpRequest = HttpRequest(uri = cmd.url, headers = Seq(ApiTokenHeader(cmd.apiKey))) //.addHeader(ApiTokenHeader(cmd.apiKey))
Can someone help me to add multiple custom headers for my request ? What am I doing wrong here ?