An extrapolation of this into http4k could be a variant of the Client and Request that use an indir...

# http4k

[DALDEI]

An extrapolation of this into http4k could be a variant of the Client and Request that use an indirection of some sort instead of the explicit hostnames

[natpryce]

We do something like this, using filters to replace abstract service URIs with absolute HTTP URLs. This way, there’s no need for a special variant of client or request. It all falls out nicely of HTTP4K’s existing abstractions.

[dave]

yep - you can simply provide a simple filter which will replace the hostname - we do this already in ClientFilters.SetBaseUriFrom. This means that your API client code can just set the path and method, like Request(GET, "/api/bob") and let the underlying httphandler which you are calling do the discovery of the hostname