REST-in-peace: New Declarative REST Client Library Generates Java API Clients from Interfaces

A developer has released REST-in-peace (RIP), an open-source declarative REST client for Java designed to eliminate repetitive HTTP boilerplate. Developers describe an API as an annotated interface, and RIP produces a working implementation without manual HttpClient setup, JSON parsing, or status-code checks. The library generates code at compile time via an annotation processor, with a reflective proxy available as a fallback, and supports GraalVM native images without hand-written reflection configuration. Built-in resilience features such as retries with backoff, circuit breakers, bulkheads, idempotency keys, caching, and an interceptor chain are configured through annotations, with additional Spring Boot and reactive support.
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