Mrthdrb

To consume REST services there is a lot of boilerplate code needed:

1. Build Apex Objects to model the responses


2. Code to deserialize REST responses to those classes


3. Handling of HTTP requests, responses and errors


4. ...

Did anyone come up with patterns or best practices codified into an open source library or framework that one could just reuse in a similar project without reinventing the callout-wheel over an over again?

Like the zillions of trigger-frameworks that exist as repos on Github...

The ffhttp library should do the trick: https://github.com/financialforcedev/ffhttp-core

It includes error handling, redirections, building header fields, oauth, mime attachments and more.

EDIT - Sample code

Say you want to consume the JSONPlaceholder /users rest resource.
You could create a Named Credential for the URL.

Then you can use ffhttp to make the request, handle the failure or successful response and deserialize into the intended format. FFHTTP only includes an OAuth client but it's pretty simple to create your own...

public with sharing class ffhttpSample 

 /*
 * DTO for remote object result
 */
 private class RemoteUser 
 Integer id;
 String name;
 String username;
 String email;
 

 /*
 * Vanilla HTTP request
 */
 public static RemoteUser[] getUsers() 
 Http http = new Http();

 HttpRequest request = new HttpRequest();
 request.setEndpoint('callout:JSONPlaceholder/users');
 request.setMethod('GET');

 HttpResponse response = http.send(request); 
 if (response.getStatusCode() == 200) 
 return (RemoteUser[])JSON.deserialize(response.getBody(), List<RemoteUser>.class);
 else 
 System.debug(response.getStatus());
 return new RemoteUser[];
 
 

 /*
 * FFHTTP request
 */
 public static RemoteUser[] getUsersFfhttp() 
 SimpleClient client = new SimpleClient();
 client.setCredentials(new ffhttp_Client.NamedCredentials('JSONPlaceholder'));

 SimpleClientRequest request = new SimpleClientRequest(
 client,
 '/users',
 ffhttp_Client.REQUEST_METHOD_GET,
 new ffhttp_JsonDeserializer(List<RemoteUser>.class));

 // Execute and parse the response.
 // Alternatively you can use executeUnparsed() to return the response body as a String
 return (RemoteUser[])request.execute();
 

 /*
 * FFHTTP client implementations
 */
 private class SimpleClient extends ffhttp_Client.AbstractClient 
 private class SimpleClientRequest extends ffhttp_Client.AbstractClientRequest 
 SimpleClientRequest(IAbstractClient client, String endpoint, String requestMethod, ffhttp_IDeserialize deserializer) 
 super(client, endpoint, requestMethod, null, deserializer);