Investigate whether we would want to deprecate `HTTPRequest` in favor of `swift-http-types`
- Dominant language
- Swift
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- 14
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Description
Apple [just announced](https://www.swift.org/blog/introducing-swift-http-types) a new package containing client- and server-independent HTTP types, which we should probably recommend to downstream consumers. Conveniences such as fetching JSON, HTML or XML documents could then be built on top of their `HTTPRequest` (which looks quite similar to our implementation too).
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Research direction
Start by comparing this library's HTTPRequest implementation with the HTTP types in swift-http-types, then review the package's current downstream-facing usage. Determine whether deprecation is appropriate and document the recommendation for consumers, including how JSON, HTML, or XML conveniences would relate to the replacement.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- api, networking
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100