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Integrating Custom HttpClient with OpenAI's Fetch Interface - Effect Community

Effect Community•2y ago•

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Integrating Custom HttpClient with OpenAI's Fetch Interface

I'm using a third-party library (OpenAI) that allows you to give it a

fetch

fetch

instance, so I've copied

@effect/platform

@effect/platform

's way of passing in a custom fetch instance (https://github.com/PREreview/coar-notify/blob/e19890b70d3eaf927aa2985f6b186cb435e7bbfd/src/OpenAi.ts#L19-L25). I have customised my

HttpClient

HttpClient

instance (https://github.com/PREreview/coar-notify/blob/e19890b70d3eaf927aa2985f6b186cb435e7bbfd/src/index.ts#L22-L32), but those changes aren't used here. While I could customise my

fetch

fetch

instance to do these changes, I'd rather avoid doing so. Would it be helpful to have a way to wrap

HttpClient

HttpClient

with a

fetch

fetch

interface, or at least provide the parts needed (converting to/from the

fetch

fetch

request and response types)?