Added first take on how to get and deserialize a github release. I dont know if it works yet, but i will guard it by a test with httpmock.

application/src/request.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
 use crate::configuration::VcsType;
-use crate::request::models::Current;
+use crate::request::models::{Current, GithubRelease};
 use crate::{Print, Settings};
 
 pub fn init<'a>(settings: &'a Settings, console: &'a dyn Print) -> RequestHandler<'a> {
@@ -25,12 +27,22 @@ impl<'a> RequestHandler<'a> {
     pub fn execute(&self) {
         let currents = self.request_gateway.get_currents();
 
-        // fetch release page from provider
-        let response = reqwest::blocking::get("").unwrap();
+        for current in currents.iter() {
+            let releases_api_url = format!(
+                "{}/repos/{}/{}/releases", // api_root_url contains protocol - this is very much hard coded to Github right now, so i wont make any fancy factory or something. When there is added another provider i will think on how to do this the correct way
+                current.api_root_url, current.owner_name, current.repo_name
+            );
 
-        // convert to obj
-        // compare
-        // send alert
+            let release = reqwest::blocking::get(releases_api_url)
+                .unwrap()
+                .json::<GithubRelease>()
+                .unwrap();
+
+            // compare
+            println!("Got release {:?}", release);
+        }
+
+        // send alerts
     }
 }
 
@@ -73,6 +85,12 @@ impl<'a> RequestGateway<'a> {
 pub mod models {
     use crate::configuration::VcsType;
 
+    #[derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize, Debug)]
+    pub struct GithubRelease {
+        pub tag_name: String,
+        pub name: String,
+    }
+
     pub struct Current {
         pub name: String,
         pub owner_name: String,