Where do you see hurl in the next 2 years?
A favorite of mine is to be available through official `apt`: there has been some work but it's kind of stuck. The Debian integration is the more difficult integration we have to deal. It's not Debian fault, there are a lot of documentation but we've struggled a lot and fail to understand the process.
Those basically go in the form
POST http://localhost:8080/api/foo
Content-Type: application/json
{ "some": "body" }
We use a bespoke bash script to run these .http file with cURL, and then compare the outputs with jq, log success/failure to console, and write "actual.json"
Can I use HURL in a similar way? Essentially an IDE-runnable example HTTP request that references a JSON file as the expected output?
And then run HURL over a directory of these files?
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
Which is a banger VS Code extension for all sorts of http xyz testing.
(After I have seen the IntelliJ one from a colleague I was searching for one like that in neovim. That's the best one I found. It's not perfect, but it works.
Edit: The tool from OP looks very neat though. I will try it out. Might be a handy thing for a few prepared tests that I run frequently
It is targeted toward more postman crowd though. May not be as lightweight.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/12/http-client-cli-run-...
I don't really feel the need for a curl replacement. In the past I've used httpie which is pretty slick but I end up falling back to writing tests in python using requests library.
Maybe I'm not the target audience here, but I should still say something nice I guess. It's nice that it's written in Rust, and open source tooling is in need of fresh projects ever since everyone started bunkering up against the AI monolith scraping all their work. We should celebrate this kind of project, I just wish I had a use for it.
Regarding curl, Hurl is just adding some syntax to pass data from request to request and add assert to responses. For a one time send & forget request, curl is the way, but if you've a kind of workflow (like accessing an authentified resource) Hurl is worth a try. Hurl uses libcurl under the hood and you've an option `--curl` to get a list of curl commands.
Is there a different POST request in the readme or are you saying that this example is going to send the "user" and "password" params in the request body?
> POST https://example.org/login?user=toto&password=1234
That seems really surprising to me - how would you then send a POST request that includes query string parameters? The documentation on form parameters [1] suggests there's an explicit syntax for sending form-encoded request parameters
POST https://acmecorp.net/login?user=toto&password=1234
POST https://acmecorp.net/login
[Form]
user: toto
password: 1234
[Captures]
csrf_token: xpath "normalize-space(//meta[@name='_csrf_token']/@content)"
{{csrf_token}}
We had a test suite using Runscope, I hated that changes weren't versioned controlled. Took a little grunt work and I converted them in Hurl (where were you AI?) and got rid of Runscope.
Now we can see who made what change when and why. It's great.
première fois que je vois qqch de cool sortir d'orange.
The deficiencies in huel with client state management is not easy to fix.
What I'd like is full client state control with better variable management and use.
For my last project I used Python to write the tests, which appears to work well initially. Dunno how well it will hold up for ongoing maintenance.
It gives you full control of constructing requests and assertions because test scenarios may include arbitrary JavaScript.
What about test isolation? Are people using something else to "prime" the service before/after running these tests?
One annoying thing I've found in testing these tools is that a standard hasn't emerged for using the results of one request as input for another in the syntax of `.http` files. These three tools for instance have three different ways of doing it:
* hurl uses `[Captures]`
* Vscode-restclient does it by referencing request names in a variable declaration (like: `@token = {{loginAPI.response.body.token}}`).
* While httpyac uses `@ref` syntax.
From a quick round of testing it seems like using the syntax for one might break the other tools.
[1]: https://hurl.dev/docs/capturing-response.html
[2]: https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient
[3]: https://httpyac.github.io/guide/metaData.html#ref-and-forcer...
I don't know what the mechanism/incentive for getting a standard would be either. Probably most likely would be if there was one clear "winner" that everyone else felt the need mirror.
In any case, appreciate the reply and the tool. Good luck with it.
Conway's Law in action, ladies and gentlemen.
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TIL! The way I knew to do it was to have a mock implementation that behaved like the real thing, expect for data/time/uuids/..., where there was just a placeholder. Snapshot tests being able to "mask" those non-deterministic parts sounds cool!
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