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Other than pretty printing the output, what does this offer that curl doesn't already do?
Syntax highlighting
Request performance waterfalls
Built-in JMESPath queries for JSON (same syntax as in AWS CLI). XML and HTML can be queried too.
Ability to set checks on the response. This one is super handy for quick acceptance tests.
> npm install Sorry, lost me at this part. Have a better installation story like a single executable. Beyond that, what does this do that curl, wget, et al do not? How is your interface better than those? Is it robust in the face of errors? What http protocol versions does it support?
Holy guacamole this is an entitled sentiment. It’s an open source project and it’s free.
> npm install Sorry, lost me at this part. Have a better installation story like a single executable. Beyond that, what does this do that curl, wget, et al do not? How is your interface better than those? Is it robust in the face of errors? What http protocol versions does it support?
if you’re on a Mac, Artillery has a Homebrew formula too. We have an official Docker image too. Other ways of installing are on the roadmap too (self contained tarballs and binaries). As to what it does better than curl/wget. Probe is geared towards interactive use with HTTP APIs. So you get syntax highlighting and pretty printing for JSON, built-in querying, request waterfall visualizations, and ability to set expec…
Does artillery properly escape the environment variables into json strings? I don't see how it could if you're using bash expansion in double quotes. This feature would only work with string values without spaces or special characters. Don't really see any improvement here.
https://www.artillery.io/blog/swiss-army-knife-for-http-test...
So by embedding a json query evaluator in your http client, this means that every time I iterate on my JMESPath query I'm making a new request? Is there an offline mode? What if my Json file is 200MiB? Or if the request was not idempotent?
Just saying there's good reasons why json query features are not typically built into one-shot http request tools. However, if your tool was not one-shotand you had an interactive session and cached/stored the entire result and then allow the user to interactively query it, then I could see some better value here.
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if you’re on a Mac, Artillery has a Homebrew formula too. We have an official Docker image too. Other ways of installing are on the roadmap too (self contained tarballs and binaries). As to what it does better than curl/wget. Probe is geared towards interactive use with HTTP APIs. So you get syntax highlighting and pretty printing for JSON, built-in querying, request waterfall visualizations, and ability to set expec…
https://www.artillery.io/blog/swiss-army-knife-for-http-test... Does artillery properly escape the environment variables into json strings? I don't see how it could if you're using bash expansion in double quotes. This feature would only work with string values without spaces or special characters. Don't really see any improvement here. https://www.artillery.io/blog/swiss-army-knife-for-http-test... So by embedding a…
Good point on iterating on the query! We already save the body into a temp file, so we can make Probe be able to run queries on a file. Adding it to the todo list. :)
(In my own workflow I use gron a lot for getting an overview of the shape of unfamiliar JSON, super handy tool)
As to an interactive shell… yes, 100%. Kicking ideas around something like that as well!
edit: it looks like you need to install 1276 npm dependencies to use this tool
https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/network/dependencie...
i'll pass, the risk is unacceptable for value it offers, especially in corporate environments
> npm install Sorry, lost me at this part. Have a better installation story like a single executable. Beyond that, what does this do that curl, wget, et al do not? How is your interface better than those? Is it robust in the face of errors? What http protocol versions does it support?
> Have a better installation story like a single executable. Holy guacamole this is an entitled sentiment. It’s an open source project and it’s free.
It would take me something extraordinary to move away from curl
Sure, if you've got muscle memory for all the flags (plus it lets you reason about all the other programs that pipe stuff to curl). I personally find myself using httpie [1] at least as much. 1: https://httpie.io/
It would take me something extraordinary to move away from curl
Sure, if you've got muscle memory for all the flags (plus it lets you reason about all the other programs that pipe stuff to curl). I personally find myself using httpie [1] at least as much. 1: https://httpie.io/
does this require Node.JS? edit: it looks like you need to install 1276 npm dependencies to use this tool https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/network/dependencie... i'll pass, the risk is unacceptable for value it offers, especially in corporate environments
npm is not for end users.
does this require Node.JS? edit: it looks like you need to install 1276 npm dependencies to use this tool https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery/network/dependencie... i'll pass, the risk is unacceptable for value it offers, especially in corporate environments
what technically prevents you from designing the tool independent of the Node.JS and JavaScript ecosystem?