Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

Re:Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Post... by divbzero on Saturday March 09, 2024 @05:49PM (#39655302)

I really like the idea of serializing requests to a Git-friendly text format.

But if we want a Git-friendly text format, why not mimic HTTP/1.1 request syntax as much as possible? Maybe with Jekyll-like YAML front matter for metadata that doesn’t fit?

So for Get Users.bru instead of the current example of:

  meta {
    name: Get Users
    type: http
    seq: 1
  }
  
  get {
    url: https://reqres.in/api/users
    body: none
  }
  
  headers {
    Content-Type: application/json
  }

We could adopt a format like:

  ---
  name: Get Users
  type: http
  scheme: https
  seq: 1
  ---
  
  GET /api/users HTTP/1.1
  Host: reqres.in
  Content-Type: application/json

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Re:Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Post... by manquer on Saturday March 09, 2024 @08:28PM (#39656028)

There is reason they didn’t go with YAML like syntax the author talks about it extensively here https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/360

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Re:Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Post... by lb4r on Saturday March 09, 2024 @08:21PM (#39656003)

Just out of curiosity, why is the below example more git-friendly than the above? Smaller deltas? (and if so: why?)

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Re:Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Post... by Cthulhu_ on Saturday March 09, 2024 @06:01PM (#39655362)

I've used a plugin in both VS Code and IntelliJ that is just that, I just saw someone else post it too: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

Example:

    GET https://example.com/comments/1 HTTP/1.1

    ###

    POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1
    content-type: application/json

    {
        "name": "sample",
        "time": "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:27:50 GMT"
    }

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Re:Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Post... by Karupan on Saturday March 09, 2024 @06:24PM (#39655460)

Second this. One of the first VSCode extensions I install and recommend for non-devs in the team as well (BAs, QAs, etc). Kind of insane how human friendly HTTP 1.1 is.

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Re:Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Post... by schoenobates on Saturday March 09, 2024 @07:16PM (#39655689)

Intellij (and all the other variations) has something very similar to this called [0]HttpClient. Being able to commit and basically just read the file is very useful. You can also do validation and scripting with it too.

[0]https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

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Re:Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Post... by Aeolun on Saturday March 09, 2024 @07:45PM (#39655849)

I think hurl does this?

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Re:Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Post... by 7fYZ7mJh3RNKNaG on Saturday March 09, 2024 @06:42PM (#39655543)

Would love this

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