REST Client is such a great tool. We using extensively for the purpose of testing, and sharing examples in our project repos.
The ability to use JSONPath to follow links or grab values from your API response to form the next request is invaluable. Not to mention really great for demonstrating how REST APIs are meant to look and work!
If you've not tried it, give it a go. You need to name your request with:
# @name MyAwesomeRequest
But then once you've invoked it you can access a variable of the same name so {{ MyAwesomeRequest... }} the request and response plus the headers and body for both.
It's only more recently I stumbled across the environments feature, but that's made a huge difference in cutting down the noise of declaring loads of variables that change per environment.
REST Client is such a great tool. We using extensively for the purpose of testing, and sharing examples in our project repos.
The ability to use JSONPath to follow links or grab values from your API response to form the next request is invaluable. Not to mention really great for demonstrating how REST APIs are meant to look and work!
If you've not tried it, give it a go. You need to name your request with:
# @name MyAwesomeRequestBut then once you've invoked it you can access a variable of the same name so
{{ MyAwesomeRequest... }}the request and response plus the headers and body for both.It's only more recently I stumbled across the environments feature, but that's made a huge difference in cutting down the noise of declaring loads of variables that change per environment.
Hi @devjonny !
Totally agree, grabing values from previous API responses is amazing and let you easily test calls sequences.
Many thanks for this sharing, hope it could help readers to deep dive on this such great extension !