REST Client for Google Chrome

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rest/flkpngnnmfhmdcoggeompbgbpocpfmgk

by passfree • 13 years ago

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mtrimpe• 13 years ago

I'll ask this on the off chance that this was posted by the author; have you considered adding support for importing from and exporting to curl commands?

When you work in a team with non-developer testers they tend to use a GUI REST client like this, while most of the developers will prefer working with curl commands instead.

You don't want to know how many hours have been wasted manually converting these calls back and forth ... especially when somebody converts them incorrectly.

passfree10• 13 years ago

I will make sure that this is added via the tilda mode - to convert to and from curl.

passfree10• 13 years ago

This feature has been added. Wait for the app to update. Refresh. Press ESC to get into escape mode. Now you can type any curl command. Most options are supported. It works just like bash. When you hit enter, the command will be converted into a request and executed.

Soon, it will be possible to go the other way around as well, i.e. convert a request to curl.

I hope this will be helpful to you in the future.

haarts• 13 years ago

How does it differ from Postman (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-clien...)?

Seems that both solve the same problem.

talkingquickly4• 13 years ago

Also worth considering Postman (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-clien...) I particularly like that it allows you to save groups of requests into "Collections" so you can have quick access to all the main API calls from one app.

You can also export these collections and share them with other team members.

This is particularly useful for sanity checking before deploys e.g. just running through each API call to make sure users can login and perform primary actions.

passfree10• 13 years ago

REST is quite new but it has solid foundations that go well beyond what postman achieves today. New features will be added rapidly in the next couple of weeks.

talkingquickly4• 13 years ago

Looks really interesting but shame it's dependant on https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/websecurify/emclbd... which requires "access to your data on all websites"

jlengrand3• 13 years ago

I totally love POSTMAN. The collections thingy is really cool. I'll give REST a shot too, though :).

talkingquickly4• 13 years ago

REST does look interesting. Tried to give it a go but it's dependant on also installing the "Websecurify" extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/websecurify/emclbd...).

Websecurify looks interesting in itself but requires "access to your data on all websites" permission which means doing a load of research into what it's actually doing etc etc which seems like a lot of effort just to try out a rest client.

Best of luck to them though, Postman made by workflow testing API's hugely more efficient so if they manage to improve on that it'll be a great tool.

munimkazia• 13 years ago

+1 Big fan of Postman. It is an indispensable tool in my day to day development work.

thomseddon• 13 years ago

This isn't a pure Chrome Extension, it just takes you to the site: https://suite.websecurify.com/rest

One of the main uses of a rest client in a chrome extension (e.g. postman/advanced REST client) is so you can use it offline. The entire functionality of the webpage is written in JS (https://suite.websecurify.com/rest/script) so it could be easily packaged into a true chrome extension, frankly as it stands this seems to be a bit of a half arsed attempt to get more exposure.

passfree10• 13 years ago

You are missing the point. This works in offline mode too. Everything is client-side. As a bonus it also works in Firefox. The reason it is hosted like this is because it provides more flexibility and allow us to deploy more awesome features more rapidly.

coolj• 13 years ago

Wait...you can change the script the extension runs, at any time, without user notification? Yeah...no....

hit8run• 13 years ago

Simple and also good: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dev-http-client/ae...

quantumf2• 13 years ago

Could not figure out how to add request headers.

passfree10• 13 years ago

You type them, i.e Header: Value

quantumf2• 13 years ago

Typing the below

GET XUsername:ADMIN https://localhost:443/resources/myresource/1 HTTP/1.1 Host: target

gives an error in the REST: "Your request contains errors"

lemieux• 13 years ago

REST Console is pretty good too https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rest-console/cokgb...

cinbun8• 13 years ago

The `Advanced REST Client` attempts to solve the same problem - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-clie...

Like the others have mentioned here, there are a couple of tools in chrome that try to solve the same problem. Not that it is a bad thing. Has anyone used them all to summarize pros / cons ?

hawleyal2• 13 years ago

Every time I see "REST Client", I always say to myself "You mean, web browser?"

HNJohnC• 13 years ago

For a GET or DELETE request maybe, try doing anything else of substance and you pretty quickly need a dedicated REST client.

hawleyal2• 13 years ago

I try daily. I program web apps for a living.

A web browser is literally a "dedicated REST client". REST is just HTTP. It's the pattern HTTP to exchange messages. Representations and methods. Sure, HTML forms never implemented the full range of methods [facepalm], but most engines allow method parameter overrides (_method=PUT|DELETE). And it does get harder when doing these live via JavaScript, and exchanging data other than HTML like JSON.

Of course I use HTTP tools other than the generic web browser UI. Firefox extensions get you pretty far with HTTP logging/modification like Firebug, Poster, TamperData. There's also some standalone apps like Fiddler and friends. But meh.

chill1• 13 years ago

I've been using Advanced REST Client [1] for quite a while now. Have not yet encountered anything about it that I don't like. That's usually a good sign of quality software -- to me at least.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-clie...

namigop• 13 years ago

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