Curl for REST
It has been a long time since the last post. But today, I will just show two tools I use for debugging my REST APIs.
First one is the well known curl and the second one is jq.
One important feature of curl is its hability to load external files for datas
with @ before file name:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @filepath
Then you can remove the progress bar by adding -s in the options
Finally, you can use jq for parsing the output with a request syntax, here is what the final line looks like:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -s -d @filepath | jq '.'
It is a small article but I just wanted to show that those tools are really great, we do not need complex software for this. I prefer using simple cli because it gives a better understanding on what we are doing, and on what we are relying on.