I'm using DHC extension for Chrome for all my rest tests: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dhc-resthttp-api-client/aejoelaoggembcahagimdiliamlcdmfm?hl=en
It's fantastic. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Thomas Koster <tkos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greg, > > On 13 September 2015 at 16:48, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Folks, in recent months I've been doing lots of REST call testing. I use > the > > scratchpad of Fiddler to select and send some request lines, then look at > > the traffic in the inspector panes. The trouble is that my scratchpad is > > getting longer than a Thomas Pynchon novel, so I was wondering if others > > here have favourite techniques or tools for doing this sort of > "playaround" > > REST testing, perhaps with a better way or organising your scripts -- GK > > My favourits to "play" with a web service are Curl [1] and > Wireshark [2]. Proper testing deserves code. > > Curl is a lingua franca of online REST service API documentation - I > often see example calls given as Curl invocations. Curl is a cross- > platform command-line tool so it composes very well with scripts. These > may also work better with your VCS than the Fiddler scratchpad (I don't > use Fiddler so I wouldn't know). You can also give those Curl commands > to your JavaScript front-end team on Mac and they should know what to do > with them. > > [1] http://curl.haxx.se > [2] https://www.wireshark.org > > -- > Thomas Koster >
