HttpGenerator 0.1.3

HTTP File Generator

Generate .http files from OpenAPI specifications

.http files were made popular by the Visual Studio Code extension REST Client, which then was adopted by JetBrains IDE's, and later on Visual Studio 2022

Usage

USAGE:
    httpgenerator [URL or input file] [OPTIONS]

EXAMPLES:
    httpgenerator ./openapi.json
    httpgenerator ./openapi.json --output ./
    httpgenerator https://petstore.swagger.io/v2/swagger.json
    httpgenerator https://petstore3.swagger.io/api/v3/openapi.json --base-url https://petstore3.swagger.io
    httpgenerator ./openapi.json --authorization-header Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ.SflKxwRJSMeKKF2QT4fwpMeJf36POk6yJV_adQssw5c

ARGUMENTS:
    [URL or input file]    URL or file path to OpenAPI Specification file

OPTIONS:
                                           DEFAULT                                                                                                                           
    -h, --help                                                 Prints help information                                                                                       
    -o, --output <OUTPUT>                  ./                  Output directory                                                                                              
        --no-logging                                           Don't log errors or collect telemetry                                                                         
        --skip-validation                                      Skip validation of OpenAPI Specification file                                                                 
        --authorization-header <HEADER>                        Authorization header to use for all requests                                                                  
        --content-type <CONTENT-TYPE>      application/json    Default Content-Type header to use for all requests                                                           
        --base-url <BASE-URL>                                  Default Base URL to use for all requests. Use this if the OpenAPI spec doesn't explicitly specify a server URL

Running the following:

httpgenerator https://petstore.swagger.io/v2/swagger.json

Outputs the following:

HTTP File Generator v0.1.1
Support key: mbmbqvd

OpenAPI statistics:
 - Path Items: 14
 - Operations: 20
 - Parameters: 14
 - Request Bodies: 9
 - Responses: 20
 - Links: 0
 - Callbacks: 0
 - Schemas: 67

Files: 20
Duration: 00:00:02.3089450

Which will produce the following files:

-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  299 Nov 13 22:40 AddPet.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  276 Nov 13 22:40 CreateUser.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  332 Nov 13 22:40 CreateUsersWithArrayInput.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  330 Nov 13 22:40 CreateUsersWithListInput.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  135 Nov 13 22:40 DeleteOrder.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  115 Nov 13 22:40 DeletePet.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  123 Nov 13 22:40 DeleteUser.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  119 Nov 13 22:40 FindPetsByStatus.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  115 Nov 13 22:40 FindPetsByTags.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  117 Nov 13 22:40 GetInventory.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  129 Nov 13 22:40 GetOrderById.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  109 Nov 13 22:40 GetPetById.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  117 Nov 13 22:40 GetUserByName.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  107 Nov 13 22:40 LoginUser.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  109 Nov 13 22:40 LogoutUser.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  250 Nov 13 22:40 PlaceOrder.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  297 Nov 13 22:40 UpdatePet.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  111 Nov 13 22:40 UpdatePetWithForm.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  296 Nov 13 22:40 UpdateUser.http
-rw-r--r--  1 christian  staff  135 Nov 13 22:40 UploadFile.http

In this example, the contents of AddPet.http looks like this:

### POST /pet Request

POST https://petstore.swagger.io/v2/pet
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "id": 0,
  "category": {
    "id": 0,
    "name": "name"
  },
  "name": "name",
  "photoUrls": [
    ""
  ],
  "tags": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "name": "name"
    }
  ],
  "status": "available"
}

Here's an advanced example of generating .http files for a REST API hosted on Microsoft Azure that uses the Microsoft Entra ID service as an STS. For this example, I use PowerShell and Azure CLI to retrieve an access token for the user I'm currently logged in with.

az account get-access-token --scope [Some Application ID URI]/.default `
| ConvertFrom-Json `
| %{
    httpgenerator `
        https://api.example.com/swagger/v1/swagger.json `
        --authorization-header ("Bearer " + $_.accessToken) `
        --base-url https://api.example.com `
        --output ./HttpFiles 
}

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