This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Cláudia Delgado
Another week, another changelog! Check out what we shipped 👇
HTTPie for Web & Desktop
HTTPie’s mission is to make APIs simple and intuitive for all those building the tools of our time. And today we got a bit closer to that goal by becoming the first API testing platform with clients for the Web, Desktop, and Terminal.
🖥️ Desktop app released
Now we can finally say that “HTTPie for Web & Desktop” is entirely accurate: the HTTPie for Desktop app is live!
A dedicated desktop app has been the most frequent request from our beta users. And for a good reason: without it, it’s hard to test APIs running on localhost and behind a firewall. A focused app also serves as a protection against distraction rabbit holes, which are just a bit harder to avoid when working in the browser (as one of our beta users has pointed out).
If you’re a beta member, download the app today, and start working locally & without distractions.
✨ Improvements
- Whenever you feel like making a new API request, you can now use the short & sweet
req.newalias forhttpie.io/app. - There’s a new 📣 icon in your left-bottom navigation linking to these changelogs.
- Layout improvements: you can't see that annoying space at the right anymore, and the scroll works much better, among others.
🪲 Fixes
- You couldn't send a request with an invalid header name, even if that header was disabled. Now you can.
- The web app was adding some unnecessary headers to outgoing requests. It’s no longer the case.
- The panels resizing feature we shipped last week had some naughty bugs. They’re gone now.
HTTPie for Terminal
Here’s a summary of this week’s improvements to the development version of HTTPie for Terminal, which will be part of the upcoming v3.0.0 release.
🌲️ Nested JSON support (#1224)
The long-waited nested JSON support just landed! You can now use a new syntax based on the JSON Form notation to rapidly build complex JSON requests.
http --offline --print=B pie.dev/post \
result[status][type]=ok ids:=1 ids:=2
{
"result": {
"status": {
"type": "ok"
}
},
"ids": [
1,
2
]
}
This new syntax is very expressive, and we believe it will save a lot of keystrokes. See more examples in the unstable docs.
✨ Improvements
— Startup time is now 40% faster. (#1221)
- Are you authenticating with a bearer token? Great news then, bearer token auth is now a built-in method. You can use
-A bearer -a tokento send requests with it. (#1216) - There are two new operators:
==@for reading query params from a file; and:@for reading headers from a file. (#1218) - If any of the response headers include
Content-Type: text/event-stream, then we'll now auto-stream the response body. (#1226)
🪲 Fixes
- An XML declaration was auto-added to the beginning of each formatted XML response, but not anymore. Now you'll only see it if it's already present in the raw response. (#1183)
Happy testing, and see you next week!
- 💁🏻♀️ If you’re not on the private beta yet, you can join the waitlist here.
- 👉 You can also follow @httpie and join our Discord community.
Originally published on HTTPie blog.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Cláudia Delgado
Cláudia Delgado | Sciencx (2021-12-05T12:44:40+00:00) Changelog #0004 — 🖥️ Desktop app. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/12/05/changelog-0004-%f0%9f%96%a5%ef%b8%8f-desktop-app/
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