Built in REST CLIENT (.http/.rest) file in Visual Studio 2022 | Best way to test the API
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Visual Studio 2022 has a built-in REST Client to test the API or Microservices. This can be done easily by adding a new file with the .http/.rest extension.
The .rest/.http is a special file in visual studio 2022 v17.5 and has a preview window also.
We can test multiple APIs from a single http/rest file. After using this .http/.rest file there would not be any need of using Postman, swagger, or any other external tool.
This is also called as API development inner-loop.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to built-in rest tool in visual studio 2022
00:41 Setting up the sample application.
01:51 Setup the .rest/.http file in visual studio
03:17 Test and debug the HTTP GET API using .http file in visual studio
06:06 Pass the data in the URL using .http/.rest file
07:37 Test and debug the HTTP POST API using .http file
08:19 Pass the headers in the HTTP call using .http file
11:15 Pass Authorization header in the HTTP call
11:22 Test the HTTP PUT API using .http file
12:37 Add comments in .http file
13:45 Variables in .http/.rest file
Code repository: github.com/nitishwebgentle/bu...
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Наука
*Not currently supported in the Visual Studio HTTP Editor*
Optional HTTP Method
Request line that spans more than one line
Named Requests
Dynamic variables
Environment files
Specify file path as body of the request
Mixed format for body when using multipart/form-data
GraphQL requests
cURL request
Copy/paste as cURL
Request history
Save response body to file
Certificate based authentication
Prompt variables
System variables
Customize response preview
Per-request settings
Great stuff dude, i noticed a similar feature in Rider and hoped it would get ported to VS and now it is!
Thanks for the feedback.
Nice! Next they need to provide a way to also verify expected results, besides unit tests.
Great stuff. Thanks for the tutorial!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very nice feature of VS2022.Thanks for the new feature updates
Thanks for the video!
Awesome, thank you!
Very nice, thanks!
It is nice to see that Visual Studio is adding new capabilities to easily test API endpoints. I use RESTful endpoints in many of my applications and it certainly is encouraging that Microsoft is building API testing capabilities into the IDE experience. This is a start, and I am sure that Microsoft will eventually get on par with Swagger and Postman.
Exactly. This would be a game changer in testing the endpoints.
Great information, thank you
Great video. Thank you. Do you know if there is a way to change the timeout?
Hello thanks for great content! , does it has enviroment variables feature ?, where i can find documentation?
Excellent topic
Hi Kaushik. Your tutorial is very very helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
Thankyou for the feedback.
Very informative video. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for being aware it never knew before
Happy to help
Is there a nice way to handle the call an authentication route with a username/password and store the given token ?
Excellently explained, thanks Nitish, subscribing to your channel
Thankyou
Thank you 😊
very helpful thanks sir
Happy to help
Good job
Can you do assertations in this expected to what is produced?
Very helpful , thanks
Nitin , big fan of you. Please start micro service
Glad it was helpful!
I will
Is multipart/form-data supported? 🤔
Its a nice video. Is there any automation testing for the http file you have created. Instead of running each link. Can we automate it for testing
Great - thanks! Having trouble adding an x-api-key to the header for for authentication - how would this be done?
Thanks for the feedback. Here is the sample code to pass the token in the header.
@baseUrl = localhost:7289
@token = dascddasdsfsfafdsfdsafd....asdfdfdasf
POST {{baseUrl}}/api/employee
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {{token}}
{
"id": 0,
"name": "nitish kaushik updated",
"email": "testing@sample.com"
}
How to pass apikey in header
Been doing it this way for a very long time using an extension.
That's great. Would you like to share the extension name or URL with us.
Is there a api test runner comming soon that would be awsome.
Terrific overview, and I will start using this immediately. Question: What are the differences between using ".http" vs ".rest"? Are they identical, or is there a benefit to using one over the other?
Hey @Daniel thankyou for the feedback. There is no difference in both the extensions. You can use any one of them in your project.
@@nitish.kaushik Thank you for clarifying. It's interesting they chose to support two extensions with no differences.
Very interesting video. How is it possible to send end get cookies?
If you want to replace postman, the "Thunder client" extension is a great open-source option.
Thankyou for sharing
What about chaining request ?
Thank you Nitish Kaushik. Your tutorial is very helpful. If possible please create Azure tutorial series.
Thankyou for sharing feedback. I am planning to cover Azure.
Any way to convert class to Json?
this seems okeish , for very simple stuff , how would you test authentication? , how would that work with nswag ? and also lets not forget frontend end devs .lets say you have frontend devs who need the api documentation thats swagger, to build by hand or with automation the services to API what would you provide to them ? i think in terms of development that helps only the backend dev.
Great observation. Authentication is possible in .http/.rest file also by passing the Authorization header with the correct token.
However, I agree with the requirement of doc front-end developers.
But don't forget this is just the beginning of the rest client in visual studio and there will definitely be some great improvements in the future as well.
*Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic with us.*
Very nice presentation of the feature.
Does anyone know whether its possible to use variables across files?
For example, to import a JWT token defined in a specific file into another file.
Thankyou for sharing your feedback. I was also having the same question but seems like this feature (importing var from other file) is not possible in this release.
But lets see how it goes in upcoming releases.
@@nitish.kaushik Cool. Thanks for investing your time to inform us about this. The feature shows great promise.
Terrific content and presentation! Let me add a couple of suggestions to make your videos perfect. Watching you type is distracting because my eye is trying to focus on the code and listening to your explanation. I would recommend that you skip showing yourself over the video. Second, please remember to talk slowly. Thank you for ccovering this new feature comprehensively.
Thankyou Mark for the feedback. I will take care of them in future videos 🙂
JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, Rider, PyCharm, ...) have had this for quite some time.
And here comes Microsoft
This very necessary app for everyone's thanks for quality crack!
Is there a way to pass response data from one call to a second call. this can be done in vscode version example: Authorization: {{authRequest.response.body.token }}
Not as of now.
Hi, how to use nested var from json?
Some new features have been added to this feature and now you can set your variables from configuration json file.
Nice👍 can you do some learning vdos about microservices.
Yes, soon
Hey, can you send me the entire project repo link ? I am new to C# and would want to understand the entire code
*Here it is*
github.com/nitishwebgentle/built-in-rest-client-in-visual-studio-2022
Can this feature be used for testing gRPC
You can test any endpoint using this feature.
How to send all requests? (all green play buttons)
As of now you can send the request one by one
Can we use this to test out during DevOps?
I dont think so. This only works only on VS 2022.
how can i implement this with visual studio code? thanks.
As of now this feature is supported only in Visual Studio.
How to test if the api application is secured with o auth 2.0 , which requires user name and password
You can get the token from browser network tab and use the same token here. That will work.
Not yet, pal. Postman & Swagger are much more. How would you handle secure endpoints with say bearer tokens with this new thingy?
You can pas the token in the header. Just like we are passing content type, in the same way you can pass Authorize header and you can store the token in a variable.
@@nitish.kaushik Sensitive data shouldn't be hard-coded in the application. This is a security breach.
You are right. But this concept is just the beginning. May be there will be some great improvements in future releases.
We are going to be working to enable using secrets in a secure fashion. Nothing specific to share at this time though. I’m on the team developing this feature.
Thanks Sayed for your reply.
What the heck..how does this replace postman….you are saying that we have to write .net proje t
How to use authorization with APIKey?
You can pass n number of headers in the request.
08:19 Pass the headers in the HTTP call using .http file
@@nitish.kaushik Yes, I just included the APIKey and the value in the header and it worked! Thanks.
Excellent 👍👍
I would say bye bye to your video In title
But what is the reason 🤔 ? You don't like the feature?
This is still a child's toy compared to the capabilities of Postman. Environments, scripting, variables, test runner, read data from files, etc. I know you said not to compare with mature tools like Postman but you also said "After using this .http/.rest file there would not be any need of using Postman, swagger, or any other external tool." You can't have it both ways. Either it can do what Postman does or you likely still need Postman.
Bye bye Visual Studio
Which editor do you use ?