RESTFiddle

An Enterprise-grade API Management Platform for Teams. RESTFiddle helps you design, develop, test and release APIs.

Some of the key features of this platform are:

• Request Builder - Make HTTP requests with ease.
• Request Tree - Organize requests in the form of a tree.
• Collaboration - Add as many collaborators as you want from your team and work together on a project.
• PDF Reports - Generate project status reports in PDF format.
• Integration - RESTFiddle platform exposes APIs for everything it has.
• History - Unlimited history/activity log.
• Scheduler - Run API projects on predefined time intervals.
• SendGrid - SendGrid integration to send notifications.
• Cloud Deployment - It can be deployed over any server and can also be used as a cloud based hosted web application.
• Private - Install it in your environment and own it completely. Work together with your team in your private network.
• Database - Store everything in your database. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server etc. supported.
• Swagger - Access RESTFiddle API documentation using Swagger UI.
• Tagging - Tags provide a useful way to group related requests together.
• Open Source - Fork it and build the features of your choice.
• More - Security, Access Control, Notifications and much more.

A lot of powerful features coming soon!

Initial Design

Who Uses RESTFiddle

The following is a list of companies and projects using RESTFiddle:

• BootSimply Solutions (http://bootsimply.com/)

Want to be added to this section? Email me at ranjan dot rk at gmail dot com.

Building From Source

Prerequisites

• JDK 7 or later

• Maven 3.0+

• MySQL (optional)

Note : By default the application is configured to use Hsqldb. It is an in-memory database and maven downloads it during build time. Also, it automatically starts with the application.

Build

mvn clean install

Run

mvn spring-boot:run

Access

The build file is configured to download and use an embedded Tomcat server. So the application should be up and running by using just two commands mentioned above. Once the server is started, the application can be accessed using http://localhost:8080.

Default login email / password : rf@example.com / rf

Debug

mvn spring-boot:run -Drun.jvmArguments="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=8000"

Note : To avoid java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space, use the following command:

MAVEN_OPTS="-XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m" mvn spring-boot:run 

MySQL configuration:

Go to src/main/resources/env-development.properties and update database url, username and password. Here is how the sample configuration looks like:

database.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

database.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/restfiddle

database.username=root

database.password=

To use Hsqldb as in-memory database, use the following configuration:

database.driver=org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver

database.url=jdbc:hsqldb:mem:restfiddle

database.username=sa

database.password=

Deployment

You can deploy the war file to Tomcat 7.0.52, Jetty, or any other container, as long as it supports servlet 3.0.

Technology Stack

• Spring (http://spring.io/)

• Hibernate (http://hibernate.org/)

• HttpComponents (http://hc.apache.org/)

• Logback (http://logback.qos.ch/)

• MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/)

• Tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org/)

• jQuery (http://jquery.com/)

• Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/)

• Backbone (http://backbonejs.org/)

• Underscore (http://underscorejs.org/)

• RequireJS (http://requirejs.org/)

• https://github.com/mar10/fancytree/

• https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/

• https://github.com/isagalaev/highlight.js/

• https://github.com/brianreavis/selectize.js/

• https://github.com/vitalets/x-editable/

• http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

• http://glyphicons.com/

Contribute

You're interested in contributing to RESTFiddle? AWESOME. Here are the basic steps:

• Make sure you have a GitHub Account
• Fork RESTFiddle from here : https://github.com/ranjan-rk/restfiddle/
• Clone your fork
• Make your changes
• Make sure everything is working fine
• Format your code (see below)
• Submit a pull request

Code formatting :

• If you're an Eclipse user, use the following code formatter : https://github.com/ranjan-rk/restfiddle/blob/master/tools/restfiddle_code_formatter.xml
• You should also activate automatic formatting and organizing imports on save.

GitHub help :

• Forking a repo - https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo
• Creating a pull request - https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request
• Syncing a fork - https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork

Google Group :

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/restfiddle

Meetup Group :

http://www.meetup.com/RESTFiddle

Releases

https://github.com/ranjan-rk/restfiddle/releases

Support

If you need help in setting up RESTFiddle for your Team/Organization, feel free to contact me at this email address.

Copyright and License

Copyright 2015 Ranjan Kumar

Licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0