Curly v0.1

Designed to be a intuitive stateful wrapper for building, saving and recalling curl requests by providing a series of "helper" commands (not quite full shell commands). This allows for payload, headers and response inspection along with easy request editing via terminal commands and vim editor. Supports GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests in addition to establishing a long lived SSE connection to a server.

Requirements

• Vim/Vi
• JQ or JSON_PP

Vim/Vi: requests are piped out to a vim editor for inspection and editing. It is recommended that you have basic understanding of Vim in order to navigate the buffer.

> brew install vim

JQ: All curl responses make use of JQ parser to pretty print JSON into the vim console. Alternatively you could us JSON_PP in place of all JQ commands within the scripts to effect the same result. Simply swap all jq . snippets with json_pp

> brew install jq
or
> brew install json_pp

To Install Curly

The scripts are meant to be installed to and used from the local repo directory. It is recommended to run this in it's own terminal rather than installing it into /user/bin to limit interference with standard bash commands. On first load the helper commands will be displayed to get you started and can be recalled at any time with the rpHelp helper.

> git clone git@github.com:rubyDoomsday/curly.git curly
> cd curly
> chmod 777 start.sh
> source ./start.sh

Quick Start

Building a request is done by setting the various parts of a request individually to support making multiple and varying calls to the same server. Each request is automatically saved into a datestamp folder and can be recalled using loadRequest history/[date]/[request]. Active requests can be edited with various helper commands (Setting Params).

> setHost https://myapi.com
> setHeaders
> get /path/to/endpoint
> get '/path/to/endpoint?with=param'

Setting Params

Setting up RESTful calls may require editing one or all of the following settings.

Setting	Helper	Use
headers	setHeaders	Opens a vim editor to set list of headers one header per line
payload	setPayload	Opens a vim editor to set JSON of payload used for POST calls
HOST	setHost [host]	Stores the host domain of the server
PATH	setPath [path]	Stores the URL path along with any URL params

Making Calls

To simplify making multiple calls to the same host server, you can optionally provide the path as an argument to any of the following REST commands rather than setting each time with the setPath helper.

• post (path) will build/send a curl request to the provided host/path
• get (path) will build/send a curl request to the provided host/path
• put (path) will build/send a curl request to the provided host/path
• get (path) will build/send a curl request to the provided host/path
• openStream (path) will build/send a curl request to open a SSE event stream to the provided host/path