So, myself and many folks I know have taken to writing tests in the form of ".http" files that can be executed by IDE extensions in VS Code/IDEA.
Those basically go in the form
POST http://localhost:8080/api/foo
Content-Type: application/json
{ "some": "body" }
And then we have a 1-to-1 mapping of "expected.json" outputs for integration tests.
We use a bespoke bash script to run these .http file with cURL, and then compare the outputs with jq, log success/failure to console, and write "actual.json"
Can I use HURL in a similar way? Essentially an IDE-runnable example HTTP request that references a JSON file as the expected output?
And then run HURL over a directory of these files?
You can use hurl in this way. I have projects with a test directory of hurl files, one hurl file per test case. The cases can run one or more http requests. The hurl file can reference external files, capture values from responses for subsequent requests, validate status and outputs. Hurl has various test runner modes and will optionally output overall test results in various parsable formats if you have a larger reporting framework that you would like to hook into.
Obviously better IDEs integration, support for gRPC, Websocket would be very cool.
A favorite of mine is to be available through official `apt`: there has been some work but it's kind of stuck. The Debian integration is the more difficult integration we have to deal. It's not Debian fault, there are a lot of documentation but we've struggled a lot and fail to understand the process.
