HAR format should be optional about insomnia-mockbin

[ahmadnassri]

so with minimal requirements it would look like this:

{
  "content": {
    "mimeType": "text/plain", 
    "text": "Hello"
  }
}

• status, and statusText, will default to 200 & OK.
• Content-Type header will default to mimeType

creating new Bins would end up looking like this with the minimal setup:

curl mockbin.org/bin/create -H "application/json" -d '{"success": true, "payload": ["array of stuff"]}'

thoughts?

[bitwit]

Well our API responses typically look like:

{
    success: true,
    payload: ['array of stuff']
}

So we're hoping to have a way to directly return a body like that, with payload in the root and containing JSON. The additional HAR headers aren't the problem so much as that my body ends up nested inside 'content' as text even if I say the content type is application/json

So I was hoping there was maybe a way to either select HAR and get this format or maybe a raw where i can indicate the content type and dump a stringified JSON body

If there's some way we can help with the feature, we're not afraid to roll our sleeves up

[ahmadnassri]

oh ... methinks we are talking about two different things and perhaps you are using this wrong ...

after creating a bin, accessing it will give you the response body directly:

curl mockbin.org/bin/create -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"status": 200,"statusText": "OK","httpVersion": "HTTP/1.1","headers": [{"name": "content-type","value": "application/json"}],"cookies": [],"content": {"mimeType": "application/json","text": "{\"success\": true, \"payload\": [\"array of stuff\"]}","size": 0},"redirectURL": "","bodySize": 0,"headersSize": 0}'

(^ this was the part I'm referencing, the "creation", I can simply by removing some of the requirements and assuming 200 OK and Content-Type to match mimeType)

curl -v http://mockbin.com/bin/8fbdd762-3c3e-4429-8ab1-2338b594b705

result

GET /bin/8fbdd762-3c3e-4429-8ab1-2338b594b705 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
Host: mockbin.com
Accept: */*

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 21:00:30 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 48
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-Encoding

{"success": true, "payload": ["array of stuff"]}

how are you calling the Bin that results in you getting the HAR dump?

[bitwit]

I was definitely using it wrong! Okay I see it working as expected now. I was confused by the /bin/xxx/view page and thought it was my final output.

Thanks!

[ahmadnassri]

perhaps better documentation is needed then :)