vim-http-client : Make HTTP requests from Vim without wrestling the command line!
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== Pretty description and demo at https://github.com/aquach/vim-http-client ==
Make HTTP requests from Vim with the HTTP format you already know, rather than wrestling with curl -X POST -b cookie=$1 -F csrf_token=$2 -F "request={\"user_id\":123}" http://example.org! Then parse the results right in Vim, syntax highlighted the way you expect!
Usage
Put your cursor anywhere in a newline-delimited block of text and hit <Leader>tt. vim-http-client will parse the text into a HTTP request, execute it, and display its results will appear in a split. You can also directly invoke the HTTP client with :call HTTPClientDoRequest()<cr>. The format mirrors HTTP's format:
# Comments start with #.
# First request.
<method> <url>
<header-name-1>: <header-value-1>
<header-name-2>: <header-value-2>
...
<header-name-n>: <header-value-n>
<body>
# Second request.
<method> <url>
<header-name-1>: <header-value-1>
<header-name-2>: <header-value-2>
...
<header-name-n>: <header-value-n>
<body>
Depending on where you put your cursor, the first or second request will execute. You can also substitute variables anywhere in the request:
# Second request.
# :foo = bar
POST http://httpbin.org/post
{
"data": ":foo",
"otherkey": "hello"
}
Each variable lives in a separate commented line and always starts with a colon. Variables are substituted with simple string substitution.
If you'd like to pass form-encoded data, set your body like this:
<key-1>=<value-1>
<key-2>=<value-2>
...
<key-n>=<value-n>
See examples/examples.txt for more examples.
The output appears in a new split. Based on the Content-Type header of the HTTP response, vim-http-client chooses a filetype for syntax highlighting. It currently supports XML, JSON, and HTML; all others will get ft=text.
Configuration
g:http_client_bind_hotkey (default 1)
Controls whether or not <Leader>tt will run the HTTP client. Regardless of the setting, vim-http-client will not overwrite your existing <Leader>tt mapping if it exists.
Contributing
This plugin is currently quite simple. Contributions, suggestions, and feedback are all welcomed! |
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Installation
vim-http-client requires Vim compiled with python support and the python requests library.
You likely have Python support, but you can check with vim --version | grep +python. MacVim comes with Python support.
To check if you have the requests library, try python -c 'import requests'. If you get an error, try pip install requests to get the library. Many distros ship Python support with Vim and the requests library with Python.
Once you have these, use your favorite Vim plugin manager to install aquach/vim-http-client, or copy plugin and doc into your .vim folder. |
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| vim-http-client-1.1.tgz |
1.1 |
2015-04-01 |
7.0 |
A Quach |
* Allow global variables that affect all requests in the buffer by prefixing the variable with $.
* Pretty print response JSON.
* Allow setting of filetype for JSON content type. Defaults to javascript. |
| vim-http-client-1.0.tgz |
1.0 |
2015-03-19 |
7.0 |
A Quach |
Initial upload |
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