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		xnorswap 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text I like this approach. Is your expected.json the actual response body, or is it an object containing body, status, header values, and time-taken, etc?

gavinray 3 months ago [–]

It's only the response body, but that's due to not having a usecase to validate headers or status code.

I really like it because it serves 3 purposes:

- API docs/examples that you can interact with

- Test cases

- Manually invoking API endpoints when working on the underlying code, in an iterative loop

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