Add an HTTPX cli. 😇 #1212
Add an HTTPX cli. 😇 #1212
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Feel free to mention @willmcgugan if you have any questions re the Rich side of things. :) |
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Lookin nice... ⚡️
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Rivaling httpie in no time! |
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Some TODO items...
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| def print_request_headers(request: httpx.Request) -> None: | ||
| console = rich.console.Console() | ||
| http_text = format_request_headers(request) | ||
| syntax = rich.syntax.Syntax(http_text, "http", theme="ansi_dark", word_wrap=True) |
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Any particular reason for going with theme="ansi_dark" instead of background_color="default"?
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Either the ansi_light and ansi_dark themes render okay on both light and dark console backgrounds...
Using background_color="default" is really nice with monokai on dark consoles, but terrible on light backgrounds...
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Gotcha. I have a dark terminal, so I preferred the default theme. Perhaps adding a --theme={default,dark,light} option could be an thing?
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So, perhaps the route to go down here is to publish this under a separate The benefit there would be that we're not tied to bumping up |
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Closing this, in favour of a little beta over here: https://github.com/encode/httpx-cli |
Given just how wonderful the
clickandrichpackages are these days, we could do some pretty wonderful stuff with anhttpxcommand line tool, pretty easily.Here's a pull request that demonstrates the basics, along with a couple of examples.
Installation is
pip install httpx[cli].Then we get:
$ httpx https://httpbin.org/post -m POST -j '{"hello": "world"}'Obviously there's more too it that this, in particular you'd want...
And a few bits of other functionality, such as...
--stream- Disable formatting, and just display the content as it arrives.--upload- Set upload content directly from a file.--download- Download directly to a file. Default to displaying a progress bar if we're on a terminal display.--raise-for-status- Return a non-zero error code, and display as an error, rather than the response itself.--max-redirects,--http2- Client-level controls that are not available inhttpx.request, but that we might want in the cli.But some things that I think are nice about this are:
httpxAPI, which I think could really help users get to grips with both of them.Normally I might think of this kind of thing as scope-creep, but if we can make it tie in really nicely, then perhaps it's just a really nice way to make
httpxan all-round more valuable tool?Obvs. https://httpie.org/ exists and is fantastic, but I can still see the value in us presenting an alternative here, right?