Quest

A cli for going on a http fetch re-quest. "Quests" are GET, POST, etc that are configured via a quest file with configurable variables, parameters, and headers which are used to build queries mapped to eacy to remember names.

Install

Install is via cargo right now.

cargo install --git git@github.com/theelderbeever/quest.git

Usage

Your Quest should you choose to accept it...

A quest file, ./.quests by default, might look something like

headers:
  - name: x-secret-key
    valueFromEnv: SUPER_SECRET
  - name: hello
    value: world
vars: []
params:
  - name: param1
    value: value1
quests:
  - name: getHttpBin
    method: get
    url: https://httpbin.org/${path-param}
    headers: []
    vars:
      - name: path-param
        value: get
    params:
      - name: get-param
        value: get-value
  - name: postHttpBin
    method: post
    url: https://httpbin.org/${path-param}
    headers: []
    vars:
      - name: path-param
        value: post
    params:
      - name: post-param
        value: post-value
    json: |
      { "hello": "world" }

A quick list shows that I have GET and POST available for httpbin and a var named path-param configured.

❯ quest ls
"./quests.yaml"
METHOD  NAME        VARS
GET     httpbin     path-param
POST    httpbin     path-param

Going on a quest

Now if we perform a GET we will see that

• The url in quest.yaml has had ${path-param} replaced with the value get defined in .methods.get.vars
• Query params from the default .params and .methods.get.params have been merged and added
• Our custom header from .headers has been added hello: world along with x-secret-key: keepitsecretkeepissafe which was read in from an environment variable (these can be provided via a .env file)
• The request has been sent and the body returned

❯ SUPER_SECRET=keepitsecretkeepissafe quest go getHttpBin | jq
{
  "args": {
    "get-param": "value",
    "param1": "value"
  },
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, br, deflate",
    "Hello": "world",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-66a1be12-771de04c1113db6c0f47de6b",
    "X-Secret-Key": "keepitsecretkeepissafe"
  },
  "origin": "76.155.80.50",
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/get?get-param=value&param1=value"
}

Doing the same with POST you can see the same things were done as above as well as the json field was filled in

❯ SUPER_SECRET=keepitsecretkeepissafe quest go postHttpBin | jq
{
  "args": {
    "param1": "value",
    "post-param": "value"
  },
  "data": "\"{ \\\"hello\\\": \\\"world\\\" }\"",
  "files": {},
  "form": {},
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, br, deflate",
    "Content-Length": "26",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Hello": "world",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-66a1be78-5de7497157011e01650640eb",
    "X-Secret-Key": "keepitsecretkeepissafe"
  },
  "json": "{ \"hello\": \"world\" }",
  "origin": "76.155.80.50",
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/post?param1=value&post-param=value"
}

On the fly updates to your quest

Variables, Headers, and Params can all be overriden or added to from the command line at runtime. Consider our GET quest from before

❯ SUPER_SECRET=keepitsecretkeepissafe quest get httpbin | jq

If we wanted to add an extra param to the ones we already have configured this could be done with the -p/--param flag shown below. The same is available for headers -H/--header and variables -v/--var.

❯ SUPER_SECRET=keepitsecretkeepissafe quest get httpbin --param new-param=new-value | jq