ain VS Lama2

Hope you enjoyed this post. The shell script is in nascent stage only, you can iteratively refine it to send more HTTP requests like POST, PUT and DELETE. Or you can make use of the awesome command line utilities available to make HTTP requests like HTTPie, HTTP Prompt and ain.

Based on insights and learnings from building our other Open source CLI tool called Lama2, an API Client Manager that is completely built upon Golang and has better compatibility for various OS and OS architectures, we decided to... Continue reading the full article at https://journal.hexmos.com/developer-markdown-blog-hexmos-glee/

I like to use java or nodejs to automate http tests. But I built this for my functional and testers coworkers because they don't know how to program. They have another skills. At the end I realized that dsl is faster than repetitive http calls and body parsers.

Also if you check this https://gist.github.com/jrichardsz/8f2f8c0d25af7abc1e2f1d80a... in which with one minute run, I automated several http calls. I also generate a report like karate, cucumber, etc

Nice tool bro, I will check it https://github.com/HexmosTech/Lama2 to get some ideas for my framework

PD: Your install readme is similar to mine :b . Were you inspired by NVM?

Thanks for share

Get Source File

- Github: https://github.com/HexmosTech/Lama2

Background story:

The story begins more than a year back, when our team at Hexmos wanted to collaborate on APIs in a simple and straightforward way.

Our engineering infrastructure is split into dozens of self-contained software services. We deal with 100s of internal APIs, and so felt a need for a robust workflow for defining, sharing and updating APIs within our teams.

Traditional solutions such as Postman/Insomnia implement the collaboration features within their applications, and also tend to charge a fee for collaboration. We felt using git is the right way to collaborate on APIs, rather than any custom built solution. So, in a matter of 2 days we got a regex-based prototype DSL language to store API files.

Lots of issues cropped up over time, but we kept making improvements to Lama2 as needs arose. We accumulated 100s of API files over time. Then, we decided that the tool deserves to be out there, benefiting teams that want to collaborate on APIs over git. So, to make it happen, first we invested into formalising the grammar, and implementing the DSL as a hand-written recursive descent parser. Then we invested into helpful documentation, demos and so on. Once we had the basics, we released Lama2 into the world.

Future tasks:

- Create human-friendly syntax for specifying websocket APIs, basic testing, etc

Github: https://github.com/HexmosTech/Lama2