Posterer
Posterer is a JavaFX application to manage and send data to HTTP-based services such as SOAP and REST.
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Posterer's Origins
It's handy to have an app that you can use to fire off HTTP transactions at services - Like a web browser for example. But browsers are driven by HTML, and for testing Web Services (i.e. SOAP) you need finer grain control. On Firefox, there is the Poster plug-in. I've used this a lot and it's been very useful.
As the number and the authentication and authorization requirements for hitting web services increase, Poster is showing it's age. I need more power at my finger tips, so I am writing a poster-er. And here it is. Posterer.
Some feature:
- Store end-points and payloads
- Asynchronous requests
- Proxy control
- Call statistics
- Full headers
- Crypto controls
Installation
Posterer requires JavaFX 8, and therefore Java 8. There's plenty of people still on Java 7 - To use Posterer along-side a Java 7 installation I recommend an off-line, silent, installation of Java 8 in a user-managed directory, say, /opt/java/java8:
<java8-install-exe> /s INSTALLDIR=/opt/java/java8
Design Decisions
The main decision has been the choice of JavaFX 8 (and Java 8) over JavaFX 2.2 (and Java 7). JavaFX 8 adds more useful features to the basic core JavaFX objects, plus some functional programming features of Java 8.
Given that there are many options to provide the HTTP transport framework (and perhaps other network protocols and transports), Google Guice was chosen to provide lightweight IOC to minimize linkage. Initially, Posterer comes with Apache HTTP client.
License
Posterer - Copyright 2015 technosf [https://github.com/technosf]
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.