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Keep your Requests In Files.
RIF is a command-line tool that allows you to store repetitive and complex HTTP requests as files to make testing and interacting with HTTP APIs a breeze.
To get started, we will be making a simple GET request to httpbin.org/get. This endpoint returns the details of GET requests back to the client as JSON.
We will be passing in a URL parameter called message that is parameterised
using RIFs variable templating feature.
Open your editor of choice and save the following file to your computer
as gethttpbin.rif:
rif_version: 0
url: "http://httpbin.org/get?message=hello%20$(place)"
method: "GET"
variables:
place:
type: "string"
default: "world"
Next, open your terminal in the same location and run RIF, passing in the file you just created:
$ rif ./gethttpbin.rif
If all goes well you should see something like the following:
{
"args": {
"message": "hello world"
},
"headers": {
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
"Connection": "close",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"User-Agent": "RIF/0.2.0"
},
"origin": "<YOUR IP ADDRESS>",
"url": "http://httpbin.org/get?message=hello world"
}
Now let's use RIF's variable templating feature to override our welcome message. Paste the following command into your terminal:
$ rif ./gethttpbin.rif place=universe
You should now see that the response has changed:
{
"args": {
"message": "hello universe"
},
"headers": {
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
"Connection": "close",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"User-Agent": "RIF/0.2.0"
},
"origin": "<YOUR IP ADDRESS>",
"url": "http://httpbin.org/get?message=hello universe"
}
Congratulations! You have just made and executed your first .rif file!
To install/upgrade RIF on MacOS use the RIF brew tap:
brew install jonathanlloyd/rif/rif
To install/upgrade RIF on a standard 64bit linux install, run the following in your shell:
curl -Lo rif.tar $(curl https://api.github.com/repos/jonathanlloyd/rif/releases/latest 2>/dev/null | grep -o http[^[:space:]]*linux_amd64\.tar\.gz) 2>/dev/null && tar -xf rif.tar rif && chmod +x rif && sudo mv rif /usr/local/bin/rif && rm ./rif.tar && rif --help && rif --version
To verify that you have installed RIF correctly, run the following command in your terminal:
$ rif --version
If RIF is correctly installed you should see the version and build number printed to the screen:
Version: <expected version number>
Build: <build number>
RIF is distributed as a single binary executable. To install it all you need to do is download the correct binary from the downloads page and put it somewhere in your path.