[NFBCS] Accessible API Tester like Postman

[Timothy Breitenfeldt]

Insomnia seems to be everyone's suggestion, but adding arguments to
your query is very important if testing REST APIs, and I just cannot
consistently find a way to add arguments to my query using Insomnia. I
have never used curl beyond making HTTP requests in PHP. I am guessing
curl is command line based, is there a version of curl for windows?
I would rather not use a commandline tool when there are other tools
out there that can achieve the same job in far less time and effort.

Does anyone else have any suggestions of a tool that they use for testing APIs?

TJ Breitenfeldt

On 11/2/19, Chris Nestrud via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I haven't used Insomnia enough to come across that problem. I found out
> about
> it recently and I'm planning to use it in the next few months. Until now
> I've mostly just used curl or written tests in Python.
>
> Chris
>
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 09:44:21AM -0700, Timothy Breitenfeldt via NFBCS
> wrote:
>> Hi Chris, I appreciate the suggestion. I actually just tried Insomnia,
>> and found it to be mostly accessible, but I was struggling adding
>> arguments to my request. Everything else seemed to work well enough. I
>> tried using jaws and NVDA, but once I click on the query tab, and the
>> name and value edit boxes pop up, I can't add aditional arguments.
>> Under the initial name and value edit boxes it gives me is a couple of
>> unlabeled buttons , when  I click the first one it seems like it adds
>> new boxes for more arguments, but when I tab or arrow down, I am not
>> sure if my cursor starts jumping or if boxes are unlabeled because it
>> starts talking about some filter. When I navigate by e though, it
>> looks like there are new boxes, when I press enter though I have the
>> same problem as tabbing and arrowing to the boxes.
>>
>> Are you having this problem?
>>
>> This is very frustrating to not have a decent API tester, I am about
>> ready to just create my own tool.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> TJ Breitenfeldt
>>
>> On 11/2/19, Chris Nestrud via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> > Take a look at Insomnia, https://insomnia.rest.
>> >
>> > Only issue that I have is that it doesn't support the equivalent of
>> > curl's
>> > --resolve
>> > option.
>> >
>> > Chris
>> >
>> > On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 03:13:57PM -0700, Timothy Breitenfeldt via
>> > NFBCS
>> > wrote:
>> >> Hi, I am looking for an accessible API tester like Postman. I am a web
>> >> developer and frequently struggle with how to test my own APIs. I
>> >> usually right my own tests, but it is time consuming, and there are
>> >> already tools that are designed for this purpose. Postman is great
>> >> from what I have heard, but it is not accessible. There is an issue
>> >> that has been put in for improving the accessibility of Postman on
>> >> Github, but the developers are slow to respond and we haven't seen
>> >> anything yet.
>> >>
>> >> The issue is here:
>> >>
>> >> https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/3121
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone have any suggestions for other API testers I can use? It
>> >> shouldn't matter, but right now I am using java with Spring Boot to
>> >> build my APIs.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> TJ Breitenfeldt
>> >> --
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>> >> Timothy Breitenfeldt
>> >>
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