[Feature] Define http request in a .http file

[tonsV2]

First of all, thanks for a great http client. I've recommended it to quite a few coworkers by now and a lot of appreciation has been returned!

Intellij has a build in http client which supports something called .http files.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2017/09/editor-based-rest-client/

To sum up the above link you can define http request in a file and have them executed.

Being able to define a file with various http requests and have that file executed by httpie would be so awesome! This could be used for stress testing, integration testing or executed in a CI pipeline for various reasons and probably several other use cases.

Any comments?

[GotoCode]

I think something similar was suggested by @dsego in this comment on #537, so there might be quite a bit of popular demand for such a feature.

[jkbrzt]

@GotoCode it’s coming—stay tuned!

[lisitsky]

Awesome feature for autotests! Can I help somehow with it?

[danslapman]

• https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient - visual studio code have a similiar (but not 100% compatible with IDEA) *.http files support

[stonecharioteer]

Is this feature still on the roadmap?

[jkbrzt]

@stonecharioteer Yes, it is! No timeline yet, though.

[ferenczy]

I have proposed a solution for such a feature in this feature request, maybe you'll find some inspiration there.

[tonsV2]

@jakubroztocil Are there any updates on this matter?

I've been needing this for quite a few years now and there might be people here, myself included, which would be willing to work on this.

[vtronko]

I guess, it's off the roadmap since Desktop app has more priority?

[devsdmf]

Do we have any expectations to prioritize this feature in the following weeks/months? I can help with the code if no one already started to work on that. Can I get a green light?

[adriens]

➕ 1️⃣ for this feature request ❣️

[afonsocarlos]

I'm also really interested in that one

[vzlobinsky]

Do we have any news regarding this feature? I assume many people need it and will love it :)

[adriens]

Do we have any news regarding this feature? I assume many people need it and will love it :)

Yes, please make this happen 🙏

[hbjydev]

Bump on this @jakubroztocil

[gijocode]

+1 waiting for this

[trodix]

+1

[zhangddjs]

is this feature still developing? seems four years passed haha

[adriens]

Yes, please make it happen 🙏 🙏 💟

[SKairinos]

Also waiting. It seems intuitive. Devs want to predefine requests and upload them them to their API's repo. Makes it ideal to collaborate

[paul-uz]

What are the alternatives to httpie that can run a .http file?

It's been 5 years, and it looks like this project is dead in the water?

[macromania]

IntelliJ released a tool to run .http files from terminal / command line:
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-cli.html

[victoraugustolls]

Any news here @jkbrzt??

[matthewadams]

Bonus for ability to add assertion capabilities so that entire test suites could be defined in .http files.

[adriens]

Bonus for ability to add assertion capabilities so that entire test suites could be defined in .http files.

Brilliant idea 🤩 @matthewadams

[Ben-Mack]

This feature is much needed, hope to see it soon. My use case is to load all parameters from file and seem like no way to do it now unless this is implemented.

[lucastamoios]

I would love to see this feature.

[HoldenLucas]

https://www.usebruno.com/

[aamehedi]

@GotoCode Is this feature still on the road-map?

[p10]

Would love to see it

[hjannasch]

Time is passing by, really love to see this released.

[p10]

found another solution -> https://httpyac.github.io/