Talend API Tester: Feature Request - Pasting parameters from browser dev tools
I have been tinkering in the Talend API Tester (v 25.8.1) and generally like it.
However, given it is a browser delivered plugin it seems to me the it is missing an ability to copy parameters from the the browser's Network tab.
For posting values a form data to a script through xhr
I can, for instance, trigger a request from an existing web application and see the parameters I have sent to a rest end point (the endpoint url is visible in the header section at the top). I can select the parameters and their values and copy them.
Of course for testing those parameters as-is the browser's replay-xhr is a nice tool. However, because it is unable to edit or add to those parameters the ability to test APIs that way is limited.
The advantage of Talend API Tester is that I can try those parameters and alter them for debugging problems that come up with one of my REST endpoints. However, having to procedurally add parameters and set things one at a time is a pain especially if there are quite a few parameters.
It would be nice to have a button to paste from clipboard a set of parameters from dev tools.
Dev Tools in at least the Chromium browsers allow for either a parsed view like:
player_id: 15179
project: 103
width: 1920
or a "source view" which looks more like:
------WebKitFormBoundaryY7ixXJRkB89jSL5U
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="player_id"
15179
------WebKitFormBoundaryY7ixXJRkB89jSL5U
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="project"
103
------WebKitFormBoundaryY7ixXJRkB89jSL5U
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="width"
1920
It would be ideal to be able to take whichever format to view is easy to parse ad turn it into prepopulated parameter inputs in Talend API.
Perhaps for a paid tier solution you might also consider support an HAR file (exportable via right click on a request in the browser's dev-tools' network tab) importer that would pull out request information to populate the tester with.
