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Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text

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460 points flykespice | 2 comments | 20 Jun 25 03:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.447s | source
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laerus ◴[20 Jun 25 04:48 UTC] No.44324825[source]▶
What's missing from Hurl is snapshot testing. After using `insta` for testing APIs, I cannot go back.
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whilenot-dev ◴[20 Jun 25 06:02 UTC] No.44325117[source]▶
What's your value proposition for snapshots and why can't that already be fulfilled with full body checks? https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl?tab=readme-ov-file...
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1. laerus ◴[20 Jun 25 06:32 UTC] No.44325237[source]▶
Snapshots diff current with previous output and I only have to accept or reject the diff. I don't have to write the expected response myself. Snapshots can also stub out parts of the response that are not determistic.
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2. adelineJoOs ◴[20 Jun 25 08:07 UTC] No.44325621[source]▶
> Snapshots can also stub out parts of the response that are not determistic.

TIL! The way I knew to do it was to have a mock implementation that behaved like the real thing, expect for data/time/uuids/..., where there was just a placeholder. Snapshot tests being able to "mask" those non-deterministic parts sounds cool!