Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text

Hi Hurl maintainer here, happy to answer any question and get feedbacks!

So, myself and many folks I know have taken to writing tests in the form of ".http" files that can be executed by IDE extensions in VS Code/IDEA.

Those basically go in the form

   POST http://localhost:8080/api/foo
   Content-Type: application/json

   { "some": "body" }

And then we have a 1-to-1 mapping of "expected.json" outputs for integration tests.

We use a bespoke bash script to run these .http file with cURL, and then compare the outputs with jq, log success/failure to console, and write "actual.json"

Can I use HURL in a similar way? Essentially an IDE-runnable example HTTP request that references a JSON file as the expected output?

And then run HURL over a directory of these files?

I like this approach.

Is your expected.json the actual response body, or is it an object containing body, status, header values, and time-taken, etc?