In this page, we suggest some tools you can use to test the REST API without needing to develop a REST consuming client application. Testing your REST requests is useful when you are developing client apps and similar things that interact with the REST endpoints.

Browsers

PositiveFor instance Firefox displays JSON and XML in a very readable format. 
Negative

A browser provides only limited control to tailor a request without further add-ons. Requests are sent as GET and you cannot add more request headers out of the box.

Tips

If you want to test on REST resources via  GET , which requires authetication to get assigned roles not provided to the anonymous user: log in to Magnolia first; open a new tab in the same window (using the same session); and then request the REST resource.

Upgrade the browser with add-ons to extend its possibilities to control the request.


 

Browser add-ons

cURL

cURL is a command line tool. It can be used on most well-known operating systems.

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PositiveVery flexible for tailoring the request (method, request headers, user credentials, and so on). Response can be further processed.
NegativeNot everybody likes command line tools. The response is not easy to read without further tooling. No out-of-the-box automatic URL encoding.
Tips

On the first attempt of a request, use the -i option to display all response headers.

If the response body is fine and delivers JSON, pretty-print and colorize the response body with tools such as jq.


Magnolia REST tools

See REST module: REST Tools.

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