sphinxcontrib-httpexample 1.3

Features

• Directive for generating various RESTful HTTP API call examples from single HTTP request.

• Supported tools:

  • curl

  • wget

  • httpie

  • python-requests

Examples

This extension has been used at least in the following documentations:

• http://plonerestapi.readthedocs.org/

• http://sphinxcontrib-httpexample.readthedocs.org/

• https://guillotina.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Documentation

Full documentation for end users can be found in the “docs” folder. It is also available online at http://sphinxcontrib-httpexample.readthedocs.org/

Installation

Add sphinxcontrib-httpexample into requirements of your product documentation and into the configuration file of your Sphinx documentation next to sphincontrib-httpdomain as follows:

extensions = ['sphinxcontrib.httpdomain', 'sphinxcontrib.httpexample']

License

The project is licensed under the GPLv2.

1.3 (2024-08-18)

• Add new directive .. http:example-block:: to allow use with Sphinx tab libraries like sphinx-inline-tabs or sphinx-design. [AWhetter]

1.2 (2024-08-17)

• Add new HTTP example builder plone-javascript [datakurre]

• Fix tabbing to no longer depend on jQuery [datakurre]

• Fix tabbing to support arrow key navigation [datakurre]

• Fix tab key to stop at tab list only once [datakurre]

• Fix requests builder to flatten simple values in form data [datakurre]

• Fix requests builder to pass form data as dictionary [datakurre]

• Change JavaScript-based tabbing to no longer require JQuery [datakurre]

1.1 (2021-12-25)

• Add support for docutils 0.17.x [kvondersaar, datakurre]

• Add support for Python 3.8 [datakurre]

• Fix example tabs accessibility [datakurre]

1.0 (2021-09-10)

• The curl command builder will now always specify a method [LefterisJP]

0.11.0 (2021-05-14)

• Change to quote examples with “ rather than ‘ [datakurre]

• Fix Sphinx deprecation warnings and support Sphinx 4.x] [kkrypt0nn, AWhetter]

• Fix to use ast.unparse instead astunparse on Python >= 3.9 [datakurre]

0.10.3 (2019-05-01)

• Re-release 0.10.2 with wheel [datakurre]

0.10.2 (2019-05-01)

• Add support for inline response examples without HTTP version (e.g. HTTP 200 OK) [datakurre]

• Fix regression where support for reading request examples from external files was broken since 0.10.0 [datakurre]

0.10.1 (2019-03-19)

• Fix issue where it was not possible to request exmples with float values in payload JSON [fixes #42] [datakurre]

0.10.0 (2018-10-09)

• Add support of the URL query parameters, using the query field. Given a line :query param_name: param_value in an http example directive, the key value pair param_name, param_value will be added to the request URL (and excluded from further processing). [ludaavics]

  Example:

  GET /items HTTP/1.1
  Host: localhost
  Accept: application/json
  Authorization: Basic dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA==
  
  :query from: 20170101
  :query to: 20171231
  :query user_id: 12
  :query limit: 20
  :query sort: date(asc)

0.9.1 (2018-10-06)

• Fix packaging to include setup.cfg in sdist [datakurre]

• Add the guillotina docs (which now uses httpexample) [cdevienne]

0.9.0 (2018-07-22)

• Add support for inlining responses [cdevienne]

0.8.1 (2018-06-27)

• Fixed error when parsing top level json lists [AWhetter]

0.8.0 (2017-11-18)

• Fix to not strip out Accept/Content-Type headers in builders [dokai]

• Improve logic to detect a JSON content type [dokai]

• Use redirected input to pass request payload to httpie [dokai]

• Fix quoting of non-trivial HTTP headers in builders [dokai]

• Change to use declarative packaging (setup.cfg instead of setup.py) [datakurre]

0.7.0 (2017-10-21)

• Allow the URL scheme (http or https) to be configured [dokai]

• Quote the URL if it contains & characters in curl/httpie/wget examples [dokai]

0.6.1 (2017-05-11)

• Release as universal wheel [datakurre]

0.6.0 (2017-05-11)

• Support non-json requests [jaroel]

• Support application/json; charset=utf-8 [skyzyx]

0.5.2 (2017-03-09)

• Fix packaging to include the files in static #3 [csenger]

0.5.1 (2017-03-05)

• Update README and documentation [datakurre]

0.5.0 (2017-03-05)

• Change development status to beta [datakurre]

0.4.2 (2017-03-05)

• Fix issue where wget basic auth required challenge from backend, which is not always available [datakurre]

0.4.1 (2017-03-05)

• Fix issue where generate httpie-commands did not always set Accept and Content-Type -headers [datakurre]

0.4.0 (2017-03-05)

• Add support for wget [datakurre]

0.3.0 (2017-03-05)

• Add generic ‘Authorization’-header support [datakurre]

0.2.1 (2017-03-05)

• Fix issue where Authorization-header was always requires [datakurre]

• Fix raise proper exception when parsing bad requests [datakurre]

• Fix issue where httpie-builder did not quote values with spaces [datakurre]

• Fix link to python-requests’ documentation [datakurre]

0.2.0 (2017-03-05)

• Add support for GET requests [datakurre]

0.1.0 (2017-03-05)

• First release [datakurre]