Feature Request - Pretty Print XML in network responses

[timki...@gmail.com]

I'm working with a backend that returns XML and this is how the Preview AND Response tabs look for the network item. I would love to see the XML be pretty printed, at least in the Preview tab. I usually end up copying the XML and pasting into my editor and autoformatting it there.

[PhistucK]

I like the idea.

☆PhistucK

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:21 PM, <timki...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm working with a backend that returns XML and this is how the Preview AND Response tabs look for the network item. I would love to see the XML be pretty printed, at least in the Preview tab. I usually end up copying the XML and pasting into my editor and autoformatting it there.

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[Andrey Sidorov]

Would be even more useful to make last request/response objects available via command line api [1], for example $_1.request.header['Content-Type'], $_2.response.body etc

Same way as inspected DOM nodes are available as $1 .. $5

1) - https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/commandline-api

Andrey

[johnj...@chromium.org]

Hi Tim ;-)

I think you could accomplish this with chrome devtools extensions.

In your devtools extension JS file, 

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/devtools.html

add a listener for request finish:

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/devtools_network.html#event-onRequestFinished

The result is a JSON object in HAR format:

http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/har-12-spec/

If you see XML you can get the content

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/devtools_network.html#method-Request-getContent

pass it through one of the javascript XML beautifiers, and put the output in a panel:

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/devtools_panels.html

You can also open a feature request on crbug.com and ask other folks using XML to star the request to encourage its development.

jjb

[Tim Kindberg]

Very cool thanks!

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Thanks,

Tim Kindberg