New HAL Client

[Icke Bins]

Hi, 

I created a new HAL Client. Primary intent was to test our own HAL APIs and to present a not too technical UI a non-developer can understand.

Can be found here:

https://ickbinet.github.io/hal-client/src/main/index.html

Examples:

Explore hypermedia-movies-demo.herokuapp.com

Explore rwcbook08.herokuapp.com

This is version 0.1 - the first try. So please be patient with the result :)

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HAL Client can be used to try out HAL and HAL-FORMS APIs.

• Supported response content types are: application/prs.hal-forms+json, application/hal+json and application/json. All other types are displayed in a sandboxed iframe.

• HAL-FORMS are supported for content types application/json, application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data.

• The app is created with plain HTML/CSS/ES, no frameworks, no build.

• Manually tested (clicked through) against: https://rwcbook08.herokuapp.com/task/ and https://hypermedia-movies-demo.herokuapp.com/api. Thanks to Mike Amundsen and Kai Tödter for providing these example apps.

Configuration

• Done via the uri fragment (anything after the # in the URL).

• config parameters are separated by ~

• parameters

  • uri: the URI template of the HAL resource to inspect
  • headers: optional request headers like "authentication"
  • theme: dark or light

Planned

• support _hsource, see: https://rwcbook.github.io/hal-forms/#_the_hal_forms_query_string_registry

• it und ui tests

License

• THE BEER-WARE LICENSE: https://spdx.org/licenses/Beerware.html

Contribute

• Bugs, feature requests etc - create an issue.

• Features, bugfixes etc. - create a pull request.

• Any code polishing is always welcome.

• Formatter: deno fmt for js, css/html: vscode built-in

• Test: deno test