APIX

Command line interface tool for calling apis, persist and sharing them.

What is it ?

It's a command line tool replacement for :

• postman
• curl / wget ...

Warning

This package is not yet ready to be used. it's in conception phase.

Usage

He is an example of how you'll be able to use it.

mkdir myrepo
cd myrepo
git init # optional, but it's better to make a project with git to share it
apix init # create a project with a default name
ls -al
drwxrwxr-x 4 user user  4096 mars  27 20:06 .
drwxrwxr-x 8 user user  4096 mars  27 20:43 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user   223 mars  27 20:04 apix.api.resource.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user   258 mars  27 20:04 apix.request.resource.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user   186 mars  27 20:04 apix.resource.resource.yml
# import swagger openapi definition file that will be saved in kubernetes like format that is easier to edit than openapi
apix import github https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/rest-api-description/main/descriptions/api.github.com/api.github.com.yaml
# new github directory added
ls -al
drwxrwxr-x 4 user user  4096 mars  27 20:06 .
drwxrwxr-x 8 user user  4096 mars  27 20:43 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user   223 mars  27 20:04 apix.api.resource.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user   258 mars  27 20:04 apix.request.resource.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user   186 mars  27 20:04 apix.resource.resource.yml
drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 65536 mars  27 20:06 github
# 745 new api endpoints added, one kubernetes like file for each
ls github | wc -l
745
# share your imported api
git add .
git commit -m "chore: imported github api"
# executing requests
apix request get https://api.github.com/users/torvalds
# same as : request by swagger operation id
apix exec users.get-by-username 
Enter 'username': torvalds # automaticaly ask for missing parameters

Executing request: 'apix request get https://api.github.com/users/torvalds'
Status: 200 OK

{
  login: 'torvalds',
  id: 1024025,
  node_id: 'MDQ6VXNlcjEwMjQwMjU=',
  avatar_url: 'https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1024025?v=4',
  gravatar_id: '',
  url: 'https://api.github.com/users/torvalds',
  html_url: 'https://github.com/torvalds',
  followers_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/torvalds/followers',
  following_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/torvalds/following{/other_user}',
  gists_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/torvalds/gists{/gist_id}',
  starred_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/torvalds/starred{/owner}{/repo}',
  subscriptions_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/torvalds/subscriptions',
  organizations_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/torvalds/orgs',
  repos_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/torvalds/repos',
  events_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/torvalds/events{/privacy}',
  received_events_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/torvalds/received_events',
  type: 'User',
  site_admin: false,
  name: 'Linus Torvalds',
  company: 'Linux Foundation',
  blog: '',
  location: 'Portland, OR',
  email: null,
  hireable: null,
  bio: null,
  twitter_username: null,
  public_repos: 6,
  public_gists: 0,
  followers: 132343,
  following: 0,
  created_at: '2011-09-03T15:26:22Z',
  updated_at: '2021-01-10T19:36:11Z'
}