Spring REST Docs to Postman/Insomnia Converter

This project collects cURL commands generated by Spring REST Docs and converts them to a Postman or Insomnia collection.

Output formats:

• Postman Collection Format v2.1.0
• Insomnia export format v3

Spring REST Docs is an awesome tool to generate documentation out of tests, but no API playground is provided out of the box. Tools like Postman or Insomnia offer lots of features to play with APIs and this project helps to bootstrap Postman and Insomnia collections from Spring REST Docs cURL snippets. Such a feature has been requested by several people, for example in Spring REST Docs issue 47.

This project can also be used with Spring Auto REST Docs because the very same cURL snippets are generated.

Installation

For usage on command line, install globally

npm install -g restdocs-to-postman

For programmatic usage, install in project

npm install --save restdocs-to-postman

Command Line Usage

restdocs-to-postman --input generated-snippets --export-format postman --determine-folder secondLastFolder --output postman-collection.json

From the given folder, all folders are recursively scanned for curl-request.adoc and curl-request.md files. Requests can be sorted into folders with --determine-folder secondLastFolder. The function secondLastFolder is the only one for now and puts a request from ../items/get/curl-request.adoc into a folder called item. Host and header replacements can be used with --replacements replacements.json. See replacement-example.json for an example of a replacement file.

Programmatic Usage

const converter = require('restdocs-to-postman');

// Convert Spring REST Docs cURL commands to Postman/Insomnia collections
const folderToScan = './target/generated-snippets';
const exportFormat = 'postman';
const replacements = {
  host: {
    before: 'http://localhost:8080',
    after: '{{host}}'
  },
  headers: [
    {
      name: 'Authorization',
      newValue: '{{oauth2Token}}'
     }
  ]
};
const output = converter.convert({folderToScan, exportFormat, replacements});

// Print the result
console.log(output);

Running Tests

Run all tests

npm test

Contributing

• Submit a Pull Request for any enhancement you made.
• Create an issue describing your particular problem.

License

restdocs-to-postman is Open Source software released under the Apache 2.0 license.