hurl - convert curl request to hurl code
Hurl currently is one of my favorite #tools to test APIs.
We can convert curl command to hurl code easily with this command:
cat sample.curl | hurlfmt --in curl
I noticed though that when the input has multilines, the break-line escaping was causing issues. Example:
curl --location 'http://localhost:8080/settings' \
--header 'X-User-Id: 1234' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer CrAzY-hAsH' \
--data '{
"amount": 100000,
"due_date": "2024-07-23"
}'
This 👆 causes hurlfmt to fail with a message like this:
Can not parse curl command at line 1: Invalid escape at column 71
The solution I used was to use tr to delete the problematic chars:
cat sample.curl
| tr -d '\\\n' \
| hurlfmt --in curl