REST tools support for development and testing [closed]

Question

There is a similar question here but it only covers some of the issues below.

We have a client who requires web services using REST.

We have tons of experience using SOAP and over time have gathered together a really good set of tools for SOAP development and testing e.g.

• soapUI
• Eclipse plugins
• wsdl2java
• WSStudio

By "tools" I mean a product "out of the box" that we can start using. I'm not talking about cutting code to "roll our own" using Ajax or whatever.

The tool set for REST doesn't seem to be nearly as mature?

• What tools are out there (we use C# and Java mainly) ?

• Do the tools handle GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE?

• Is there a decent Eclipse plugin?

• Is there a decent client testing application like WSStudio where you point the tool to the WSDL and it generates a proxy on the fly with the appropriate methods and inputs and you simple type the data in?

• Are there any good package monitoring tools that allow you to look at the data? (I'm not thinking about sniffers like Wireshark here but rather things like soapUI that allow you to see the request / response) ?

Answer 1

I googled and found this plugin for chrome.

POSTman REST Client.

Answer 2

For starters, you need a tool that lets you construct an arbitrary HTTP request (including headers such as content-type, HTTP method, HTTP authentication and request body) and inspect the HTTP response (including status code, headers and response body). It's nice if it's scriptable tool.

Have a look at:

• Eclipse HTTP Client
• rest-client - standalone Java GUI application and plugin (See also at nodeclipse)

To auto-generate a proxy I guess you are looking for something that parses WADL, the REST answer to WSDL. Unfortunately, I do not know anything like that.