Native support for REST tests (feature request)

[sshipway]

Can we add REST tests as a native check type? Not sure how this should be done, but maybe with parameters has to go in and a list of tests of outputfield-compare-value tests. This would remove the need for complex wget|jq command definitions to perform this sort of API tests.

[aelsabbahy]

Feel free to create a new focused feature request ticket bases on our chat here: https://github.com/aelsabbahy/goss/issues/375#issuecomment-564853916

For jq type stuff, I was thinking of eventually adding a jmespath matcher. The one challenge currently is io.readers are handled differently than everything else in Goss and that would need to be addressed prior to jmespath matcher being useful.

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[aelsabbahy]

Since this is the best named story, I'll make this the official story to track this.

As per my comment here: https://github.com/aelsabbahy/goss/issues/375#issuecomment-564853916

Adding the method, request-body, and url seems like a useful enhancement.

This is approved for anyone that would like to work on this. If there are further changes, we can discuss it further here.

[aelsabbahy]

I think this might was closed by #647

Please let me know if it's not.