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Support for Mikrotik RouterOS's /tool/fetch CLI command (`routeros-fetch`)

Open mobileskyfi opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

I created a new code generator for Mikrotik RouterOS's CLI command /tool fetch url=.... The spec is here: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Fetch

Mikrotik makes routers with a powerful scripting langange (.rsc), and supports making web service calls via the /tool/fetch command. But the syntax requires some specific string escapes and OS has a primitive toolchain - so existing Postman code generators like curl or http are pretty far from a cut-and-paste job.

Following the CONTRIBUTING.md guide... I used npm run boilerplate routeros-fetch to create a new one, borrowing code from the http and curl codegens to deal with options/body/headers. I have not looked at the unit/etc tests much yet (and would be before doing pull request) – but the basic of my routers-fetch codegen seem to create working snippet for RouterOS /tool/fetch. At least form the CLI/test code - I'd really like to test my codegen code in the actual Postman GUI (see question below) before doing any pull request but don't know how to do that!

Also had a other questions:

  • Is there a more specific process than what in the CONTRIBUTING guide to pull requests?
  • Is there any way to load a "development" code generator into to the Postman GUI so it appear in the list? I kinda want to use the GUI to run some additional test and generate the test cases ;).
  • What is the general scheme for "unconvertible" things in a Request? - as there are some things in a Postman Request that cannot be done using RouterOS /tool/fetch. Both curl and http codegen do not return any errors in the callback, so was not clear how to provide errors/issues in conversion. Right now, I just add code comment to the snippet generated with "potential problems" rather than figuring out how to provide a "hard" error in callback (so it's null).

mobileskyfi avatar Sep 20 '24 17:09 mobileskyfi

  • Is there any way to load a "development" code generator into to the Postman GUI so it appear in the list? I kinda want to use the GUI to run some additional test and generate the test cases ;).

Guess not? #620

mobileskyfi avatar Sep 20 '24 17:09 mobileskyfi

Is there something else I need to do?

I'd like be able to actually use my codegen in Postman. And I cannot figure out to even load it locally in the Postman App.

mobileskyfi avatar Oct 01 '24 18:10 mobileskyfi