feat: external body support

Author: boltlessengineer

lua/rest-nvim/client/curl/cli.lua

@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ function builder.file(file)
     return
   end
   -- FIXME: should normalize/expand the file path
-  return { "-d", "@" .. file }
+  return { "--data-binary", "@" .. file }
 end
 
 ---@package
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ function builder.build(request)
     if request.body.__TYPE == "form" then
       table.insert(args, builder.form(request.body.data))
     elseif request.body.__TYPE == "external" then
-      -- TODO: external body (how intellij works?)
+      table.insert(args, builder.file(request.body.data.path))
     else
       table.insert(args, builder.raw_body(request.body.data))
     end

lua/rest-nvim/parser/init.lua

@@ -98,10 +98,14 @@ function M.parse_body(body_node, source, context)
       end
     end
   elseif body.__TYPE == "external" then
+    local path = assert(get_node_field_text(body_node, "path", source))
+    -- TODO: make sure expand happens in `.http` file
+    path = vim.fs.normalize(vim.fs.joinpath(vim.fn.expand("%:h"), path))
     body.data = {
-      name = assert(get_node_field_text(body_node, "name", source)),
-      path = assert(get_node_field_text(body_node, "path", source)),
+      name = get_node_field_text(body_node, "name", source),
+      path = path,
     }
+    vim.print(body.data.path)
   elseif body.__TYPE == "graphql" then
     logger.error("graphql body is not supported yet")
   end

spec/client_curl_cli_spec.lua

@@ -51,6 +51,23 @@ describe("curl cli builder", function()
     })
     assert.same({ "http://localhost:8000", "-X", "POST", "--data-raw", json_text }, args)
   end)
+  it("from POST request with external body", function ()
+    local args = builder.build({
+      context = Context:new(),
+      method = "POST",
+      url = "http://localhost:8000",
+      headers = {
+      },
+      handlers = {},
+      body = {
+        __TYPE = "external",
+        data = {
+          path = "spec/test_server/post_json.json"
+        },
+      },
+    })
+    assert.same({ "http://localhost:8000", "-X", "POST", "--data-binary", "@spec/test_server/post_json.json" }, args)
+  end)
 end)
 
 describe("curl cli response parser", function()

spec/test_server/post_json.http

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+POST http://localhost:8000/post/json
+Content-Type: application/json
+
+< ./post_json.json

spec/test_server/post_json.json

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+    "asdf": 123
+}