Pretty Print only works on "httpyac.responseViewContent": "body"

[chrismalek]

Hello,

First thanks for all the work on this. This is really a stellar plugin.

I have been watching httpyac closely. I used rest client all day everyday. However, I like some of the subtle features of httpyac and have been wanting to switch over..

I tried to make a switch today to httpyac but the pretty print only seems to work with this setting.

{
"httpyac.responseViewContent": "body"
}

I prefer this setting when debugging APIs however the pretty print does not seem to work. Is that a bug or a "feature"?

{
"httpyac.responseViewContent": "exchange"
}

[AnWeber]

Rather something for which I have not yet found time and is also not quite simple. The reason is that for *.http files there is no DocumentFormattingEditProvider registered. This would have to be able to handle different formatting specifications at the same time (JSON, Javascript, XML, ...). In principle, one could certainly copy that from vetur.
Currently I rely completely on the formatting used by vscode, only for JSON I try to partially achieve a better format using JSON.stringify.

[chrismalek]

Ok thanks for the reply.

I work with mostly xml all day and noticed that XML is not formatted for "httpyac.responseViewContent": "body" but your response makes me understand why.

I know rest-client handles the pretty printing. I am guessing there are some implementation differences between how this library and that do the rendering so maybe a similar approach is not available.

To be honest, I don't know anything about the vscode extension development space and I am just a humble user of extensions provided by the community.

[AnWeber]

Thanks for the hint with rest-client. I found the place that does the formatting. I create an issue for the function.

[AnWeber]

created issue #56

[chrismalek]

You rock!

[AnWeber]

But it will be the economy version, which only works for the output. It will not be able to format the self-written Http files. But I think that will help you in your case.

[AnWeber]

I have now implemented the automatic XML formatting with version 2.21.0. I use xml-formatter for formatting xml content.

[chrismalek]

This pretty printer was working on XML for a while. In the last few days it seems to have broken. I need to go through the latest release and figure out what changed.

[AnWeber]

I got reported out of memory error with large files. I wanted to limit max pretty print size to 1Mb but just made 1Kb. Got an issue for that in httpyac repo and fixed it already. Will release it soon.

[chrismalek]

AnWeber..you rock...love it! :-)

[AnWeber]

I just released version 4.3.0 which fixes this error.