Hermes: God of Thieves & Messengers

This is a very tiny REST client that currently only supports GET requests.

But WHY???

This is a continuation of the pat project I started a few years ago, but I quicky got the ick for webviews.

1. Postman froze my friend's macbook. MacOS skill issue to be honest
2. There are many beautiful and very funciton Electron-base solutions that take up +250MB of my storage
3. I don't have friends and ...
4. I needed something to do for the weekend.

Project setup

Follow the Get started guide to get rust setup.

Linux

(I haven't yet confirmed these instructions)

# RHEL/Fedora
sudo dnf install gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel meson desktop-file-utils pkgconf-devel

# Arch
sudo pacman -S gtk4 libadwaita meson desktop-file-utils pkg-config

MacOS

On macos you will need to run this verbatim

brew install gtk4 libadwaita meson desktop-file-utils gtksourceview5

Running the project

cargo run # obviously

Progress so far

I cannot stress this enough, I've been tempted to quit and opt for a different solution such as gtkx or flutter. Rust + GTK is a tall order. That said, we have the following working:

Request manipulation

• Custom url
• Custom request methods
• Custom headers (not the best experience but we're getting somewhere)
• Custom JSON body
• Query params tracking
• File requests
• Custom request body
  • Change type
  • Update formatting

Data exporting

• Import request
  • Paste cURL
  • .http file
  • .rest file
• Export request
  • cURL string
  • Save as .http file
  • Save as .rest file

Response presentation

• Custom repsonse type
• Trigger formatting

Quality of life features

• Global keyboard shortcuts
• Open workspaces
• Environment variable support
• Multiple windows
• Multiple tabs
• Home Screen based on history

The goal here is to get somewhere between HTTPie and Cartero