Description
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
curlandhttpcodegen 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'snull).