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Getting familiar with tools

Simple browser

A simple webbrowser may already be sufficient. Firefox displays JSON and XML in a very well readable format.

If the user, which sends the REST request, has not appropriate permissions for the requested resource, it gets redirected to login page - which is not always what you want. While developing REST features, you rather want to see the HTTP response codes (for instance 200 for OK, and many diferent numbers >=400 if a problem has occured) instead to get redirected to the login page.



cURL

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Swagger UI tools

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