Pororoca

Happy 2024 everyone! :-)

Breaking changes

• Shortcut for saving HTTP response body changed to F9 key.
• User data folder for Mac OSX moved to inside Application Support, no longer inside Applications folder.
• Test projects that use Pororoca.Test now require .NET 8 and enabled preview features in their .csproj files. Read more about it in the docs.
• osx releases work on Mac OSX computers with both x64 and ARM64 architectures (Apple Silicon).

Features

• Improved visual interface and themes, with better distinction between primary and secondary actions and better colour contrast.
• Drag-and-drop on tables has been greatly improved with highlighting borders and row selection.
• Autocomplete for HTTP headers names and values.
• HTTP log export. You can now export a file that details exactly what was sent in a request and what was received in a response, when it began and how much time elapsed. Hotkey is F10.
• Multipart responses when all parts are text can now be seen in response body.
• Multipart response parts can be retrieved in Pororoca.Test tests.
• A welcome page shows up for new users.
• A Go to docs item has been added inside Help menu.
• Added request body MIME types for DNS+JSON, FHIR, SOAP, AVIF, CBOR, JSON-PATCH, JXL and SQL.
• Compatibility with Postman environment secret variables, for import and export.
• Packaging available for Debian / Ubuntu in .deb files.
• Security audit in CI/CD (dotnet list package --vulnerable --include-transitive).
• SBOMs are now included with the releases. A SBOM (software bill of materials) is a document that describes which components are used to make a software, in order to keep track and audit for vulnerabilities and licenses compliances.
• Better resolution of app icons, especially for Mac OSX. (*3.0.1)
• Italian and russian translations for Windows installers. (*3.0.1)
• Windows installers now support using a different user account for elevation (fetched from Drizin/MultiUser). (*3.0.1)

Bug Fixes

• HTTP/3 requests can now run on Windows Server 2022 machines (fixed detection of QUIC support on Windows).
• Fixed bug when pressing Ctrl+PageUp or Ctrl+PageDown.

Refactors

• Collections and environments are now exported and imported using source generated JSON serializers, with better performance.
• Skips variable resolution if there are no effective variables, also for performance.
• Unified FormatHttpVersion() methods.
• Unified GetTestFilePath() methods in unit tests.
• Linux releases now are single-file published, meaning they have less files inside the folder.
• FrozenSet and FrozenDictionary used in many parts of the code, for faster speed.

CI/CD

• Removed unnecessary setup of NSIS, as it comes pre-installed on GitHub Actions Windows runners.
• Windows portable releases are now generated in Linux runners.
• Upgraded actions/upload-artifact to v4.

Others

• Pororoca.Test NuGet package now comes with a README.
• Fixed rununittests.ps1 report to ignore source generated files.
• Added unit tests for collections and environments JSON serialization and deserialization.
• Raised .NET SDK to 8.0.101. (*3.0.1)
• Raised AvaloniaEdit to 11.0.5.
• Raised Microsoft.OpenApi to 1.6.11.
• Added italian README. (*3.0.1)

Happy 2024 everyone! :-)

Breaking changes

• Shortcut for saving HTTP response body changed to F9 key.
• User data folder for Mac OSX moved to inside Application Support, no longer inside Applications folder.
• Test projects that use Pororoca.Test now require .NET 8 and enabled preview features in their .csproj files. Read more about it in the docs.
• osx releases work on Mac OSX computers with both x64 and ARM64 architectures (Apple Silicon).

Features

• Improved visual interface and themes, with better distinction between primary and secondary actions and better colour contrast.
• Drag-and-drop on tables has been greatly improved with highlighting borders and row selection.
• Autocomplete for HTTP headers names and values.
• HTTP log export. You can now export a file that details exactly what was sent in a request and what was received in a response, when it began and how much time elapsed. Hotkey is F10.
• Multipart responses when all parts are text can now be seen in response body.
• Multipart response parts can be retrieved in Pororoca.Test tests.
• A welcome page shows up for new users.
• A Go to docs item has been added inside Help menu.
• Added request body MIME types for DNS+JSON, FHIR, SOAP, AVIF, CBOR, JSON-PATCH, JXL and SQL.
• Compatibility with Postman environment secret variables, for import and export.
• Packaging available for Debian / Ubuntu in .deb files.
• Security audit in CI/CD (dotnet list package --vulnerable --include-transitive).
• SBOMs are now included with the releases. A SBOM (software bill of materials) is a document that describes which components are used to make a software, in order to keep track and audit for vulnerabilities and licenses compliances.

Bug Fixes

• HTTP/3 requests can now run on Windows Server 2022 machines (fixed detection of QUIC support on Windows).
• Fixed bug when pressing Ctrl+PageUp or Ctrl+PageDown.

Refactors

• Collections and environments are now exported and imported using source generated JSON serializers, with better performance.
• Skips variable resolution if there are no effective variables, also for performance.
• Unified FormatHttpVersion() methods.
• Unified GetTestFilePath() methods in unit tests.
• Linux releases now are single-file published, meaning they have less files inside the folder.
• FrozenSet and FrozenDictionary used in many parts of the code, for faster speed.

CI/CD

• Removed unnecessary setup of NSIS, as it comes pre-installed on GitHub Actions Windows runners.
• Windows portable releases are now generated in Linux runners.
• Upgraded actions/upload-artifact to v4.

Others

• Pororoca.Test NuGet package now comes with a README.
• Fixed rununittests.ps1 report to ignore source generated files.
• Added unit tests for collections and environments JSON serialization and deserialization.
• Raised .NET SDK to 8.0.100.
• Raised AvaloniaEdit to 11.0.5.
• Raised Microsoft.OpenApi to 1.6.11.

Important!

osx-x64 release works for Mac OSX arm64 / Apple Silicon.

Features

• Adds italian language by @alessiotm
• Show WebSocket connection response HTTP status code and headers by @tetropolix
• Import OpenAPI / Swagger files.
• Re-run response captures (no need to send a request again).
• Drag-and-drop in tables - click, hold and drag the "::" at the left of the row to move it on the table.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash of response capture when Content-Type was JSON, but the body wasn't JSON.
• Collection-scoped auth is now validated before requests.
• No more crash when copying text from help dialog (bug fixed in MessageBox).

Refactors

• Variable resolution now uses regex and cached variables, which should improve performance and lower memory consumption, especially if you have a lot of collection and environment variables.
• XML body response captures now caches XmlDocument and XmlNamespaceManager, saving memory.
• Replaced Moq for NSubstitute in unit tests.

Others

• Raised .NET SDK version to 7.0.403.
• Raised Avalonia version to 11.0.5.
• Raised MessageBox.Avalonia version to 3.1.5.1.
• Removed global.json.
• UI tests keybinding changed to Ctrl+F12 and menu item moved to inside Help.

New Contributors

• @alessiotm made his first contribution in PR #54
• @tetropolix made his first contribution in PR #55

Features

• Visual themes are now available: light, dark, pampa and amazonian night.
• Default font now is Cabin.
• Adds russian language by @RVShershnev.
• Red border and background on inputs when there is an error related to them.
• A dialog now appears to confirm if you really want to delete an item.
• Keyboard shortcuts added! They are:
  • F1 - Show help
  • F2 - Rename
  • F4 - Focus on URL
  • F5 - Send request / connect WebSocket
  • F6 - Cancel request / disconnect WebSocket
  • F7 - Set previous environment as active
  • F8 - Set next environment as active
  • Ctrl+S - Save response body to file
  • Alt+Up - Move item up in tree
  • Alt+Down - Move item down in tree
  • Ctrl+X - Cut items
  • Ctrl+C - Copy items
  • Ctrl+V - Paste items
  • Ctrl+D - Duplicate collection
  • Delete - Delete items

Bug Fixes

• Previously, response headers were not being updated if the response body tab was the one selected. Now, they are always updated.
• Removed duplicated application/problem+json MIME type.

Refactors

• Organized visual styles in separate files, allowing for easier theming.
• Icons are now vectorized.
• Internationalization texts are now provided by a source generator.
• Compiled bindings are now the default in all visual controls.
• JSON strings are now detected using Utf8JsonReader from System.Text.Json, in a faster way.
• Safer mechanism of saving user collections on app shutdown.
• Some Pororoca domain classes were refactored into records.
• Code for copying, pasting and adding items is simpler now.

Others

• Raised Avalonia version to 11.0.2.
• Raised .NET SDK version to 7.0.306.
• Created GitHub Actions pipeline for generation of Pororoca Desktop and Pororoca.Test releases.
• Drag and drop on tables was removed due to conflict with text inputs. This feature hopefully will be back soon.

New Contributors

• @RVShershnev made his first contributions in PRs #24 and #25.

Features

• Great improvement on UI/UX for headers, URL encoded and form data params, and websocket subprotocols. Their grids now support drag-and-drop and the item removal actions now have a button on each row.
• Adds MIME types application/dns-json, application/dns-message and application/problem+xml (issue #19).
• Protects against rare scenario that response body is text, but not in UTF-8 encoding.

Bug Fixes

• On Linux, requests with client certificate authentication will have independent SSL sessions of others to the same destination host.

Refactoring

• Now using [Reactive] from ReactiveUI.Fody attributes on ViewModel properties.
• Reformatted XML views.
• Reformatted C# code.

Others

• Raised .NET SDK to 7.0.203.