Some idea

[rawaludin]

I really like this plugin. Sometimes I use this instead of postman. But, sometimes I turn back to postman because I could easily access saved request. Therefore, I don't have to recreate my request detail.

Is it possible to make a list of saved request and automatically open those list when I open rest console? Therefore I could click my saved request and replay it.

[diepm]

Thanks for your idea. I've thought about it for a few days. It's not terribly hard but involves several small things to do that take time while my spare time is limited. The TODO list includes

• A file, ideally configurable, to keep the history (not too bad since VRC has a the whole command already).
• A way to call up, display, and hide the history.
• A "click/trigger" handler to make the request. Since VRC supports multiple named output buffers, this handler needs to determine which output buffer to use; probably a new buffer.

If you want to take the lead, I'll try to provide as much help as I can. Currently I'm planning for async VRC using the new feature of Vim 8.

[shawnaxsom]

Currently I just use a mapping that opens up a file from my personal notes directory. That will get me by.

But as an alternative or addition to having internal history, it could be good to allow VRC to work within other filetypes, though it might be too tricky. Rather than only using just .rest files or filetypes, it would be nice to be able to embed it in markdown or vimwiki files. Before finding VRC I was embedding cURL commands in vimwiki, allowing me to hyperlink as a wiki and add notes. Of course parsing would probably require a delimiter, maybe double equals could delimit the top of the VRC section of the file.

[diepm]

Is it somewhat like Jupyter with Python code embedded? It would be great though I'm not sure how useful it is to embed VRC in a document. Do you have some use cases?

[shawnaxsom]

@diepm If the logic would be too complicated it probably wouldn't be worth it. But yeah you could think of it like Jupyter in a way. My use case would be within personal notes or TODOs. If I am programming on a task, I have a Markdown file with task notes, and it could be nice to embed a query under one of the TODO items. Or I might do the same for long-term documentation about the system.

That would allow for saving commands executed within possibly any file format (you could even embed it into source code comments if you wanted). It might suite the needs of @rawaludin unless he is instead wanting just an MRU list saved from every execution of a query from any file.

[CaptainQuirk]

Hi guys ! Thanks for all the good work !

What about saving the .rest files ?

I've been using VRC for several years now, creating a .rest folder, mostly VCS ignored, containing saved .rest files with request details.

It has been working quite well