Add MsgPack support

[cd21h]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. New feature MsgPack encoding support Msgpack: https://msgpack.org/

Describe the solution you'd like

MsgPack responses

Response should be presented in

• json-based format:

  {
  "propName" : { "value": "value", "type": "type" }  
  }

• binary with ability to save to file
• text representation: base64 or text with hex-encoded non-printable characters (\0x0dTextString)

See // see https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/master/spec.md#type-system for type references Also should be an option to save as test

Request

Request should be accepted in:

• json-based representation, same as for response
• binary format (load from file)
• text representation: base64 or text with hex-encoded non-printable characters (\0x0dTextString)

[nilskp]

Any progress on this?

[ivanh03]

it would be really useful

[katia-kozlova]

Any changes here?

[brihaspati]

One solution is to use the msgpack-lite to decode the response

Steps

1. Copy the minified msgpack-lite js into a postman global variable
2. inside the test function, use eval to get the msgpack
3. responseBody is in encoded format, so normally it doesn't help much. So use pm.response.stream to get the response in a Buffer type which is then used to feed into the decode function of msgpack.

4. Use the decoded response, or use postman console to see the same

   pm.test("decode message pack", function() {
   eval(postman.getGlobalVariable("msgpack-code"));
   
   var bufferData = pm.response.stream;
   var customCodec = msgpack.createCodec();
   var response = msgpack.decode(bufferData, { codec: customCodec });
   console.log(response); //response is now decoded. Use postman console to see it
   });

[iambudi]

Any update about this feature?

[andrei-dascalu]

I'm also wondering about any movement on this?

[enghitalo]

Ping

[hejjzaeN]

up

[JawadAhbab]

Pong?

[usrtax]

up

[NVD-R]

ping?

[igor-sadchenko]

Any updates here?

[yairvillarp]

any news here???

[jasonchanapi]

Any update about this feature?

A software supports MessagePack

There's a new software called Apidog that makes working with MessagePack a breeze. It's a visual API tool that handles all the encoding/decoding behind the scenes, turning MessagePack data into human and machine-readable JSON. I gave it a try and found Apidog super beginner-friendly for dealing with MessagePack APIs.

1. Open Apidog, select an existing API or create a new one. Go to the Body tab and choose "msgpack".

2. Enter data in JSON format. Apidog will auto-encode it to MsgPack when sending it to the server.

3. Get the response right away. Apidog decodes the MsgPack data into convenient JSON.

[radixdev]

Any way to open source this contribution from the community?

[roshkins]

Any way to get Postman or ApiDog to use messagepack in a websocket connection?