GenHTTP

Inspection

Live on this server

Shows what the server received and responded, to debug clients.

Inspection Documentation GenHTTP.Modules.Inspection Package on NuGet

Shows what the server received and what it answered, to find out why a client gets a certain response. Add ?inspect to an address below the layout, and instead of the response you get the request as GenHTTP read it - method, path, query and headers - together with the response it would have sent.

Add the inspector while developing only, as it reveals details of your server.

To run it, create a console app (dotnet new console), add GenHTTP (dotnet add package GenHTTP.Full), replace Program.cs with the code below and start it with dotnet run - it answers at http://localhost:8080/.

Program.cs20 lines 
using GenHTTP.Engine.Internal;

using GenHTTP.Modules.Functional;
using GenHTTP.Modules.Inspection;
using GenHTTP.Modules.Layouting;
using GenHTTP.Modules.Practices;

var orders = Inline.Create()
                   .Get((int limit) => Enumerable.Range(1, limit).Select(i => new Order(i)));

var app = Layout.Create()
                .Add("api/orders", orders) // GET /api/orders/?limit=5&inspect
                .AddInspector(); // only while developing, as it reveals details of your server

await Host.Create()
          .Handler(app)
          .Defaults()
          .RunAsync();

public record Order(int Id);

Try it

Send the requests to the sample running on this server - change the path, headers or body as you like, or copy them as curl commands.

  1. Call the API

    GET
    curl -i 'https://genhttp.org/demo/inspection/api/orders/?limit=5'

  2. Inspect the call

    GET
    curl -i 'https://genhttp.org/demo/inspection/api/orders/?limit=5&inspect'