Open application/hal+json response inline in browser instead of downloading it

Asked 9/9, 2013 at 14:0 Answered 9/7, 2015 at 17:7

Solved google-chrome download inline hal-json

I would like to open "application/hal+json" response inline in my Chrome browser. The problem is that the Chrome browser doesn't recognize the HAL response and downloads it. Before I always used the JSON view extension for Chrome for checking my JSON response. But since swapping to HAL it immediately downloads my response so I cannot review it anymore.

Thymol answered 9/9, 2013 at 14:0 Comment(1)

You can participate on resolving the issue for JSONView: github.com/bhollis/jsonview/issues/7 – Zennie 5/2, 2014 at 16:51

For Chrome: I just ran into a nice solution myself. I hope answering here will help some other people who run into the same problem... Installing this 'application/...+json|+xml as inline' chrome extension solved it nicely. I am now able to review my server response again as normal.

For FireFox: Install the extension called JSONView. After install go to extensions page (default: ctrl+shift+a) find the JSONView extension and go to options. There you can add "Alternate JSON content types" that should be opened as by the extension. Simply add application/hal+json to the input field and it will work:

REST developer add-ons: Another solution can be to install a REST developer add-on. The advantage is that you can also change the http request verb (POST, GET, PATCH, PUT, DELETE) and custom set your request headers. A great REST plugin for Chrome is POSTMAN and a nice one for FireFox is RESTClient. But there are several other ones available.

Thymol answered 9/9, 2013 at 14:3 Comment(4)

Is there an equivalent for Firefox? – Shark 9/1, 2014 at 18:24

Also, I'm not so sure this even does anything. Chrome is downloading a file when I select the "preview" tab with application/hal+json, this plugin doesn't rectify that for me. – Physician 28/1, 2014 at 19:52

FOR FIREFOX @acohen it's probably too late, but for someone who looking for answer, here's solution: download extension JSONView, after install go to extensions page (default: ctrl+shift+a) find on list JSONView and go to options of this extension. And under rates and reviews there is option "Include "application/json" in the HTTP Accept header for request." enable it. After this I can open app/json in firefox ;) – Republican 28/8, 2015 at 1:17

@mij, thanks for your answer. I changed it a bit and added it. There is an "Alternate JSON content types" field as well in the options panel you mentioned. This seems better since it will not change any of your outgoing requests. – Thymol 28/8, 2015 at 7:25

This doesn't exactly answer your question, but installing the HAL Browser from your web server will convert HAL to HTML for viewing your application/hal+json responses inline. It's particularly nice because it makes the links navigable and also links to the relation documentation (if the relation name is a URI).

Oddly enough, my Chrome sends an Accept header of /;q=0.8 so it falls back to anything the server sends it. I wonder if you're running a different version of Chrome than I am. I'm on v30.0.1599.101.

Tailorbird answered 21/10, 2013 at 5:26 Comment(3)

Can you point to some useful link/resources which can guide for how to install HAL browser ? Thanks – Rabbet 30/4, 2014 at 5:27

The code is on GitHub here. The README explains how to install: drop the files into the root directory (or a subdirectory) of your web server. – Tailorbird 30/4, 2014 at 11:30

Thanks Jonathan, I did exactly the same way, copy pasted every files and directory to webapps.. but still no luck.. – Rabbet 30/4, 2014 at 13:43

Came here looking for a solution for Firefox and application/hal+json content type.

I ended up installing JSONView, which has an option in its preferences menu to add extra content types.

Gideon answered 9/7, 2015 at 17:7 Comment(0)

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