Connekt Unleashed: A New Open Source HTTP Client for Enhanced IntelliJ IDEA Experience

Yesterday, on July 22, which marks Kotlin’s birthday, a live session took place featuring Roman Elizarov, Ilya Kuchmin, and Alexander Shustanov. Within 1.5 hours, the experts covered:

A discussion on why standard tools in IDEs and console applications often fall short for complex scenarios.

A demonstration of how Connekt simplifies the process of calling HTTP services, building request chains, extracting data from responses, and writing assertions.

An exploration of how to utilize the client in IDEs, Continuous Integration (CI) environments, and the console.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BBN3cjsmr8c

Watch on VK Video: https://vkvideo.ru/video-222549074_456239194

Timecodes

00:00:00 – Highlights

00:00:41 – Introduction. What will we discuss today?

00:05:10 – Demo. Key features of Connekt and its powerful integration with Spring Boot.

00:44:43 – Demo. Connekt and secure endpoint handling (authorization, authentication, Spring Security)

00:59:51 – Demo. Working with external APIs using Connekt. Forming call chains.

01:17:55 – Conclusion. What else can Connekt do?

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