Importing .http files (REST Client)

The .http and .rest files of the REST Client extension for VS Code are a very widespread format in repositories. Restorm imports them directly.

Importing

File ▸ Import (Ctrl+I) then the .http or .rest file. Pasted content is recognised too.

What is imported

Element	What Restorm makes of it
Blocks separated by ###	One request each
The request line METHOD URL [HTTP/x.x]	The method and the URL
Headers up to the first blank line	The headers
The body after the blank line	The body, as plain text
The @name = value preamble	The folder’s environment variables
# @name <identifier>	The request’s name
{{variable}}	Kept as it is — the syntax is the same as Restorm’s

Good news on that last point: REST Client’s variable syntax is Handlebars’, so your files arrive with their variables already working.

Limitations

The # @prompt and # @note directives are not evaluated. curl blocks nested inside a .http file are not parsed (import them separately via the cURL import). The body is always imported as plain text: a multipart/form-data or an x-www-form-urlencoded body is not broken out into fields.