Send and receive json messages with nighthawk

[MichalzDev]

Hi, Is there a way to POST and GET requests with json as a body ?
Something like running nigthawk client with:
--request-method POST --request-header 'Content-Type: application/json' and --request-body '{foo: bar}'
I see in Readme there is only --request-body-size that is int.
Same thing for nighthawk server is there a way to get json or other message instead of multiple a's ?
Thanks :)

[mum4k]

Hi @MichalzDev as of now we don't have support for setting the request body, but I do agree that this would be an interesting feature to add.

We have a plan to work on this, but nothing concrete yet. I will update this issue if we get to implementing this feature.

[MichalzDev]

Hi @mum4k. Just to clarify, from server side setting option like response body is also not available ?

[mum4k]

@MichalzDev that is correct, both the client and the server currently just send the response_body_size times the a character. Here is the server portion.

With that said, adding a support for a custom response body is fairly trivial in both the client and the server. We do plan adding it into the client and a contribution to the server side would also be welcome if you are interested.