Milkman: An Extensible Alternative to Postman in JavaFX

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68 points·javinpaul··6 comments

Cool to see someone using JavaFX and not Electron. I quite like it and used it for a few card games and stuff.

Congratulations on picking up JavaFX for doing it.

Interesting and the nice thing about him wanting to add JavaScript runner support is the JRE does have a JS engine you can embed into your apps.

The JS runner in Postman felt a little limited I couldnt for example figure out how to fetch a document.cookie from a response. It would be awesome if the JS runner can match the usefulness of the one from Postman in addition to being extendable like the rest of Milkman seems to be.

One thing I wish there was and maybe this project might be extensible towards is a JMS / better ActiveMQ / JMS client.

Sadly Nashorn, the JS engine that was built into the JVM, has been deprecated as of Java 11: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/335

It had so many compatibility issues with real JS that it was kind of untenable to use it with scripts designed for other JS environments: https://jaxenter.com/nashorn-javascript-engine-deprecated-14...

The only real way to deal with JS now is Rhino (which still exists!), or some custom binding to V8 or something via JNI (yikes).

Our work uses Nashorn a lot for scripting and this is a big blocker for us to move to newer Java versions.

The real way is to adopt GraalVM, which is the alternative being proposed.

https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/js/

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Neat!

I personally switched to vscode rest client some time ago because the requests are just text on the filesystem so clearly visible in code review etc, but this looks really promising

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