Milkman is heavily inspired by Postman. But I got sick of all those electron-based applications that need ages and loads of memory to start up. Therefore i created a JavaFx-based workbench for crafting requests / responses. It is not limited to e.g. http (or more specificaly rest) requests. Due to nearly everything being a plugin, other things are possible, like database-requests or GRPC, GraphQl, etc...
- Download latest version in Release Section. Version 2.2.2 is latest version running on Java8. Version 3.0.0 and ongoing is first version with packaged JRE and running on Java11.
- Download plugin archive as well, if you want to use any of those plugins
For downloading the nightly build:
- Login to circleci.com (e.g. via github-authentication)
- Go to Milkman Builds
- Choose latest build and Download the build from the artifacts tab
latest changes can be seen in the Changelog
- Everything is a plugin: Request-types (e.g. Http Request), request-aspects (e.g. Headers, Body, etc), editors for request aspects (e.g. table-based editors for headers), importers, whatever it is, you can extend it. The core application only handles Workspaces with Environments, Collections, Requests and their aspects.
- Http Request Plugin: Several plugins are provided already that extend the core application to be a replacement for postman. Crafting and Executing Http/Rest requests with json highlighting. Proxy-server support.
- JavaFX Application: as in: fast (compared to electron at least :D) and skinn-able (you can extend milkman with your own themes using simple CSS).
The Http request plugin packaged with the release contains all means to do http request as well as import collections, environments or dumps from postman.
To migrate from postman, just export a dump-file from postman and import it by pasting its content into the Postman (v2.1) Dump-Importer.
The Http Request Plugin also comes with Proxy-support. Some proxies require credentials and support for supplying BASIC proxy credentials is built into the plugin. See Options-page to activate that as it is off by default.
This is a sample plugin that allows to add arbitrary description to every request. Serves as a starting point for learning to extend milkman.
This plugin extends Rest-responses by adding an Explore-Tab where you can use JMesPath queries against a JSON response.
Extends requests by executing a script after request execution. This allows to e.g. set environment variables based on results of json.
This plugin introduces SQL capability to milkman. You can query SQL databases via milkman as well, using JDBC drivers.
This plugin allows to synchronize workspaces via Git (using Differential Synchronization). Teams can use this plugin to have a shared workspace that synchronizes between members.
Adds capability to share requests via PrivateBin, including Burn After Reading feature
No client fits all, so you are encouraged to write your own plugins to e.g. add headers that are necessary for your internal service structures or add importers for internal service registries.
A sample plugin was provided that extends all requests with a Note tab so you can add some description to any kind of requests.
More details about developing plugins can be found in the plugin development guide.
Installation: all plugins are to be copied to the /plugins folder
This is only the beginning. Following features are already planned:
- javascript runner for pre request actions / testing of responses
- more exports
- different request types (e.g. GraphQl Client, Grpc, protobuf etc)
latest changes can be seen in the (Changelog)[changelog.md]