Httpie: Colorized output doesn't follow terminal ANSI color styles.

[winneon]

HTTPie prefers solarized for its color palette, and it seems it doesn't properly follow whatever terminal style / colors that the end-user has set.

For example: I have specific ANSI colors set in my terminals, whether it be Terminal.app or HyperTerm on macOS, and yet, HTTPie still prefers solarized.

Terminal.app:

HyperTerm:

[jakubroztocil]

@winneon There currently is no support for this. HTTPie uses color schemes from Pygments, with the exception of our solarized implementation.

There's the --style option by which can choose a theme:

  --style STYLE, -s STYLE
      Output coloring style (default is "solarized"). One of:

          algol, algol_nu, autumn, borland, bw, colorful, default,
          emacs, friendly, fruity, igor, lovelace, manni, monokai,
          murphy, native, paraiso-dark, paraiso-light, pastie,
          perldoc, rrt, solarized, tango, trac, vim, vs, xcode

      For this option to work properly, please make sure that the $TERM
      environment variable is set to "xterm-256color" or similar
      (e.g., via `export TERM=xterm-256color' in your ~/.bashrc).

What I believe could be done though is to create a custom theme whose colors would be dynamically assigned from the terminal ANSI color scheme.

[winneon]

That would be great! I'm not able to make a pull request at the moment because my PC's motherboard is out for replacement, but if there isn't a change implemented when I get it back, then I will take a look into that.

[dsego]

When I just change the formatter to self.formatter = TerminalFormatter() here, without any styles I get the correct colors from my iTerm profile (material design in my case, see the screenshot). Weird enough, using Terminal256Formatter with default styles results in ugly colors. I propose to set to TerminalFormatter by default and enable the other one only when the style flag is set.

~If this works for you I can open a PR: https://github.com/dsego/httpie/commit/9d3715d57be22e7121dd8088512c0250c57b1917~

iTerm2 Dracula

iTerm2 Monokai

[ivancuric]

@dsego any updates on the pr?

[dsego]

@ivancuric I deleted my fork, there was no interest.

[jakubroztocil]

@dsego do you still have the code around? Completely missed your comment in the ocean of GitHub notifications.

[dsego]

@jkbrzt Sorry, scrubbed it. I think it was using TerminalFormatter instead of Terminal256Formatter when no style option is chosen.

[dsego]

@jkbrzt @ivancuric
Here is my second attempt. Not sure if this is the way to go. It works for me, but I don't know what it will do on different setups.

https://github.com/dsego/httpie/commit/b0fde07cfd8676a75292188dd8bedab7de74e6f2

[9mm]

So maybe I'm just crazy but it seems like this doesn't work when I choose the native theme? The colors that are outputted don't match anything in my terminal colors... I used to do the preset style before it was merged and it worked great, now it looks bad again, but native theme doesnt seem to fix it.