Httpie: Set non-zero return code on error

[jakub-bochenski]

This would be very convenient way to fail fast scripts that run with -e

This would be like curl --fail only without swallowing the output.

It looks that now the return code is always 0.

$ http -v PUT invalid://httpbin.org/put API-Key:foo hello=world

http: error: InvalidSchema: No connection adapters were found for 'invalid://httpbin.org/put'
$ echo $#
0

$ http PUT httpbin.org/status/418 API-Key:foo hello=world
HTTP/1.1 418 I'M A TEAPOT
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Connection: close
Content-Length: 135
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:02:15 GMT
Server: gunicorn/19.7.1
X-Powered-By: Flask
X-Processed-Time: 0
x-more-info: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324


    -=[ teapot ]=-

       _...._
     .'  _ _ `.
    | ."` ^ `". _,
    \_;`"---"`|//
      |       ;/
      \_     _/
        `"""`


$ echo $#
0

[jakubroztocil]

@jakub-bochenski I think you wanted to print $?, which gives you 1 for the first example. For the second one, you can get an error status code on an error response with --check-status: https://httpie.org/doc#scripting

[jakub-bochenski]

Indeed -- sorry about that.

I tried greping the docs for "status code" and "return code" before but didn't find the --check-status option. Good to know it's there.