Added field-name:=raw-json

Closes #14

README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,14 @@ HTTPie is a CLI frontend for [python-requests](http://python-requests.org) built
 
 ### Installation
 
-    pip install httpie
+Latest stable version using [pip](http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/index.html):
+
+    pip install -U httpie
+    # easy_install httpie
+
+Master:
+
+    pip install -U https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tarball/master
 
 
 ### Usage
@@ -27,6 +34,14 @@ Will issue the following request:
 
     {"name": "John", "email": "john@example.org"}
 
+You can pass other types then just strings using the `field:=value` notation. It allows you to set arbitrary JSON to the data fields:
+
+    http PUT httpie.org/pies bool:=true list:=[1,2,3] 'object:={"a": "b", "c": "d"}'
+
+Produces the following JSON request:
+
+{"bool": true, "list": [1, 2, 3], "object": {"a": "b", "c": "d"}}
+
 You can use the `--form` flag to set `Content-Type` and serialize the data as `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`.
 
 The data to be sent can also be passed via `stdin`:
@@ -34,6 +49,7 @@ The data to be sent can also be passed via `stdin`:
     http PUT api.example.com/person/1 X-API-Token:123 < person.json
 
 Most of the flags mirror the arguments you would use with `requests.request`. See `http -h`:
+
 usage: http [-h] [--json | --form] [--traceback] [--ugly] [--headers | --body]
             [--request] [--style STYLE] [--auth AUTH] [--verify VERIFY]
             [--proxy PROXY] [--allow-redirects] [--file PATH]

httpie/httpie.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from . import __doc__ as doc
 DEFAULT_UA = 'HTTPie/%s' % version
 SEP_COMMON = ':'
 SEP_DATA = '='
+SEP_DATA_RAW = ':='
 TYPE_FORM = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8'
 TYPE_JSON = 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
 PRETTIFY_STDOUT_TTY_ONLY = object()
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ class KeyValueType(object):
                      if string.find(sep) != -1)
 
         if not found:
+            #noinspection PyExceptionInherit
             raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(
                 '"%s" is not a valid value' % string)
         sep = found[min(found.keys())]
@@ -109,8 +111,9 @@ parser.add_argument('url', metavar='URL',
                     help='Protocol defaults to http:// if the'
                          ' URL does not include it.')
 parser.add_argument('items', nargs='*',
-                    type=KeyValueType([SEP_COMMON, SEP_DATA]),
-                    help='HTTP header (key:value) or data field (key=value)')
+                    type=KeyValueType([SEP_COMMON, SEP_DATA, SEP_DATA_RAW]),
+                    help='HTTP header (key:value), data field (key=value)'
+                         ' or raw JSON field (field:=value).')
 
 
 def main(args=None,
@@ -127,14 +130,23 @@ def main(args=None,
     headers['User-Agent'] = DEFAULT_UA
     data = {}
     for item in args.items:
+        value = item.value
         if item.sep == SEP_COMMON:
             target = headers
         else:
             if not stdin_isatty:
                 parser.error('Request body (stdin) and request '
                             'data (key=value) cannot be mixed.')
+            if item.sep == SEP_DATA_RAW:
+                try:
+                    value = json.loads(item.value)
+                except ValueError:
+                    if args.traceback:
+                        raise
+                    parser.error('%s:=%s is not valid JSON'
+                                 % (item.key, item.value))
             target = data
-        target[item.key] = item.value
+        target[item.key] = value
 
     if not stdin_isatty:
         data = stdin.read()
@@ -171,7 +183,7 @@ def main(args=None,
         sys.stderr.write(str(e.message) + '\n')
         sys.exit(1)
 
-    # Display the response.
+    # Reconstruct the raw response.
     encoding = response.encoding or 'ISO-8859-1'
     original = response.raw._original_response
     status_line, headers, body = (
@@ -186,11 +198,12 @@ def main(args=None,
     if do_prettify:
         prettify = pretty.PrettyHttp(args.style)
         if args.print_headers:
-            status_line = prettify.headers(status_line).strip()
+            status_line = prettify.headers(status_line)
             headers = prettify.headers(headers)
-        if args.print_body and 'content-type' in response.headers:
-            body = prettify.body(body, response.headers['content-type'])
+        if args.print_body and 'Content-Type' in response.headers:
+            body = prettify.body(body, response.headers['Content-Type'])
 
+    # Output.
     if args.print_headers:
         stdout.write(status_line)
         stdout.write('\n')

setup.py

@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ import httpie
 
 requirements = ['requests>=0.10.4', 'Pygments>=1.4']
 
-if sys.version_info < (2 , 7):
+if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
     requirements.append('argparse>=1.2.1')
 
 
 setup(name='httpie',version=httpie.__version__,
     description=httpie.__doc__.strip(),
-    url='https://github.com/jkbr/httpie',
+    url='http://httpie.org/',
     author=httpie.__author__,
     license=httpie.__licence__,
     packages=['httpie'],