Filtering

Fluxzy offers several ways to quickly isolated exchanges of interest through filters.

Note: When applying a filter, you can hold the Ctrl key (Cmdon macOS) to combine the selected filter with the current filter (if any).

Built-in filters

From toolbar

Toolbars contains commonly used filters. These filters are: JSON (for json content), POST (for post method), 2XX (for successful exchanges), err (for failed exchanges with status code 4XX or 5XX or with a transport failure).

toolbar quick filtering

From contextual menus

  • Right-click on an exchange or a host or a path to access contextual menu. Fluxzy will pre-populate filters according to the context.
  • Hit Ctrl with space to combine the selected filter with the current filter (if any)

filter with context menu

From search everywhere tool

The search everywhere tool pre-populates filters according the current context. You can reach these filters by typing keywords on the bar.

  • Access the search everywhere tool by pressing Ctrl+T or Cmd+T on Mac or by the menu Edit > Search Everywhere

  • Type keywords to access filters. Examples :

    • analytics : will show filters related to host or path containing analytics
    • post : will show filters related to HTTP POST method

filter with search every where

From filter dialog box

Filter can be accessed through the menu Settings > Manage filters or by clicking on the filter item on status bar

Access filter management dialog

Built custom filters

You can create custom filters by clicking on the filter item on status bar or by the menu Settings > Manage filters. Custom filters can be a combination of any existing filters with logical operators.

This short sample creates a filter isolating exchanges having POST method and a json payload request

  • Open other filterdialog box, either by
    • Toolbar > more filters > other filter
    • Status bar > filter
    • Ctrl+T or Cmd+T to access the search everywhere tool, then choose Filter

create and select filter

  • Search and create a new filter collection, which is a combination of multiple filters with a logical operator.

edit filter collection

  • Set the logical operator to AND

Change logical operator for filter collection

  • Add new filter selecting POST only methods

  • Add new filter selecting Json request body

  • Save the filter

view of a simple filter collection

Now only exchanges having POST method and a json payload request will be displayed.

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