Diff tool visualizes differences between any two data in a familiar format. It easily integrates with other tools in Proxygen app to, for example, quickly compare any two requests or responses.

How to diff data

To bring data into Diff tool, select a message in some other tool and use a context menu action to copy it for diffing. If you select exactly two messages in History tool, you can directly to diff their requests or responses with keyboard shortcut command-d (requests) or shift-command-d (responses).

If you have copied binary data to clipboard, you can paste this data to Diff tool using the Paste Left and Paste Right toolbar options. Reset state of the tool with the Reset toolbar button.

Diffing modes

Diff tool has two modes:

  • Text mode where both left and right side data are text.
  • Binary mode mode where one or both data are non-textual.

You can choose to sync scrolling between left and right side to assist in seeing differences between their contents.

In text mode the diffing automatically cleans up diffs using one of the available methods. Choose the cleanup option that best suits your use case or disable diff cleanup entirely in the accessory bar.