Dependencies and "global" or multi-file variable.

[DenuxPlays]

Hey,
I am currently running into an issue that a few tests (but not all!) needs some extra preparation (in my case creating 2 accounts and saving their id).
I have to copy the requests captures assertions etc. to each file where its needed.
Something like this would be great:
Test that needs preparation:

DEPENDS create-account.hurl
[Captures]
acc1_id: filevar acc1_id
acc2_id: filevar acc2_id

create-account.hurl

POST https://api.test/account
[Captures]
acc1_id: jsonpath "$['id']"


POST https://api.test/account
[Captures]
acc2_id: jsonpath "$['id']"

export acc1_id
export acc2_id

Maybe something like this could be made possible.
The example was just out of nowhere so maybe someone has a better idea on how this could work but something like this is really missing in hurl.
(But not as important as doing basic math, IDE/text editors plugins etc.)
Maybe someone else can share their thoughts about this here.

[jcamiel]

Hi @DenuxPlays

This issue is really about how to import Hurl fragment into another Hurl files. There are multiple issues and we know it's a feature important for some users:

Other related issue are #115 #1273 #317 #2110.

For the moment, mainly due to implementation complexity, we aren't going to develop "import" files soon. We need to take time to find a good syntax and also to deal with how to report error from a "stack" of included files for instance.

Hope it's not too harsh from us!

[DenuxPlays]

Hey @jcamiel,

I just wanted to push that feature a little bit closer to the implementation.
I really want/need this.
Its understandable that the core team wants to adress this but you already said that you are not currently working on it.
I am not acutally coding this (unless you want me to).
Its just a concept I wanted to discuss.

I know that parallel tests are default in v5 and this is acutally a bad thing for me.
This will break all of my tests. (Not unfixablee but still)
If this feature would be implemented in v5 I could setup my tests like I initially wanted to without copy-pasting 50 lines of code into every hurl file.

I agree that import/export and you include are 2 different features.
The include would be very basic and I guess does not allow to pass variables to it and from it (like the feature I need and others probably want).

The include feature would be very very basic and I guess that this is not really what a lot of people miss in hurl.
And I am not really sure what a Include http method is as I've never heard of it and could not find any documentation about it.

A quick question at the end:
Are you interested to add a feature ike I described (the include feature on streoids)?
Because if not then I think this discussion can be closed and if I think you/we should set some requirements for this feature and open a tracking issue for it.

[DenuxPlays]

One thing I forgot:

You said you are not sure how to handle the import feature when running tests in parallel.

My Idea was that we "merge" the imported files into the "parent" file.
So if two "parent" files import the same "child" the "child" there will be 2 "childs" at the same time.
One for each mother file.
Like an instance of the file so that they will be no race onditions etc.

I thnik this would be a pretty good approach.

[jcamiel]

I know that parallel tests are default in v5 and this is acutally a bad thing for me.
This will break all of my tests. (Not unfixablee but still)

You can run your tests in a sequential way like this:

$ hurl --test --jobs 1 *.hurl

This will run your tests in the order they are provided and should work like you're running without parallel option.

[jcamiel]

A quick question at the end:
Are you interested to add a feature ike I described (the include feature on streoids)?

For the moment no, we're focusing development on other features (please don't forget Hurl is a hobby project!!)

[DenuxPlays]

Okay
Thats sad :/

Yeah thtas the case with a lot of open-source projects.
Again if I would develop and maintain this feature if wanted. (Maybe not for now but later)

[jcamiel]

Just a last answer :) :

And I am not really sure what a Include http method is as I've never heard of it and could not find any documentation about it.

Like curl, Hurl allows to use any string as a method curl --method FOO https://bar.com even if it's not a standard HTTP method (see #967 )