Cypress env vars not persisting values outside 'then' block

[rsde21]

Current behavior

I have my cypress.env.json file at the root directory. And the initial value of this env var is blank. let's say the name of the env var is TOKEN

  cy.log('pre');
  cy.log(Cypress.env('TOKEN'));            // "" logged

  cy.request({
    method: 'GET',
    url: `/xsrf-token`,
  })
    .its('body')
    .then((data) => {
      Cypress.env('TOKEN', data.token);
      cy.log('mid');
      cy.log(Cypress.env('TOKEN'));     // the correct token value is logged
    });
  cy.log('post');
  cy.log(Cypress.env('TOKEN'));   // "" logged

Desired behavior

I was expecting the cypress env value to persist even outside of the "then" block.

Test code to reproduce

1. Run any cy.request function
2. In the then block, set the value of an env var
3. log the env var after the cy.request

Cypress Version

13.2.0

Node version

18

Operating System

MacOS

Debug Logs

No response

Other

No response

[Crustum7]

Hello! I would recommend using before if you want to set the environment variable before running your tests in your spec file like so

before(() => {
   cy.request({
	   method: 'GET',
	   url: `/xsrf-token`,
	 })
   .its('body')
   .then((data) => {
     Cypress.env('TOKEN', data.token);
     cy.log('mid');
     cy.log(Cypress.env('TOKEN'));     // the correct token value is logged
   });
 })

 it('test', function () {
   cy.log(Cypress.env('TOKEN'))
 })

Do you have a special use case where this does not work? Please let me know

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