Insomnia: [Feature Request] Merge JSON object variables from base & sub environment

Created on 27 Jun 2019 · 11Comments · Source: Kong/insomnia

Variable in base environment:

"app": {
  "clientId": "com.foo.someAppName"
}

Variable in sub environment XYZ:

"app": {
  "clientSecret": "abc123"
}

Effective variable in environment XYZ:

Expected:

"app": {
  "clientId": "com.foo.someAppName",
  "clientSecret": "abc123"
}

Actual:

"app": {
  "clientSecret": "abc123"
}

Insomnia v6.5.4

Source

9errie

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Could you have a look at this @gschier? It says "Feature Request", but one could perhaps also argue that the current behavior is a bug?
Anyway, I have a pull request that implements this new Feature, and I think the (Environment) Variable management in Insomnia would really benefit from it.

Gabrz on 20 Aug 2019

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welcome[bot] on 27 Jun 2019

If I could, I would like to upvote this Feature Request.

I think it would add some more "user friendlyness" to the management of global/environment variables in Insomnia. You already provide way to store the variables in a structured JSON form, not merging the object variables kinda defeats that purpose.

When the item is a string, I understand that you override the base value with the environment value. But when the item is an object/array you should try to merge the 2 objects

and

should lead to

Gabrz on 17 Jul 2019

Gabrz on 20 Aug 2019

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