Vscode-restclient: [Feature] Import/require .(http|rest) file

[mtxr]

• VSCode Version: 1.21.1
• OS Version: Ubuntu 18.04
• REST Client Version: 0.18.1
  It would be nice to be able to import/require file. Eg.

#### login.http
# @name login
@url = https://myawesomesite.com

POST {{url}}/api/auth HTTP/1.1

{
"username":"user",
"pass": "pass"
}

Then you could import/require files like:

import './login.http'

GET {{url}}/api/list HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer {{login.response.body.$.data.id}}

[Huachao]

@mtxr nice suggestion, I will consider it carefully.

[mtxr]

Any update on this?

[Huachao]

I am so sorry that I'm busy in my work, and I also put the feature that file variable can reference other variable in first priority

[djansyle]

Hi, any update on this? Really looking forward for this feature

[ribizli]

Hi, this feature would be really helpful to write DRY request files.

Currently I'm repeating the auth.http content in every .http file...

[wallberg13]

This features would be really cool.

[dv29]

I'm interested in this, if you have any ideas on how you want to do it. i can help you build it out.

[PhilzAce1]

Any Update on this ??? , I am really looking forward to it

[mchelen-gov]

@dv29 want to try some implementation and get feedback?

[rdumont]

I'm also very interested in this, and thinking about giving it a shot. But first, we need to agree on a few things.

The statement syntax

I would prefer to follow the pattern of prefixing keywords with @ inside a comment, like it is done with @name. So what do you think about the following?

# @import './login.http'

GET {{url}}/api/list HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer {{login.response.body.$.data.id}}

The keyword name

I see that we have a few options: include, import, require.

My personal preference is for include, since this is basically going to be treated like a preprocessor include, as if we had copied and pasted the code into the new file. Any objections?

The tasks

• [ ] Introduce include/import/require resolution to the send request command
• [ ] Update http language definition to support the new include/import/require statement
• [ ] Document usage in the readme
• [ ] (optional) offer auto-complete for included file paths

Corner cases

• Nested includes: can we agree that file paths will always be relative to each file that called the @include statement?

Anything else?

[jdriesen]

@rdumont : Happy to see you're planning to work on this.
Pls keep us informed.

[mediangraph]

@rdumont we're also very much interested in this feature, please let us know of the progress! :)

[KarFan-FS]

+1