Vscode-restclient: Set variable value from response

[hidaytrahman]

Example:
@accessToken variable is something that always requires adding a new token whenever hit the login or auth API.

[Huachao]

@hidaytrahman I didn't quite understand it, could you please explain it for me with more details?

[ndinev]

@hidaytrahman check this link to learn how to use request variables

[hidaytrahman]

Let me brief.

Suppose I have a variable name accessToken, and I am putting this variable in every request which require authorization.
e.g. user/profile require token in header as a 'Bearer {{accessToken}}'

Currently, we assign value in accesToken manually, But I want to assign it dynamically from user/login API response which returns token, I want to assign the same token in accessToken variable.
So whenever I will hit user/login API it will always set the token to accessToken variable.

This will save time for entering tokens every time manually.
and it can be used in various scenarios.

[amarth1982]

We need a hook before sending a http request, we should be able to get new token assign it to accessToken variable. Right now its a manual process. Take the case of switching env, I have to set the value of accessToken again manually. I know I can set a constant accessToken for each env, but odic tokens have sliding expiration. Postman allows scripts or hooks the gets executed before making http calls. And these script/hooks also works off the env variables

[dremekie]

@hidaytrahman You can do that using request variables.