Template literal into options like --user

[fml09]

Hello. I would like to insert template strings into options like Basic as described below. It seems that the current latest version of hurl does not support this feature. Is there a chance that this functionality might be added in the future?

GET https://{{URL}}/
HTTP 200

[BasicAuth]
{{key}}: {{secret}}

[jcamiel]

Hi @fml09 ,

Template for basic auth is supported. The syntax is:

POST http://foo.com/login
[BasicAuth]
{{user}}: {{password}}
HTTP 200

The [BasicAuth] is part of the request specification and must be before HTTP 200 which is the marker of response section.

[fml09]

Thank you @jcamiel , it works well! By the way, I have one more question. Is there a way to insert USERNAME:PASSWORD as a template into the User option? How should I handle cases like testing with AWS?

POST https://sts.amazonaws.com/
x-amz-security-token: {{TOKEN}}


[Options]
aws-sigv4: {{TEST}}
user: {{USER}}:{{PASSWORD}}

[FormParams]
Action: GetCallerIdentity
Version: 2011-06-15

Result:

error: Parsing option
  --> test.hurl:7:1
   |
 7 | user: {{USER}}:{{PASSWORD}}
   | ^ the option name is not valid. Valid values are aws-sigv4, cacert, cert, compressed, connect-to, delay, insecure, http1.0, http1.1, http2, http3, ipv4, ipv6, key, location, max-redirs, output, path-as-is, proxy, resolve, retry, retry-interval, skip, unix-socket, variable, verbose, very-verbose

[jcamiel]

Yes, --user is not yet implemented in options sections. For your use case, you can combine with a [BasicAuth] section, it should work. Tell me otherwise!

[fml09]

POST https://sts.amazonaws.com/
x-amz-security-token: {{TOKEN}}

[BasicAuth]
{{user}}: {{password}}

[Options]
aws-sigv4: {{TEST}}

[FormParams]
Action: GetCallerIdentity
Version: 2011-06-15

I tested it and it doesn't seem to work

[jcamiel]

Thanks I'll look into it and see if we log a bug to fix it. Meanwhile, you can use --user on command line as a workaround.

[jcamiel]

Hi @fml09

With #2585, you can now use --user in [Options] section and you should be able to use template:

POST https://sts.amazonaws.com/
x-amz-security-token: {{TOKEN}}
[Options]
aws-sigv4: {{TEST}}
user: {{user}}:{{password}}
[FormParams]
Action: GetCallerIdentity
Version: 2011-06-15
HTTP 200

[jcamiel]

This will be available in the next Hurl release (4.3.0)

[fml09]

Thank you! It works well :)