Is there a way to transform a Hurl file into its "already replaced variables" version ?

[AdmiralRazorbeard]

I've been building a hurl TUI to have a minimal Insomnia like experience for quite some time now and as I want to implement an history feature, I would like to be able to transform this

POST {{base_url}}/my-url
authorization: {{bearer_token}}
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "id": "{{my_id}}",
  "something": "{{something}}"
  }
}
HTTP 201

hurl my-request.hurl --variables-file ./my-env-file.env

Into my-request_my-env-file-10-10-2026.hurl which contains

POST my-base-url/my-url
authorization: someToken
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "id": "someId",
  "something": "blablabla"
  }
}
HTTP 201

Is there a command like hurl my-request.hurl --variables-file ./my-env-file.env --export-generated-hurl ?
Even better if we could exclude variables from the exported hurl file, for example {{bearer_token}}, so that we can easily execute it later for example hurl my-request.hurl --variables-file ./my-env-file.env --export-generated-hurl --export-exclude bearer_token :

POST my-base-url/my-url
authorization: {{bearer_token}}
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "id": "someId",
  "something": "blablabla"
  }
}
HTTP 201

[jcamiel]

Hi @AdmiralRazorbeard

You can have something you want with a combination of hurl and hurlfmt.

First, given this file:

GET http://localhost:8000/captures
X-Foo: foo
HTTP 200
[Captures]
param1: header "header1"
param2: header "header2" regex "Hello (.*)!"
param3: header "header2" regex /Hello (.*)!/
# With the next captures, we test that the captured variable
# can be immediately used in the next captures + asserts
data1: body
data2: variable "data1"
[Asserts]
header "header1" == "{{param1}}"
variable "param1" == "value1"
variable "param2" == "Bob"
variable "param3" == "Bob"
variable "data2" == "Hello world!"


GET http://localhost:8000/captures-check?q={{param1}}
[QueryStringParams]
param1: {{param1}}
param2: {{param2}}
HTTP 200


GET http://localhost:8000/captures-check
[Query]
param1: {{param1}}
param2: {{param2}}
HTTP 200

You can run it and with --curl option, you'll have an export of this run with curl commands where variables are resolved:

$ hurl --curl out.txt test.hurl

In out.txt, you will have:

curl --header 'X-Foo: foo' 'http://localhost:8000/captures'
curl 'http://localhost:8000/captures-check?q=value1&param1=value1&param2=Bob'
curl 'http://localhost:8000/captures-check?param1=value1&param2=Bob'

Then with hurlfmt you can convert this curl file to a Hurl file:

$ hurlfmt --in curl > out.hurl

In out.hurl:

GET http://localhost:8000/captures
X-Foo: foo

GET http://localhost:8000/captures-check?q=value1&param1=value1&param2=Bob

GET http://localhost:8000/captures-check?param1=value1&param2=Bob

You can notice that you will lose asserts but this modop is maybe what's approaching the most your usecase.

You can also explore --json that output a run in a structured way, and --report-json that output with JSON reponse as files.

[AdmiralRazorbeard]

Thanks I'm going to try that !