Chaining the capture from the output of running a Hurl file as input for another Hurl file

[OctavianHome]

I want to use "json paths" from a Hurl script file (file-001.hurl) as input for a subsequent Hurl script file (file-002.hurl).
I know that I could use both Hurl script files (file-001.hurl and file-002.hurl) in the same Hurl file but this is not an option for me.
One potential solution (which is not quite convenient for me) would be to save the output of file-001.hurl to a file-output-001.json file, update that file to file-output-001.env file and then pass it as --variables-file to the file-002.hurl.
This is not convenient for me because:

• I have to process the file-output-001.json to file-output-001.env accepted by Hurl
• I have to pass the entire file-output-001.json content, regardless of what input (json path) I need

The ideal solution for me would be like bellow.
The file-001.hurl content:

GET https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1
HTTP 200
[Captures]
userId: jsonpath "$['userId']"
id: jsonpath "$['id']"

Then export userid and id using some cli flag (--export-variables) to an output-001.env file with this content:

userid=4
id=5

If file-002.hurl has this content:

GET https://users/{{userid}}/orders/{{id}}
HTTP 200

then I could pass output-001.env as input file for file-002.hurl like this:

hurl  --variables-file output-001.env file-002.hurl

Do you have any idea if something like this (or similar) can be done?

[jcamiel]

Hi @OctavianHome

What can be done with Hurl current version is using --json : this way we have a structured output of the response and we can extract "easily" captured value.

With this file:

GET https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1
HTTP 200
[Captures]
userId: jsonpath "$['userId']"
id: jsonpath "$['id']"

We can run it with --json:

$ hurl --json file1.hurl --output file1.json
$ # Get the userId value and the Id
$ USER_ID=$(cat file1.json | jq '.entries[0].captures[0].value')
$ ID=$(cat file1.json | jq '.entries[0].captures[1].value')
$ hurl --variable "userId=${USER_ID}" --variable "id=${ID}" file2.hurl

[OctavianHome]

Hi @jcamiel ,
I will try to see how is working like this.
Thanks for your suggestion.

[TimReddingPBX]

Hey, thought I'd share my approach as it works well with significantly less effort.

I've found that concatenating the hurl files together using cat and piping them into the hurl cli works really well.

cat file1.hurl file2.hurl |  hurl