Add per-worker variable injection for parallel job execution #4488
Description
Problem to solve
Say I am testing some jobs that require locking behavior: https://url/job/namespace
Where:
- each namespace is locked while the job is running
- subsequent requests will just wait to try and get a lock
When running multiple jobs, this means I can't actually run tests against multiple namespaces simultaneously(e.g. namespace-one, namespace-two, namespace-three, etc) without wrapping hurl in parallel or something similar.
Proposal
Ideally each file could have something like POST https://url/job/test_{{SUFFIX}}
and then I could specify --job-variables SUFFIX="red,green,blue" or something (indicates run a max of 3 jobs)?
Additional context and resources
Just injecting a the worker number as a variable could make this workable, but less ergonomic.
Originally posted in #3786.
Tasks to complete
- add additional cli parsing
- modify job creation to inject a different variable per job instead of cloning all variables
- testing
- documentation