[Feature Request] Prompt for input a variable

[paulo-dc]

Is it possible to add to possibility to have a "prompt variable" ?

It's just for convienience to be able to set a variable à the request execution. For example, we could have such request :

GET : {{base_url}}/myapi/v1/mystuff/users/{{$prompt userId}}/details

And so, instead of copy/paste an id directly in the url form before the request run, we would be able to simply execute the request without modifying it, and a pop up would appear letting us set the id to replace the {{$prompt userId}} field.

Such feature exists at the moment in Insomnia. It would be very cool to have this in bruno.

[MelGrubb]

I have a handful of investigative and "repair" queries that I sometimes need to run with the Id of a specific user, for example. Which user I run the query or mutation for will never be the same twice, but I don't want to end up hard-coding the Id directly in the query. For the moment, I just have to remember to replace the Id with something bogus before saving the query for next time, but it would be a far better experience if I were prompted for the values each time I run the query. Ideally, the pop-up would remember the last value used, at least for the current session, so that I don't have to keep pasting it in each time. If I were to close the tab, the value should be forgotten, though, so I don't accidentally use the same value the next time I have to do a similar investigation.

I'd be fine if there were simply a way to mark a property on the Variables tab as being transient, perhaps the "{{$" syntax suggested above. I could specify my value directly on the Variables tab, just as long as I know that when I save the query, that value will get dropped from the file or something. Whatever is easiest. I just don't want that Id to make it into the file permanently, that's all.

[LuccaRomanelli]

This is really usefull so I could change values in query and body and it does not get carry on to other user and to my git

[simongodard]

Likewise, I have a lot of API requests to investigate and the IDs are always different. If the env variable is not set, there could be an option to prompt for the value.

[koljatm-edeka]

I would suggest adding a script method for that like bru.prompt('varName', default, prompt) so you can initialize a var in a pre script. If that is something that's seen as useful I could imagine trying my hand on such a functionality

[KoljaTM]

Added a possible implementation of this feature. Open to suggestions.