How do I manage collection variables?
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Hello,
How do I manage collection variables, like in Postman? When I import a Postman collection in Milkman, does it import the collection variables along?
similar to postman, you can have environments which you can modify/edit in the toolbar:
you can quickly edit the current environment with ctrl-e and also use quick-edit for variables
the postman importer supports importing environments but only, if you import a data-dump
I meant collection variables
ah, sorry, i didnt know this feature.
no, this is currently not supported nor imported. i currently cant think of a convincing reason to add this, what would this provide over environment-variables / global variables (which are both supported), except maybe keeping the environemnts a bit more clean.
I use collection variables because they have a collection context of usage and they are easier to export in files than environments.
I would appreciate the importation, management and usage of collection variables in Milkman!
I would like to contribute to this, if possible.
This project could also be part of Hacktoberfest.
i would love if you participate. after thinking about this, i am still hesitant to add native support for collection-variables mainly because i want to keep milkman "slick" in the sense that there should be only one way to do things and it shouldnt be overloaded (as i feel that postman suffers feature-creep).
but i do feel that it makes sense to support some kind of import for collection-variables, maybe into a global environment (being always active next to the currently chosen one). I feel this is also something that is easily add-able in the course of hacktoberfest, wdyt?
if you still feel, that native collection variable support would be beneficial, i am all open for PRs and will provide some pointers for you to get started / how to best tackle that problem
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