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.