Feature Request - One-click chained/complext multiple request workflows
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Description
I love this product. I'm familiar with the ability to chain requests, ie pull data from the response of one request and inject it into another request. What I'd like to do is one step further: have a way to run several chained requests with the click of a button in some kind of workflow.
For example, suppose I have three requests that I commonly do back-to-back-to-back:
1. create user
1. create loan information for that user
1. upload a file for that user
I would like to click on one button (or run one request) called "Create User and Loans and Upload File" which would then run those three individual chained requests. Kind of like a script.
A simple approach would let me define a Workflow that runs arbitrary requests in a certain order. It'd be _really_ useful to configure template tags or environment variables per workflow, so I could define a "Create Borrower" workflow and a "Create Borrower With Bad Params" workflow that injects, say, an invalid phone number into the payload of one of the requests.
It's not necessary to have branching logic in such workflows, but that could be nice. For example, if Request 1 returns a 422 then run Request 3 instead of Request 2. Although in that case I would probably just define a new workflow that goes straight from Request 1 to Request 3. I don't think Insomnia needs to be Turing Complete :).
What do you think?
Desmond
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Research direction
Review the existing request-chaining behavior and how individual requests are selected and run; the payload names no files or tests. Define the workflow's ordered requests, variable or template handling, and completion behavior, then validate a one-click three-request sequence.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- api, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100