Variables based on previous requests

[rnusser]

I was wondering if this is possible, as I couldn't find a reference to it. I think it would be great if a certain request returning JSON could be used to make a subsequent request. For example I usually make a request to get the tokens, and then use those tokens in the next requests. I know we could use the existing scripting abilities which I think it a great feature, but it would be nice to use this tool to do that too.

[darrenburns]

Yeah, right now you'd need to use scripting for this. I have an idea that there could be a special variable that gives you access to data in the last request that ran though.

For example if a request returned a JSON body which contained a key of "foo", maybe you could do $_(body.foo) to access the value in "foo". If it returned a header "Some-Header", you might do $_(headers."Some-Header"). I need to think it through more - it might be a bad idea :)