Map remote tool, add support for overriding method

[webuniverseio]

Description

In map remote tool you can override schema, ports, host, etc but there is no option to override method

Why this feature/change is important?

When you're working with graphql in dev you may be using POST method, but in prod, in order to use persistent queries you may be using GET method. When remapping dev to prod I currently can't use map remote tool in this case because I can't change method (so when request in browser is made as POST, it arrives as POST to mapped host).

Please consider adding support for this use case, thank you!

[NghiaTranUIT]

@webuniverseio

Can you simply use the Scripting to achieve the same thing?

It's really simply to translate your Map Remote to the JS code: Here is the sample:

function onRequest(context, url, request) {
    request.scheme = "https";
    request.host = "freshgrocery.com";
    request.port = 443;
    request.path = "graphql";
    return request;
}

All Snippet code: https://docs.proxyman.io/scripting/snippet-code#change-request-destination-scheme-host-port-path

[webuniverseio]

Hi @NghiaTranUIT , this is true I thought I could use scripting but I find it would be even simpler to have that option in map remote tooling since all other remapping are already present and that is the only one which I wish was there.

Thank you for the snippet!

[webuniverseio]

I gave scripting a try, it worked fairly well, but I had to do a bit extra to set query parameters. Lets say I have a query like this which I need to remap

operationName=abc&variables=%7B%22token%22%3A%225816f.252887b7439-043x17894-1-351-1885637-0%22%7D&extensions=%7B%22persistedQuery%22%3A%7B%22version%22%3A1%2C%22hash%22%3A%2269dee5de054b01ca8ec88048011d6ba3e31e59442ac78525e437745135ec927a%22%7D%7D

I had to first split that string by &, then reassign values to request.queries[key] = value and value had to be url decoded. I learned something about scripting which is helpful, but I wish there was a simpler way (scripting samples mention just request.queries[x]).

I also had to set a cookie header to avoid auth error for backend api, so looks like I could not avoid scripting in the first place. Thanks for your help with this, I'll close this ticket.