[feature]: Function to send request from pre-request script

[greg-vstorm]

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Summary

Postman provides method sendRequest to make AJAX request from pre-request script. For example:

pm.sendRequest({
    url: 'http://example.localhost/sanctum/csrf-cookie',
    method: 'GET'
}, function (error, response, {cookies}) {
    if (!error) {
        pm.environment.set('xsrf-token', cookies.get('XSRF-TOKEN'))
    }
})

This feature is useful when you need to get for example xsrf-token,

Why should this be worked on?

Allow testing API's build with Laravel Scout to get xsrf-token. I think it's much more use cases than this one.

[AndrewBastin]

Thank you for reporting.

We will consider this during the planned revamp of the Scripting System.

[wakeupmh]

Send request is a missing great feature, please, can you priorize this? 🥺
@AndrewBastin

[AndrewBastin]

Yup, I am working on a solution for this, stay tuned!

[987Nabil]

@AndrewBastin Any news on this?

[lslavuj]

@AndrewBastin Any news?

[AndrewBastin]

Please discuss about this in the RFC discussion #2292 for the scripting API revamp.

We are working on a scripting API revamp to support for more complex use cases.

[lathindu1]

Any update guys. can we get CSRF token in Pre-request scripts now ? We really need it's to test Laravel

[laDanz]

Still waiting for this, would really improve my user experience...
I guess it should not be closed, even if it is mentioned on #2292 ?
All other mentioned features on #2292 are not closed...

[bforbis]

Would like to add my +1 support for this feature, as it is making it difficult for me to migrate from Postman.

My Use Case: A pre-request script that handles creation of OAuth 2.0 client_credentials grant access token before the request, then stores both the access token and expiration in environment variables.

I have been using this in postman before Postman even added OAuth 2 support, and it's a great way to get around the lack of Hoppscotch support for OAuth 2.0 client_credentials grant (see #874)

It would be really great if these pre-request scripts could then be stored at the collection level and shared.

[nandi95]

Why was this issue closed?