[Question] How to assign multiple files to a variable

[karrybit]

Is it possible to assign multiple files to a variable by specifying a file path that contains *? I want to combine files other than JSON and YAML, but I couldn't find a way to do that in the documentation, so I'd like to know how.

[k1LoW]

Hi @karrybit .

Currently, loading files other than JSON ( json:// ) and YAML ( yaml:// ) is not supported.

vars:
  requests: json://path/to/*.json

Only HTTP Runner can POST any files (application/octet-stream or multipart/form-data) , but * is not supported.

What kind of use case do you want to read the files in?

[karrybit]

@k1LoW
Hi, Thanks for responding.

Our use case related to this issue involves testing a CLI application that persists CSV data stored in GCS. Using runn, we upload test data from a directory created for testing to the GCS Emulator, then launch the CLI application to verify that the results produce validation errors. Since the test data consists of CSV files, we cannot use the json:// or yaml:// directives for loading. Instead, we need to enumerate all the files in the directory.
To be able to run tests by adding test data, I want to be able to retrieve files from the specified directory.

[k1LoW]

Using runn, we upload test data from a directory created for testing to the GCS Emulator

To be able to run tests by adding test data, I want to be able to retrieve files from the specified directory.

Do you want to load a list of file paths, not file contents, under a directory?

If possible please show me how to upload files to GCS emurator without runn.

[k1LoW]

Support for file:// to read an arbitrary file as a string has been added in v0.130.1 ( * also supported ) 👍

[karrybit]

@k1LoW
Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for your help!