Nested Environments?

[drventure]

Just learned about Bruno and really liking it so far.

I'm coming from Insomnia and one of their fairly nice features is nested environments, where you can have a base environment and 1 or more additional environments nested beneath it that include (or override) variable values in the base environment.

I couldn't find any mention of that in the docs, so if it's not there now, I'd like to suggest it as a possibility.

Thanks!

[danielraab]

Would like this feature too. It is very helpful if you have a lot of environments.

[helloanoop]

I have used the nested environments of insomnia in the past and like its benefits of have a base env and other env's extending the base env.

The reason why I went ahead with a simple key-val (like postman) was just because of its simplicity.

Is there a plan to support nested environments ?

Yes, In V2 - see roadmap

I imagine allowing a configuration in bruno.json that allows people to choose the environment type.
something like

{
  "version": "1",
  "name": "bruno-testbench",
  "type": "collection",
  "nestedEnvironments": true
}

[drventure]

Definitely this. Insomnia's environments are a pretty simply structure. Take the base, then iteratively apply each level of nesting to the base, till you get to the selected environment.

There's also an additional slight twist to this.

Each FOLDER that you create can also have environment overrides (that are applied lastly).

This allows you to group those requests that have similar environment requirements together and override base env settings for that specific group.

[bbbco]

This is one of the primary hangups preventing me from migrating completely to Bruno. I'm still using Insomnia ... I reverted 2023.4.0 because of issues experienced in 2023.5.x and never did upgrade past that when I saw all the headaches with forcing users to sync with the cloud. 2023.4 has its own issues and slowness and quirks. I'd like to find something more stable and local and Bruno seems to fit the bill.

[Faqual]

Likewise, nested env and nested variables are the main things making me hesitate to migrate immediately

[benyamynbrkyc]

Nesting environments and variables and having these configured by workspace would be fantastic. Would switch immediately

[minamz]

Yes please
I have a use case for testing with different users or different cases in the same env, and this would fit very well