Added params as a flag to request. (#20)

This allows the use to inject arbitrary values to Beau's environment.

bin/cli/base.js

@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@ class Base extends Command {
         return yaml.safeLoad(fs.readFileSync(configFile, 'utf-8'));
     }
 
-    loadConfig(configFile) {
+    loadConfig(configFile, params = []) {
         const config = this.openConfigFile(configFile);
         const env = dotenv.config().parsed || {};
+        params = dotenv.parse(params.reduce((a, p) => a + '\n' + p, ''));
 
-        return new Beau(config, env);
+        const envParams = { params: Object.assign(env, params) };
+
+        return new Beau(config, envParams);
     }
 }
 

bin/cli/commands/request.js

@@ -33,33 +33,38 @@ class RequestCommand extends Base {
     }
 
     async run() {
-        const { flags, args } = this.parse(RequestCommand);
-        const Beau = this.loadConfig(flags.config);
-        this.spinner = new Spinner(clc.yellow(`Requesting: ${args.alias}`), [
-            '⣾',
-            '⣽',
-            '⣻',
-            '⢿',
-            '⡿',
-            '⣟',
-            '⣯',
-            '⣷'
-        ]);
+        const {
+            flags: {
+                param: params,
+                config,
+                'no-format': noFormat = false,
+                verbose = false
+            },
+            args
+        } = this.parse(RequestCommand);
+
+        const Beau = this.loadConfig(config, params);
+
+        const spinnerSprite = ['⣾', '⣽', '⣻', '⢿', '⡿', '⣟', '⣯', '⣷'];
+        this.spinner = new Spinner(
+            clc.yellow(`Requesting: ${args.alias}`),
+            spinnerSprite
+        );
 
         try {
-            if (!flags['no-format']) {
+            if (!noFormat) {
                 this.spinner.start();
             }
 
             let res = await Beau.requests.execByAlias(args.alias);
 
-            if (flags['no-format']) {
+            if (noFormat) {
                 this.log(res.response.status);
                 this.log(res.request.endpoint);
                 this.log(JSON.stringify(res.response.headers));
                 this.log(JSON.stringify(res.response.body));
             } else {
-                this.prettyOutput(res, flags.verbose);
+                this.prettyOutput(res, verbose);
             }
         } catch (err) {
             new Line().output();
@@ -70,7 +75,15 @@ class RequestCommand extends Base {
 }
 
 RequestCommand.description = `Executes a request by name.`;
-RequestCommand.flags = { ...Base.flags };
+RequestCommand.flags = {
+    ...Base.flags,
+    param: flags.string({
+        char: 'P',
+        multiple: true,
+        default: [],
+        description: `Allows you to inject values into the request's environment.`
+    })
+};
 
 RequestCommand.args = [
     {

examples/httpbin.yml

@@ -2,13 +2,14 @@ version: 1
 endpoint: https://httpbin.org/
 
 cookiejar: true
+environment:
+  params:
+    name: David
 
 GET /anything:
   alias: anything
-  form:
-    name: David
-  params:
-    hello: World
+  payload:
+    name: $env.params.name
 
 GET /cookies/set:
   alias: set-cookies
@@ -22,4 +23,5 @@ POST /post:
   alias: post
   formdata:
       file: $[createReadStream('./github.yml')]
-  
+
+