Run entry when it matches some condition?

[iredmail]

Problem to solve

Our application supports MySQL and OpenLDAP backends, there're few differences between them, we'd like to run certain hurl entries when it's using X backend. I didn't find condition support in hurl document.

Proposal

Any plan to support such conditions in hurl so that we don't need to handle it with shell script?

Like Ansible, use when:: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_conditionals.html#basic-conditionals-with-when

tasks:
  - name: Shut down Debian flavored systems
    ansible.builtin.command: /sbin/shutdown -t now
    when: ansible_facts['os_family'] == "Debian"

And hurl:

POST {{server}}/domain/abc.io
WHEN: my_variable=my_value

HTTP 200
[Asserts]
...

[jcamiel]

Hi @iredmail

Could you use skip option on some requests (by inverting some logic)?

[iredmail]

Hi @jcamiel,

Thanks for the reply.

• How do i define when it should be true/false? For example: skip: my_var=my_value?
• What if i need to skip for more cases and execute it for less cases? It will require more skip: checks.

A when: like Ansible might be a lot easier. :)

[SilenLoc]

FYI: An "if" was asked twice when I did my Hurl talk