[Bug]: Allow custom templating inside JSON Body

[romain-pereira]

What happened?

I'm working with a data type that could contains templated Strings in JSON and I can't use the software to send a request to it.

Example body:
{ "name": {{CUSTOM_NAME}} }

Steps to reproduce?

1. Launch the application
2. Create a request
3. Add Body with JSON containing templating variables
4. Try send the request

What did you expect to happen?

It would be great to add an option to "Force Submit" a request even if the software detect that you don't defined a template placeholder because it's not related to HTTPie templating system itself.

Or another option to "escape" those variables.

Platform

macOS

HTTPie Desktop version

2022.5.1

Relevant log output

No response

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[dragoangel]

{{CUSTOM_NAME}} definitely not a best choice for JSON 😉 templating, Go templating would be okay if you need template YAML or XML or anything else...

For JSON templating should avoid {{ or }} as on minimized (one-line) JSON you would get a mess 😊, better take something basic like $(var) or even $var and actual body would like { "name": "$name", "age": $age }

[romain-pereira]

I absolutely agree with you but this is not a choice I made, sadly... I have to work on an existing software at work that is doing this and I'm now having to deal with it ... I'm actually working on a complete rework of this and i'll get rid of this stupid templating system. Thanks for your answer and i'll close this issue because you're true, templating a JSON using braces is a really bad idea !