Inherit environment variables with default values

[stebberg]

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• I've searched existing issues and found nothing related to my issue.

Describe the feature you want to add

I have a suggestion that I think might be very interesting (postman also have similar feature reqs).

1. Add/change all environment variables (the names) in a base-environment-page and set a default value.
2. Then, changes the values (only values!) in those environments that requires special values, all other variables will keep the base's default value.

BONUS: Be able to inherit environments in a tree where the Base is the top. For instance, if you have 3 environments DEV, STG, PRD. Now, maybe you have an API-gateway for ACC and PRD which requires the request to have another baseurl and an api-key but everything else the same. In this case, I would like to have these environments: DEV, STG, STG-GW (inherited from STG but with a couple of special values), PRD, PRD-GW (inherited from PRD but with some changes).

The problem today, it's a lot of work to keep the environments up to date and it feels kind of ridiculous that you need to add the same variable 5 times if you have 5 environments. Because of course the variables must exist in all environments.

Mockups or Images of the feature

Have no images because I don't know any rest client that supports this :-)

[amalrajvinoth]

FYI insomnia has base environment

[stebberg]

FYI insomnia has base environment

OMG, haha, that's kind of embarrassing coz I've tested insomnia as well :-) but did not find it suitable. Thx for that info though, interesting!