Is there a way to override an environment variable in a file?

[ppanchal-mobiz]

I have the environment variable defined in settings.json file like the following code block. I want to override the host variable inside the file. Something like @host="xyz-local.domain.com". I know I can create another environment for local, but that's not what I want.

{
    "rest-client.environmentVariables": {
        "$shared": {
            "host": "xyz.domain.com"
        },
        "dev-env": {
            "host": "xyz-dev.domain.com",
            "api-key": "xxxxxx-xxxxxx"
        }
    }
}

[CodeSmith32]

Can't you just use exactly what you said? Except maybe without quotes:

### Your .http file

@host = xyz-local.domain.com

###
GET https://{{host}}/api/v1/...

[ppanchal-mobiz]

Thank you, that works! Quotes were the problem.

[MominRaza]

Related update: #1422

This discussion is addressed by the new @set directive, which lets you capture response values (response.headers.* / response.body.*) into shared runtime variables and reuse them across .http files.

[ppanchal-mobiz]

Thank you, @MominRaza, however your PR is still open and I've stopped using this extension due to lack of new releases. The last one was in 2022. Moved on to another actively managed extension.