Plugin template tags in requests cause errors in Inso

[niamtokik]

Hi everyone,

I am actually using insomnia-inso in version 2.2.28, directly from sources, running on ubuntu 20.04 with node 10.19.0. The design document was created using insomnia-designer and OpenAPI 3.0.0 schema. Insomnia-designer was installed directly from the official website, by using snap.

The API I am documenting right know is using authentication to retrieve a token based on JWT. To have access to this token, I need to use a request with valid credentials. So, the idea is the following:

0. Define the security scheme

# ...
components:
  securitySchemes:
    BearerToken:
      type: http
      name: Authorization
      in: header
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: bearer
# ...

1. Create the request to the JWT authentication. User and password are set in environment.
2. Create another request to fetch an information, like connected user session state on another end-point.
   2.1. The Debug request is automatically generated by the previous security schemes defined in the components section.
   2.2. Unfortunatelly, the token is automatically configured using a variables {{bearerToken}}
   2.3. To automate thing, I created a chained request, extracting automatically the token from the JWT authentication request
   2.4. I pasted the resulting chained request in the variable environment like that:

{
  "user": "my_valid_user",
  "password": "my_valid_password",
  "bearerToken": "{% response 'body', 'req_wrk_23bea...', 'b64::...', 'always', 60 %}"
}

3. when executed in Insomnia-designer, everything work fine
4. when executed in insomnia-inso, the test with bearerToken stored as template fail

  1) JWT Authentication
       Authenticate:
     Error: No responses for request
      at nj.renderString (/home/user/src/insomnia/packages/insomnia-inso/node_modules/insomnia-send-request/dist/index.js:6083:26)
      at /home/user/src/insomnia/packages/insomnia-inso/node_modules/nunjucks/src/environment.js:39:5
      at RawTask.call (/home/user/src/insomnia/packages/insomnia-inso/node_modules/asap/asap.js:40:19)
      at flush (/home/user/src/insomnia/packages/insomnia-inso/node_modules/asap/raw.js:50:29)
      at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)

  2) JWT Authentication
       Check User:
     Error: No responses for request
      at nj.renderString (/home/user/src/insomnia/packages/insomnia-inso/node_modules/insomnia-send-request/dist/index.js:6083:26)
      at /home/user/src/insomnia/packages/insomnia-inso/node_modules/nunjucks/src/environment.js:39:5
      at RawTask.call (/home/user/src/insomnia/packages/insomnia-inso/node_modules/asap/asap.js:40:19)
      at flush (/home/user/src/insomnia/packages/insomnia-inso/node_modules/asap/raw.js:50:29)
      at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)

I tried to fix the issues by upgrading to the last nodejs stable version (14.15.3), and have the same result.

[nijikokun]

Currently, templating is non-functional with inso. It's on the roadmap, but we haven't gotten around to adding support for it.

[niamtokik]

I can probably help you, but I am really bad with node. If you have an idea how to do that, I can probably start working on it.

[develohpanda]

Related to #3261, but I'll keep this issue open for the description. The lack of template/plugin support is a known limitation as described above.

[develohpanda]

Cross-linking: #3858