Unable to get variables pulling from .env located in http directory

[NigelGreenway]

I was looking at this feature request, and my understanding is that the following should work:

# .env
DOMAIN_URL=localhost

# setttings.json
{
    "rest-client.environmentVariables": {
        "local": {
            "DOMAIN_URL": "{{$dotenv DOMAIN_URL}}"
        }
    }
}

# endpoint.http
POST https://{{ DOMAIN_URL }}/some/endpoint HTTP/1.1

However, it does not seem to replace DOMAIN_URL with the value from the .env file.

Am I doing something wrong, or misunderstanding the functionality?

[domoran]

You don't need anything in your settings.json

Just put the .env file in the same directly as the http file (not sure if it can also be in a parent directory or at project root level, could be worth trying out). and directly put in your request:

# .env
DOMAIN_URL=localhost

# endpoint.http
POST https://{{$dotenv DOMAIN_URL}}/some/endpoint HTTP/1.1

[NigelGreenway]

Cheers @domoran. The issue here for me is if that's the case, then we can't share the .http file between the team as it's a mix of editors and this is VS Code specific 😞

I'm a vim user that is researching a way to share these via our code repos and across a team of 50+ engineers, so it looks like this plugin won't work then.

Using the setting config would have been the best solution for us.