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Status Will not implement
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 18, 2022

Flow UX - Automatic assignment of JSON response variables from HTTP responses

A question more than a suggestion:

Developing Tenjin flows has shown that some flows can become very large. This can hinder navigation and make readability at wider zoom levels difficult or impossible. In many of these flows, 'Assign Variable' actions make up a large proportion of these action boxes, in some cases almost doubling up the overall size of the flow (if there are many HTTP actions for example).

As these 'Assign Variable' actions are not actual business logic actions, the business logic can feel lost among all of the assignment actions, affecting the overall readability.

Is it possible to automatically create variables from HTTP responses (where JSON has been returned)?

Assign variables would still be useful for manipulation etc, but it's possible the above would cut down the overall size and improve readability where, in many cases, we are simply assigning variables from the response.


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