Run shell commands in scripts

[jacob-horton]

It would be really useful if we could run a shell command in the pre/post-request script. This would allow for a lot more flexibility in the scripting.

I have tried using child_process, but that doesn't appear to be accessible (as it's nodejs specific). I've looked into some npm libraries, but all the ones I came across were wrappers for child_process, so also didn't work

Is there some way to do this already that I'm missing, or if not, would it be possible to add an internal library to do this?

Thanks!

[Its-treason]

You can use nodes child_process module after whitelisting it in the bruno.json of your collection like this:

{
  "scripts": {
    "moduleWhitelist": ["child_process"],
    "filesystemAccess": {
      "allow": true
    }
  }
}

Your bruno.json should look like this in the end:

{
  "version": "1",
  "name": "Test",
  "type": "collection",
  "scripts": {
    "moduleWhitelist": ["child_process"],
    "filesystemAccess": {
      "allow": true
    }
  }
}

[jacob-horton]

Perfect, that's exactly what I needed, thank you!

I've made a PR in the docs repo to document this, so will close this issue 🙂

[bpoulaindev]

@jacob-horton I'll add your PR to the new docs