adding helper functions to payloads

v2/pkg/executer/executer_http.go

@@ -218,11 +218,13 @@ func (e *HTTPExecuter) ExecuteParallelHTTP(p *progress.Progress, reqURL string)
 	// Workers that keeps enqueuing new requests
 	maxWorkers := e.bulkHTTPRequest.Threads
 	swg := sizedwaitgroup.New(maxWorkers)
-	for e.bulkHTTPRequest.Next(reqURL) && !result.Done {
+	for e.bulkHTTPRequest.Next(reqURL) {
 		request, err := e.bulkHTTPRequest.MakeHTTPRequest(reqURL, dynamicvalues, e.bulkHTTPRequest.Current(reqURL))
 		if err != nil {
+			if err != requests.ErrNoPayload {
 				result.Error = err
 				p.Drop(remaining)
+			}
 		} else {
 			swg.Add()
 			go func(httpRequest *requests.HTTPRequest) {
@@ -288,10 +290,13 @@ func (e *HTTPExecuter) ExecuteTurboHTTP(reqURL string) *Result {
 		maxWorkers = pipeOptions.MaxPendingRequests
 	}
 	swg := sizedwaitgroup.New(maxWorkers)
-	for e.bulkHTTPRequest.Next(reqURL) && !result.Done {
+	for e.bulkHTTPRequest.Next(reqURL) {
 		request, err := e.bulkHTTPRequest.MakeHTTPRequest(reqURL, dynamicvalues, e.bulkHTTPRequest.Current(reqURL))
 		if err != nil {
+			// ignore the error due to the base request having null paylods
+			if err != requests.ErrNoPayload {
 				result.Error = err
+			}
 		} else {
 			swg.Add()
 			go func(httpRequest *requests.HTTPRequest) {
@@ -353,12 +358,15 @@ func (e *HTTPExecuter) ExecuteHTTP(p *progress.Progress, reqURL string) *Result
 	remaining := e.bulkHTTPRequest.GetRequestCount()
 	e.bulkHTTPRequest.CreateGenerator(reqURL)
 
-	for e.bulkHTTPRequest.Next(reqURL) && !result.Done {
+	for e.bulkHTTPRequest.Next(reqURL) {
 		requestNumber++
 		httpRequest, err := e.bulkHTTPRequest.MakeHTTPRequest(reqURL, dynamicvalues, e.bulkHTTPRequest.Current(reqURL))
 		if err != nil {
+			// ignore the error due to the base request having null paylods
+			if err != requests.ErrNoPayload {
 				result.Error = err
 				p.Drop(remaining)
+			}
 		} else {
 			e.ratelimiter.Take()
 			// If the request was built correctly then execute it
@@ -532,8 +540,8 @@ func (e *HTTPExecuter) handleHTTP(reqURL string, request *requests.HTTPRequest,
 		result.Lock()
 		result.historyData = generators.MergeMaps(result.historyData, matchers.HTTPToMap(resp, body, headers, duration, format))
 		// retrieve current payloads
-		currentPayloads := e.bulkHTTPRequest.GetPayloadsValues(reqURL)
-		if currentPayloads != nil {
+		currentPayloads, err := e.bulkHTTPRequest.GetPayloadsValues(reqURL)
+		if err == nil {
 			// merge them to history data
 			result.historyData = generators.MergeMaps(result.historyData, currentPayloads)
 		}
@@ -718,7 +726,6 @@ func (e *HTTPExecuter) setCustomHeaders(r *requests.HTTPRequest) {
 type Result struct {
 	sync.Mutex
 	GotResults  bool
-	Done        bool
 	Meta        map[string]interface{}
 	Matches     map[string]interface{}
 	Extractions map[string]interface{}

v2/pkg/requests/bulk-http-request.go

@@ -184,7 +184,12 @@ func (r *BulkHTTPRequest) makeHTTPRequestFromRaw(ctx context.Context, baseURL, d
 		r.gsfm.InitOrSkip(baseURL)
 		r.ReadOne(baseURL)
 
-		return r.handleRawWithPaylods(ctx, data, baseURL, values, r.gsfm.Value(baseURL))
+		payloads, err := r.GetPayloadsValues(baseURL)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		return r.handleRawWithPaylods(ctx, data, baseURL, values, payloads)
 	}
 
 	// otherwise continue with normal flow
@@ -484,6 +489,32 @@ func (r *BulkHTTPRequest) Increment(reqURL string) {
 }
 
 // GetPayloadsValues for the specified URL
-func (r *BulkHTTPRequest) GetPayloadsValues(reqURL string) map[string]interface{} {
-	return r.gsfm.Value(reqURL)
+func (r *BulkHTTPRequest) GetPayloadsValues(reqURL string) (map[string]interface{}, error) {
+	payloadProcessedValues := make(map[string]interface{})
+	payloadsFromTemplate := r.gsfm.Value(reqURL)
+	for k, v := range payloadsFromTemplate {
+		// attempts to expand expressions
+		compiled, err := govaluate.NewEvaluableExpressionWithFunctions(v.(string), generators.HelperFunctions())
+		if err != nil {
+			// it is a simple literal payload => proceed with literal value
+			payloadProcessedValues[k] = v
+			continue
 		}
+		// it is an expression - try to solve it
+		expValue, err := compiled.Evaluate(payloadsFromTemplate)
+		if err != nil {
+			// an error occurred => proceed with literal value
+			payloadProcessedValues[k] = v
+			continue
+		}
+		payloadProcessedValues[k] = expValue
+	}
+	var err error
+	if len(payloadProcessedValues) == 0 {
+		err = ErrNoPayload
+	}
+	return payloadProcessedValues, err
+}
+
+// ErrNoPayload error to avoid the additional base null request
+var ErrNoPayload = fmt.Errorf("No payload found")