JSON Response Captures

Source file: examples/json_response_captures.hen

What It Demonstrates

• direct and nested & body... -> $VARIABLE captures
• defaulted captures with :=
• dependency reads from earlier requests
• reusing captured values in downstream requests

Key Pattern

GET https://lorem-api.com/api/article/foo

& body.slug -> $ARTICLE_SLUG
& body.author.id -> $AUTHOR_ID
& body.author.email -> $AUTHOR_EMAIL
& body.author.company -> $AUTHOR_COMPANY := unknown

---

> requires: Get Article
GET https://lorem-api.com/api/user/{{ AUTHOR_ID }}

&[Get Article].body.author.email -> $UPSTREAM_AUTHOR_EMAIL

Run It

hen verify ./examples/json_response_captures.hen
hen run ./examples/json_response_captures.hen all --non-interactive

What To Notice

• Captures become ordinary scalar variables for later requests and assertions.
• := gives you a safe fallback when a path may be missing.
• Dependency reads let one request pull specific values from an earlier response without recapturing them.

Related reference: JSON selection