Thunderclient how to pass a response value to the next request-CodePudding

I want to use [thunderclient] to test an http api.

The steps below are all working

  --------                                           ------------------ 
 |        |--1 -- Login with user   pass         -->|  Server          |
 |        |                                         |                  |
 |        |<-2 -- Login reply with access_token  ---|  if user pass ok |
 |        |                                         |                  |
 |        |--3 -- checkConfig-request with token -->|  check token     |
 | Client |                                         |                  |
 |        |<-4 -- Reply with payload             ---|  if token ok     |
  --------                                           ------------------

But currently i copy the value of access_token from step 2 into step 3 and then send the request manually.

This is the reply from step 2

{
  "access_token": "---best---kept---secret---",
  "expires_in": 300,
  "refresh_expires_in": 0,
  "token_type": "Bearer",
  "not-before-policy": 1626860494,
  "scope": ""
}

I want to use the value from access_token from the Login-Reply (2) pass it to a variable {{access_token_cc}} and then use this variable to pass the value of access_token as the Bearer Token in the checkConfig-request (3) (see screen)

Question - how to use a variable?

I do not quite understand how to create a variable and assign a value to it. There is a video on youtube but the step to put the pieces together is to brief and not really explained.

CodePudding user response：

According to the documentation

Set the source of the variable to json.access_token

Determine which type of environment you want to store it to