Having authentication both in the config section and in the scenarios section?

[meglenast]

Hello, is it possible to have authentication both in the config section and in the scenarios section. I can't find a similar example to what I'm trying to achieve documented. So far I'm doing the following, which doesn't seem to work.

config:
  target: '/some-target'
  phases::
    - duration: 1
      arrivalRate: 1
 default:
  headers:
    Authorization: 'Bearer  {{token}}'
scenarios:
  - flow:
    -post:
      url: "/some-url"
     auth:
      user: "{{ $processEnvironment.USER }}"
      pass: "{{ $processEnvironment.PASS }}"
    capture:
      json: "$.token"
      as: "token"  

With other words I want to specify some of the request to use the specified authentication schema in the scenario section and for the unspecified request the default authentication method form the cofig section to be used. Is this possible to be done in any way?

[hassy]

hi @meglenast 👋 the values under defaults get set for all requests which don't already have the same value set, so for a request that has auth but no headers.Authorization that will get set as well.

You should be able to set the default with a custom beforeRequest function instead, something like:

function setDefaultAuthHeader(req, vuContext, events, next) {
  if (typeof req.auth === 'undefined') {
    req.headers = req.headers || {};
    req.headers['Authorization'] = `Bearer ${process.env.TOKEN}`; // read token from environment variable
  }
  return next();
}

More info on beforeRequest hooks here: https://www.artillery.io/docs/guides/guides/http-reference#beforerequest-hooks