make sure url remains set even when entering called features

moving this comment into a new ticket for clarity: https://github.com/karatelabs/karate/issues/2202#issuecomment-1338690477

there was confusion about whether a url should “reset” when entering a “called” feature. I personally may have lost the original intent during some tricky refactoring and discussions

previous related threads: #2054 and #1990

but I have a couple more questions - there are 2 cases, when a call happens in “shared (global) scope” or “isolated (local) scope”: https://github.com/karatelabs/karate#shared-scope

my vote is: the url should be reset if the call is “isolated scope” because the intent is to call “with a clean slate”

and the url should behave just like it would in a single feature otherwise. which is to NOT reset when a call boundary is crossed

[adrian-85]

I actually looked for a configure option as my first solution. I think that would fit well with what the framework already does.

[ptrthomas]

thanks all for your comments. this helps a lot

for reference - I don’t know when I added this to the docs, but it could be after this confusion started to emerge.

https://github.com/karatelabs/karate#call

anyway, I will acknowledge the need to change or mis-understandings on my part and move forward.

can we all agree that only the url is “carried across” the call boundary. in other words, headers and path and parameters will be “lost”.

we can take a decision to never reset the url within a Scenario no matter how many calls it goes through. one advantage of this approach is that it is easy to explain and there is no confusion

that said. I have a new suggestion. let me know if this makes sense:

* configure url = 'http://localhost:8080/v1'

so we introduce a new configure key. if you set it - it will be used throughout your tests, unless the user uses the url keyword !!

how does that sound, that seems to me that it is the best solution for all the issues being discussed. we already have configure headers so it is not a big stretch

let me know !!