Allow the specification of collection variables / local variables via the command line

Allow the specification of collection variables via the command line, just like it currently works for the environment and global variables.

--collection-var "foo=bar"

--local-var "foo=bar"

In this way, more variable scopes could be controlled or overridden using the CLI.

[shamasis]

The more I see the need to override variables … started with none, then we added globals, then environment and now there’s a need for collection variable overrides. Let’s take a deeper look to see product-wise if we are missing something that we need to build in a wholistic way.

So, what are the use cases or jobs that we want to do here where overdriving collection variables appear to be a solution?

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One interesting thought is that this may be showing us the need to expose “session” as a first class citizen in newman as well. Postman has this in form of initial value / current value of variables … same may need to be exposed for all variables in Newman.

[universalhandle]

@vdespa: pm.variables.get() behaves as you described. I was able to drop the || logic from my scripts. Thanks again.