How to work with variables with fake data variables

HttpRider provides an easy way to add Fake generated data in your API requests. It uses the excellent Faker library to generate fake data. Fake data can be inserted in the request header, query params, form params or body as part of JSON request.

You can either press $ and then type data which should open up the Fake data dialog.

Another way is to right click and select Fake Data from the list.

Currently, you can generate fake data for some common elements with support for more options is in the roadmap. When selected, it’ll insert a function in-place to generate the dynamic value on each request.