Inheritance of collection's secrets broken after upgrading to 1.16.x

[gianpo86]

I have checked the following:

• I use the newest version of bruno.
• I've searched existing issues and found nothing related to my issue.

Describe the bug

(Wanted) Behaviour in 1.15 and previous versions:

• Create a collection
• Create a secret in the Env Variables:

• Reference the env variable in the collection's settings:

Use it in the collection's api calls without any reference:

.bru file to reproduce the bug

No response

Screenshots/Live demo link

Incorrect behaviour after updating to 1.16.x

• Create a collection
• Create a secret in the Env Variables:

- Reference the env variable in the collection's settings:

Use it in the collection's api calls without any reference FAILS - the standard variables works

[helloanoop]

Hi @gianpo86 There was a breaking change in v1.16.0 related to how auth inhertiance works

Before 1.16.0, No Auth would inherit the auth credentials by default.
This was a bug and it has been fixed in 1.16.0

In order to inherit the collection auth, you need to explicitly set the Auth option as Inherit in the request.

Can you check if this resolves your issue?

[gianpo86]

@helloanoop Thanks a lot for the quick reply, I was not aware of this change and it makes a lot of sense. Probably I did not read the release nites in deep. Sorry.

Yes, this solves the issue....However, this is a huge pain for us while using Bruno: now we might have to change every single call of all the collections to Inherit

Could it be then possible to have a flow like this:
If Auth in the collection is set, then automatically set the Inherited option at Api call level?

this would make a lot of sense and streamline the authentication flow very much.

[busy-panda]

@gianpo86 you can string replace "auth: none" by "auth: inherit" directly in the files to make the change.
It should be easy enough

[helloanoop]

@gianpo86 You could also open the collection folder in vscode and do a find and replace to bulk update all requests inside a collection