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Request mutation?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust, shell

Research direction

Start by tracing how the Rust request is represented and sent upstream, then inspect the V8 isolate integration and shell engine mentioned in the issue. Determine whether mutations to the r. object or $*_FILE environment variables should be supported; done requires an agreed scope and behavior before implementation.

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Description

It would be pretty easy to read back the r. object from the v8 isolate and copy the mutations into the Rust request before sending it upstream. In the shell engine we could provide $*_FILE env and do similar.

Would it be useful though?

Dominant language
Rust
Stars
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Forks
29
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