Settings & Configuration Reference

RouteCase allows you to customize request timeouts, response size limits, redirect behavior, and default environment variables through standard VS Code settings.

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Configuration Properties

You can configure these settings globally in User Settings or per repository in .vscode/settings.json.

{
  "routecase.requestTimeout": 15000,
  "routecase.maxResponseSize": 10485760,
  "routecase.followRedirects": true,
  "routecase.env": {
    "API_BASE_URL": "http://localhost:3000",
    "API_KEY": "dev-secret-key"
  }
}

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Settings Details

routecase.requestTimeout

• Type: number (milliseconds)
• Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
• Description: Maximum time allowed for an individual HTTP request to complete before RouteCase aborts the socket connection and marks the test as ERROR (Timeout).

routecase.maxResponseSize

• Type: number (bytes)
• Default: 5242880 (5 MB)
• Description: Safety threshold on maximum response payload size. Prevents VS Code memory crashes when endpoints accidentally stream massive files or binary dumps.

routecase.followRedirects

• Type: boolean
• Default: false
• Description: Whether RouteCase automatically follows HTTP 301, 302, 307, and 308 redirects. By default, redirects are not followed to allow testing redirect responses, status codes, and Location headers explicitly.

routecase.env

• Type: object (Record<string, string>)
• Default: {}
• Description: Key-value pairs for environment variable substitution. Merged with variables loaded from .rcase.env and .rcase.env.json.