Would like to be able to define a variable in a stage to use in various places in that stage

[pmneve]

In this stage:

 - name: -007C PUT update organization incomplete payload
     request:
       url: "{host}/v2/institutions/{institution_data.id}/organizations/{organization_data.id}/"
       method: PUT
       json:
         branded: !bool "true"
         organization_type: !int 8
         import_comment: "BP-5845-007C"
       headers:
         Accept: 'application/json, text/plain, text/html, */*'
         Accept-Encoding: 'gzip, deflate, br'
         Accept-Language: 'en-US,en;q=0.9'
         Authorization: "JWT {encode_web_token}"
         case_name: "BP-5845-007C"
    response:
       status_code: 400
       headers:
         content-type: "application/json"
       save:
         body:
           put_meta: meta
       body:
         $ext: 
         function: api_helpers:organization_error
             extra_kwargs:
               expected: "{organization_incomplete_expected}"
               targets: "{error_targets}"
               stage: "BP-5845-007C"

I'd like to be able to define a variable with the value "BP-5845-007C" that can be passed to import_comment, case_name, stage, etc.

Am using this to help identify which test-stage created data and/or what stage is running at the time an error is encountered when running through a debugger. Perhaps could then set a watch on the variable in debugger. (using Pycharm).

Any way of doing this?
If not can it be put in the list of enhancements?

[michaelboulton]

Is there a reason it can't just be put into a config file and then including that config file for the whole test?

[pmneve]

The value specifically and uniquely identifies the stage for debugging and coverage (of the api under test) evaluation.

[pmneve]

And it is different for each stage in a test.