[Bug] Axios requests in pre-request scripts behave differently in bruno-app and bruno-cli

[martinsefcik]

In pre-request script I use Axios requests which uses Axios feature that if content-type header is set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded and data is JS object then it is automatically serialized and encoded to urlencoded format. It is documented here: https://axios-http.com/docs/urlencoded#automatic-serialization and it should be available in Axios (if I'm not mistaken) from version 1.0.0

But it is working as expected only in bruno-app and not working correctly in bruno-cli (data object is sent serialized as json and not urlencoded)

Minimal request how to reproduce it:

meta {
  name: test
  type: http
  seq: 1
}

get {
  url: https://www.google.com
  body: none
  auth: none
}

script:pre-request {
  const axios = require('axios');
  let res = await axios({
    url: 'https://webhook.site/ce3d32c9-dbc1-42b5-8894-195beb0bdfea',
    method: 'post',
    data: {
      grant_type: 'client_credentials'
    },
    headers: {
      'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    }
  });
}

I can see on webhook.site that if such request is executed in bruno-app, then raw request body is:

grant_type=client_credentials

If I run this request in bruno-cli then the raw body is:

{
  "grant_type": "client_credentials"
}

bruno-app version: 0.27.0
buno-cli version: 0.15.1

[martinsefcik]

It's strange, it is still working correctly also in 0.27.2 binary but if I run bruno-app from the latest sources then it is working incorrectly the same way as in bruno-cli.

[martinsefcik]

It is caused by inconsistency in Axios versions used in bruno packages. Some of them uses ^1.5.1 and some of them ^0.26.0 and then there is axios.defaults.transformRequest function differently defined (with and without support for this automatic transformation of form url encoded data from object to string). If I updated Axios versions to ^1.5.1 in bruno-js and bruno-app then it starts working correctly in CLI and in App.