Working With Large Values

Yaak does its best to help prevent large values from slowing down or crashing the user interface such as hiding large text values in request and response bodies by default, but extremely large values can still bog down the Yaak interface. Here are a few strategies to deal with that.

Reference request body as file

The Binary File request body type is the best option for keeping large text strings out of the Yaak user interface. Whether you’re sending an actual binary file like an image, or a large JSON blob.

## Reference parts of request body as file

Yaak also includes the fs.readFile(...) Template Function for including large portions of text into a structured request body. This function can be used in any text field, so it’s perfect for including large text values within a JSON body, form data, or even headers.