One of the requests for the tool I've been asked to update is the delete request which is structured as follows:
http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/list_id=76218cb5fc45605cd632c26f5c5568ac/del
where the list ID will be different every time you send a request.
In order to simplify usage for end users, I want to be able to have them enter everything they need as parameters or headers in the postman GUI as they do for the other requests, rather than modifying the request URL, so I tried something like this:
http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/list_id=:list_id/del
but if the : is preceded by an equals sign, the postman parameters tab no longer shows list_id as a path parameter.
Is there a way to make this work using a path parameter? Or is the best solution to explain to users that for the delete request, they need to paste the list_id obtained from the other requests into the request URL?
http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/list_id={{list_id}}/del?list_id=1
Now users can pass the list id as query parameter.
In pre-request:
pm.environment.set("list_id",pm.request.url.getQueryString("list_id").split("=")[1])
pm.request.removeQueryParams("list_id")
this will update the list_id varaible and remove the query parameter and send the request in the format you want
If you want to achieve what you are saying then there is no solution for your problem.
But I would suggest you change your URL. As Divyang said, your URL should be like http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/{{list_id}}/del or http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/del?list_id=123 and then you can use params tab assign values to list_id.
But my best suggestion would be to use RESTful design: http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/123123 and make a DELETE request to that URL.
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Arabam is an e-commerce site that I am attempting to query. As an example, given the automobile page, you can add query parameters to the page such as days and sort as follows:
https://www.arabam.com/ikinci-el/otomobil?days=30&sort=startedAt.desc
I will be accessing the data via their API, however, which lives at:
https://api.arabam.com/listing/v2/search
And here is the API Key I'm using:
_V85Kref7xGZHc1XRpUmOhDDd07zhZTOvUSIbJe_sSNHSDV79EjODA==
I am able to make the request using Postman:
But whichever query parameters I pass, the total number of keys in the response remains the same. How do I pass parameters correctly? Either I am not passing them correctly, or these are not the correct parameters. How do I find correct parameters?
I'm relatively new to this so need a bit of guidance.
Have you tried posting the params as a json body instead
I need to change URL of the API in the Postman script before the request is submitted. I see that URL variable is exposed but it's readonly. Is there anyway to accomplish what I need to do?
You can use this function within the pre-request script to change the URL before sending the request.
pm.request.url.update({protocol: "https", host: "jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts"})
The main request is set to hit the postman-echo service but the script changes this and sends it to the jsonplaceholder site.
More information about the types of options you can have in the update function, can be found here:
http://www.postmanlabs.com/postman-collection/Url.html
You might need to provide more information as your query seems very specific.
If it's a URL variable, it could be defined (or definable) in your Envrionment... Have you looked at the Environment dropdown in the top right?
Alternatively if it's read-only and you don't get any joy with the above, maybe it will let you use the Save dropdown on the right of the bar to "Save As"?
you can change the path by
pm.request.url.path = 'xxx'
change the host by
pm.request.url.host = 'xxx'
and other params such as protocalăport , just change as above
I'm currently developing an ckan extension, where i need to redirect to a url on a different domain.
In my plugin i defined a custom action function:
#side_effect_free
def download_json(context, data_dict):
toolkit.redirect_to('http://my.json-builder.com?id=1234')
But when i call this endpoint i just get following response:
response screenshot
So i assume that the action function is called, but the redirect_to call does not redirect to the url i defined.
Thanks for your help!
Florian
It's a bit hard to figure out what you're trying to accomplish but here's a few things I hope will help.
Short Answer:
No, you can't redirect from an API endpoint in CKAN. The endpoint response in CKAN is built up and expects certain things from your action. Your action should return some kind of result. In your case it's returning nothing but trying to redirect. A logic action function with IActions is not the same as a Blueprint or pylons controller action.
See Making an API request docs, specifically the breakdown of an API response in CKAN. Also, you can review the pylons implementation that builds up the API response or the flask blueprints implementation.
More Info to help with your approach:
You say you are trying to call an endpoint that redirects a user to a different domain url. Based on this consider the following:
The first thing I thought you wanted was to have a url that someone goes to through the web interface of your site and are redirected to another site. In this case your example code of toolkit.redirect_to('http://my.json-builder.com?id=1234') makes sense and works for a custom controller action using/implemented with IRoutes or if you're using flask then IBlueprint. A User would go to a URL on your site such as http://localhost.com/download_json and be redirected to the new URL/site in their browser.
If you are intending this to be an API call for other users this starts to feel a little bit odd. If a user is using your API, they would expect to get results from your site in JSON CKAN's API is designed to return JSON. Someone consuming your API endpoint would not expect to be redirected to another site e.g. if I called http://localhost.com/api/3/action/download_json I would expect to get a JSON object like
{
help: "http://localhost/api/3/action/help_show?name=download_json",
success: true,
result: {
...
}
}
They would look for success to make sure the call worked and then they would use the result to keep moving forward with their desired processes. If you do want someone via an API to get redirect info I'd likely return the redirect url as the result e.g. result: {'redirect_url': 'http://my.json-builder.com?id=1234'} and document this well in your extension's API docs (e.g. why you're returning this endpoint, what you expect someone to do with it, etc).
If this is an API call for your own extension I'm guessing what you are trying to do is use my.json-builder.com to build a json of something (a dataset maybe?) and return that json as the result at your endpoint or maybe even consume the result to make something else? If that's the case, then in your function you could make the call to my.json-builder.com, process the results and return the results to the user. In this case, you're not actually wanting to redirect a user to a new site but instead make a call to the new site to get some results. If you actually want the results for your extension you don't need an additional endpoint. You could make the call from your extension, consume the results and return the desired object you're trying to create.
Hope this helps and sorry if I've miss-understood completely.
Suppose, I have a GET, PUT, POST and DELETE methods. I want to have them.
How should a data be sent to each of these methods?
I can send parameter in URL. Parse URL and get value from it.
A value can be sent inside body of request.
A value can be sent inside request's params (?).
What I want as an answer, are links to specifications of how request is made, what is sent, what is used for what. Also, I want 'English' explanation :-)
Also, links on each method. Specifically, I'm interested in passing values to service for each method.
I want to understand how it works on low level.
I'm trying to redirect the browser back to the site root and also pass a variable in order to trigger a JS notification function... This is all with Django.
What I have now is this:
urls.py:
url(r'^accounts/password/reset/complete/$', views.passwordResetComplete,
name='password_reset_complete'),
views.py:
def passwordResetComplete(theRequest):
return redirect(home(theRequest, 'Password reset successful'))
def home(theRequest, myMessage=None):
.........
return render_to_response('new/index.html',
{
"myTopbar": myTopbar,
"isLoggedIn": isLoggedIn,
"myMessage": myMessage
},
context_instance=RequestContext(theRequest)
)
I get this error:
NoReverseMatch: Error importing 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8.......(gives full HTML of page)
I've been working around a few different solutions and nothing seems to work in the way that I need. The closest I've got is to redirect to '/?query-string' with a JS function in root to check for that query-string and run the function if it's present. However, that leaves the query-string in the URL for the duration of the user's navigation of the site (which is 100% AJAX). I want to avoid having any strings/long hrefs in the URL.
Would be really grateful if anyone can tell me how to solve this problem.
HTTP is a stateless protocol, which means that each and every request is entirely unique and separated from anything and everything that has ever been done before. Put more simply, the only way (in HTTP) to "pass a variable" with a URL is to add it to the URL itself (/someobject/1/, for example, where 1 is an object id) or in the querystring (?someobject=1). Either way, the information is embedded in the URL and it's up to your application to decipher that information out of the URL and do something with it.
The concept of a "session" was introduced as a way to provide state to the stateless protocol that is HTTP. The way it works is that the server sends the client a cookie containing some identifiable information (usually, just a session id). Then, the client sends the cookie back to the server in the request headers with every request. The server sees the cookie, looks up the session and continues on seamlessly with whatever is in progress. This is not true state, but it does provide the ability to essentially mimic state, and it's the only way to pass data between requests without actually embedding the data in the URL.
If all you need to return back is a message to the user such as "Password reset successful", you can and should simply use Django's messages framework, which itself uses the session pass the message. It sets a cookie for the client, so that you can redirect to any URL. The cookie will be passed back with the request for that new URL, and Django will add the message from the session into the appropriate place in your template for that URL.
If you need to actually invoke a bit of JavaScript, then you should make the request via AJAX. In the response, you can return any data you want in via JSON (and act on that data however you like) or even return Javascript to be run.
Following the redirect docs, you cannot simply redirect to a view, but only to a url or an object/view that is a assigned to a url already. Thus, you have 2 options:
a) Call the view directly like that:
return home(theRequest, 'Password reset successful')
b) Add a Url patterns like that:
url(r'^your_patterns/$', views.home, msg='',name='home'),
Then you will be able to do what you initally did:
return redirect(views.home,('Password reset successful',))
or from my point of view, even tidier:
return redirect('home',('Password reset successful',))