I have a scenario where i need to pass the body values to an environment variable and use those in another API. In Postman
Below is the body,
{
"firstName" : "Firstname",
"lastName" : "lastname",
"email" : "{{timestamp}}#test.com",
"password" : "{{timestamp}}",
"country" : 8l16
}
Below is the Pre-req script,
postman.setEnvironmentVariable("timestamp", (new
Date).getTime());
// I have copied the Bodyand paste it in a variable called Obj in
Pre-req
// Then i used the below script to get the body
pm.environment.set("rawBody", JSON.stringify(obj));
But the environmental values of timestamp , email and password is coming as below. The timestamp value is correct and other two are wrong.
timestamp = 1566076106769
email = {{timestamp}}#test.com
password = {{timestamp}}
The timestamp value is not getting substituted in email and password,i want the environmental variable value to set as,
Expected values,
email = 1566076106769#test.com
password = 1566076106769
So how can i assign the body element value to an environment/global variable to use in another API call?
Easy. You have set the environmental variable but never got it.
"{ }" doesn't work in code of Tests and Pre-request Script.
Make it like this:
const timestamp = pm.environment.get('timestamp');
email = `${timestamp} #test.com`;
password = timestamp;
Related
I can use
{{guid}}
to get an id for body params that I can use for a new records ID.
How do I use a substring of guid in postman either in that param variable (which is collection level, by the way) or through another variable?
I tried various such as
{{$guid.substring(10)}}
{{$guid}.substring(10)}
but they did not work
I tried to use a pre-request script like this:
pm.collectionVariables.set("short_guid", pm.collectionVariables.get("myGUID").substr(12) )
using my collection variable myGUID which is defined as {{guid}}
along with
"email": "{{$pm.collectionVariables.get('myGUID')}}#example.com",
but it does not work as the variable is not interpreted and I get a string literal
you have to refer variable in body as {{<variablename}} don't need to call pm.varaible.get
for prerequest :
var uuid = require("uuid")
var myUUID = uuid.v4();
pm.environment.set("myuuid",myUUID.substring(20))
console.log(pm.environment.get("myuuid"))
And in body
{
"email": {{myuuid}}
}
you can also use variables in script section as:
console.log(pm.variables.replaceIn("{{$guid}}").substring(20))
This will first replace {{$guid}} with the postman variable value and then find the substring
you can use it like
console.log(pm.variables.replaceIn("this will print {{variable}} value"))
The second issue of variable not detecting is because of the variable scope
In postman variable scope is from right to left , but precedence is from left to right as follows:
Local>data>environment>collection>global
So if you have a environment variable and collection varible with same name , the value of that variable will be from environment not collection
Im currently trying to get used to POSTMAN and i was wondering if there is a way to store variables from my request JSON Body via Pre Request in some environment variable so ican resuse it in the tests for response value cheks
This is how my json File might look like
{
"text" : "myText",
"attachments": {
"text": "myText2",
"anotherText" : "myText3"
}
So i want to get all Values, store them in a variable before sending my request, and then test if they match the expected value in my response
(example: myText2 gets mapped to green, myText3 gets mapped to red and so on)
That would make it possible to write one test for several request
Thanks a lot!
You can write the following in your script:
let body = JSON.parse(pm.request.body);
_.forEach(body, (value, key) => pm.environment.set(key, JSON.stringify(value)));
This will set each key and it's associated value as an environment variables.
Note you'll need to JSON.parse the value in the test script before using it for testing.
For eg in your test script you'll need to do something like this:
let attachments = JSON.parse(pm.environment.get('attachments'));
pm.test('All attachments are of correct value', function () {
// ...write your test here using the `attachments` variable
});
After posting the request, API return response body as string
Response body look like
{ UniqueID = 93243434,birthGender = M,birthDate = 11/1/2018 5:51:18
PM, familyNames = James, givenNames = Test }
when I try to set the environment variable using the below code
var data = JSON.parse(responseBody);
postman.setEnvironmentVariable("currentUniqueId", data.UniqueId);
I got the below error on test results
Error message:
There was an error in evaluating the test script: JSONError:
Unexpected token 'U' at 1:3 { UniqueID = 93243434,birthGender =
M,birthDate = 11/1/2018 5:51:18 PM, family ^
my goal is I need to extract the value 93243434 and assign to environment variable.
Hi you are using the correct way but you can try this version
var jsonData = pm.response.json();
pm.environment.set("UNIQUE_ID", jsonData.UniqueID);
The set("UNIQUE_ID" will help you save it in variable and you can name it as you want and jsonData.uniqueID will extract what you want to get from the Json response
If you view my approach I am extracting Access code and company id and saving it in variable and calling it in all next api's
You are using a notation pattern that is deprecated.
Instead of set your variable using:
var data = JSON.parse(responseBody);
postman.setEnvironmentVariable("currentUniqueId", data.UniqueId);
Try to set your variable this way:
pm.environment.set('currentUniqueId', pm.response.json().UniqueID);
To get more information, try: https://learning.getpostman.com/docs/postman/scripts/test_examples/
I'm trying to use a pre-request script to build out a request object based on data pulled from a CSV file. The problem is that the request seems to be set in stone prior to the pre-request script being run. That would seem to make this a mid-request script almost rather than a pre-request.
My code is as follows:
if(ipList === undefined) ipList = "1.2.3.4,2.3.4.5,123.234.345.465";
let ips = ipList.split(',');
let queryArray = [];
for( i=0; i<ips.length; i++){
queryArray.push({ "key": "ip", "value": ips[i] });
}
console.log(queryArray);
pm.request.url.query = queryArray;
console.log(pm.request);
When I hardcode a url query variable in the request to equal 4.3.2.1, the pm.response.url object like this:
pm.request.url.query[0] = {key:"ip", value:"4.3.2.1"}
Note that the url.query[0] part of the object matches the parameter in the actual get request.
When I change the value of pm.request.url.query to equal the new query array, however as you can see here, the query array is set correctly, but the parameters are not appended to the request URL.
So unless I'm doing something wrong, it appears that the request is immutable even to the pre-request scripts.
So my question is this:
Is there a way to modify the url params of a request prior to making the request?
BTW: I know that is might seem odd to have multiple params with the same key in a query, but that's the way this API works and hard coding multiple ip addresses in the query works just fine.
You could just assign a new value to pm.request.url.
Here I had some query params already in the URL, which I had to edit:
const urlSplit = request.url.split('?');
const paramsString = urlSplit[1]; // the second part actually represents the query string we need to modify
const eachParamArray = paramsString.split('&');
let params = {};
eachParamArray.forEach((param) => {
const key = param.split('=')[0];
const value = param.split('=')[1];
Object.assign(params, {[key]: value});
});
params.bla = params.bla + 'foobar';
newQueryString = Object.keys(params).map(key => key + '=' + params[key]).join('&');
pm.request.url = urlSplit[0] + '?' + newQueryString;
In the end, I just constructed a new URL, using the first part of the previous one & the query string with the edited bla parameter.
This seemed to work for me--it didn't change what the UI shows the query string is, but it changed what the actual request was (looking at the console log)
pm.request.url.addQueryParams(["a=1", "b=2"])
pm.request.url.query.remove("b")
I have some parameters called "script_loginAs" etc... named such that people on my team know the parameter is evaluated and not sent.
I am trying to use TideSDK's Ti.Network to set the name and value of my cookie.
But how do I get this cookie's value from my other pages?
var httpcli;
httpcli = Ti.Network.createHTTPCookie();
httpcli.setName(cname); //cname is my cookie name
httpcli.setValue(cvalue); //cvalue is the value that I am going to give my cookie
alert("COOKIE value is: "+httpcli.getValue());
How would I retrieve this cookie value from my next page? Thank you in advance!
ok, there are a lot of ways to create storage content on tidesdk. cookies could be one of them, but not necessary mandatory.
In my personal oppinion, cookies are too limited to store information, so I suggest you to store user information in a JSON File, so you can store from single pieces of information to large structures (depending of the project). Supposing you have a project in which the client have to store the app configuration like 'preferred path' to store files or saving strings (such first name, last name) you can use Ti.FileSystem to store and read such information.:
in the following example, I use jQuery to read a stored json string in a file:
File Contents (conf.json):
{
"fname" : "erick",
"lname" : "rodriguez",
"customFolder" : "c:\\myApp\\userConfig\\"
}
Note : For some reason, Tidesdk cannot parse a json structure like because it interprets conf.json as a textfile, so the parsing will work if you remove all the tabs and spaces:
{"fname":"erick","lname":"rodriguez","customFolder":"c:\\myApp\\userConfig\\"}
now let's read it.... (myappfolder is the path of your storage folder)
readfi = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(myappfolder,"conf.json");
Stream = Ti.Filesystem.getFileStream(readfi);
Stream.open(Ti.Filesystem.MODE_READ);
contents = Stream.read();
contents = JSON.parse(contents.toString);
console.log(contents);
now let's store it....
function saveFile(pathToFile) {
var readfi,Stream,contents;
readfi = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(pathToFile);
Stream = Ti.Filesystem.getFileStream(readfi);
Stream.open(Ti.Filesystem.MODE_READ);
contents = Stream.read();
return contents.toString();
};
//if a JSON var is defined into js, there is no problem
var jsonObject = {
"fname":"joe",
"lname":"doe",
"customFolder" : "c:\\joe\\folder\\"
}
var file = pathToMyAppStorage + "\\" + "conf.json";
var saved = writeTextFile(file,JSON.stringify(jsonObject));
console.log(saved);