Is there any way to validate whether a specific value is returned within the entire response which we get from Postman tool and set pass/fail conditions. for eg., my URL will be like https://www.testdomain.com/login?memid=123 and the specific value I am expecting in the response should be containing 'value1', 'value2', 'value3' and if anything else returned for that parameter then it should fail. I tried console.log but it obviously only prints the value and I need to validate manually to check the pass / fail conditions. Thanks in advance.
Sample Response:
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Selecting a value and right-clicking enables me to save it as a Global variable.
But there is no option to save it as a collection variable.
In the environments section as well. I can see Globals but my collection is not available.
But as I go through blogs/ articles online I can see some variables that are scoped to a collection.
Can I know a way to achieve this?
Tests tab is all you need
Considering the Stackoverflow GetUser API for Reference.
NOTE: The below-shown response is a part of the original response.
Response:
{
"items": [
{
"user_type": "registered",
"user_id": 12345678,
}
]
}
In the above response let's say we need user_type, and user_id in another API's URL / body / headers.
Before accessing we need to store these variables after receiving the response. This can be done in the Tests tab in postman request.
const jsonData = JSON.parse(responseBody);
const userType = jsonData?.items?.[0]?.user_type;
const userId = jsonData?.items?.[0]?.user_id;
if(userType){
pm.collectionVariables.set("userType",userType)
}
if(userId){
pm.collectionVariables.set("userId", userId)
}
Points to Note:
Postman tests are written in Javascript.
Optional chaining in line 2,3 is to avoid console errors. Possible Scenario: When API fails and returns an error response.
The IF Statements are to avoid null values in case of an Error Response. If statements are not mandatory. In fact without using if statements you will get to know clearly that something went wrong.
How to use collection variables
Once you make a request with the above tests. Postman IntelliSense suggests available collection variables. ( Refer to the image attached )
We are sending the body as a raw JSON in this Test Endpoint. Note that userType is surrounded by double quotes "" whereas userId is not. ( JSON syntax )
Is there any option to send mock results depends on form data body value in postman?
I am sending some value in the body as form data and I have two example result and now the mock API return only one example I need to get the result based on the form data value from two examples
I have to call 2 Request with different body values(as form-data) and I need to return json array if the values are correct else I need to return a json object I have saved this two result but while I making mock API it is all ways sending now result only there is no changes in url
Is that possible to send response based on form-data in postman mock api?
I have an api example https://api.exmple.com and i am sending post request wit body form-data and filed check:false or check:true and i need to respond two json based on input filed check false or true how to do it?
When we do with get parameter it is working but not working with body form-data
Updates
I added this in header x-mock-match-request-body:true
Post man responding with this error message
{
"error": {
"name": "mockRequestNotFoundError",
"message": "Double check your method and the request path and try again.",
"header": "No matching requests"
}
}
Update I added postman api key but is not working but when i add x-mock-response-name it is working but i need to x-mock-match-request-body only
I have a GET request to OKTA to retrieve some information that uses some variables etc. It returns a body. I have a second request of type PUT where I manually paste the BODY and make a change to one variable. I am trying to determine if I can remove the manual process of pasting in the response body from the 1st GET request onto the second PUT request.
As an example, I have a URL:
GET https://{{myurl}}/api/v1/apps/{{instanceid}}
This returns some dyanmic JSON data in the payload like so
"blah":{ some more blah
},
"signOn": {
"defaultRelayState": null,
"ssoAcsUrlOverride": ""
"audienceOverride": null,
"recipientOverride": null
}
what I am hoping to do is:
PUT https://{{myurl}}/api/v1/apps/{{instanceid}}
{replay entire body from 1st request with the modification of
"ssoAcsUrlOverride": "{{some var that points to a new url}},
}
I have looked at some articles that show:
Using Tests to send a GET request with a static body and replaying that exact body. In this case, I am looking to modify a parameter not replay as=is
I tried this thread here (In postman, how do I take a response body and use it in a new request within Tests
postman-how-do-i-take-a-response-body-and-use-it-in-a-new-request-within-tes) but I get an error stating that responseBody is not defined
First of all, let's validate the JSON response first. Here is the valid JSON with some dummy data.
{
"blah": "some more blah",
"signOn": {
"defaultRelayState": "1",
"ssoAcsUrlOverride": "www.google.com",
"audienceOverride": "true",
"recipientOverride": "yes"
}
}
1) Save first request's response into a environment variable req_body as follows,
var jsonData = pm.response.json();
pm.environment.set("req_body", jsonData);
2) In the PUT request, take another environment variable replace_this_body in body.
3) Get the value of E'variable req_body we had set in the first request in Pre-request script. Then change the value of it and set current request's body variable.
var requestBody = pm.environment.get("req_body");
requestBody.signOn.ssoAcsUrlOverride = "https://www.getpostman.com";
pm.environment.set("replace_this_body", JSON.stringify(requestBody));
Finally, you will get updated request data into PUT request!
I have 2 requests
1st Request
After did my first request, I get the response where I can parse for a taskId
In my test tab, I will then parse and store it like this
let taskId = pm.response.json().body.result[0].data.task
console.log(taskId)
I can see taskId printing in my console as 938
2nd Request
I require making a GET with this dynamic URL with the taskId that I got from the first one
http://localhost:3000/fortinet/monitor/{{taskId}}
So I set the above URL , set the HTTP verb to GET
in my Pre-request Script tab, I did this
let taskId = pm.globals.get("taskId")
Result
ReferenceError: taskId is not defined
Image Result
How can I debug this further?
The most suggested way is to use :key as in
http://localhost:3000/fortinet/monitor/:taskId
See the colon before taskId. The reason being, URI values sometimes many not be environment dependent. So, based on the usecase, you can use like I said or {{taskId}}
You have to set variable, but you are doing it wrong.
try this:
pm.globals.set("taskID", pm.response.json().body.result[0].data.task)
more you can read here:
https://learning.postman.com/docs/postman/variables-and-environments/variables/
Please note, that URL which ends with resource identified like https://example.com/:pathVariable.xml or https://example.com/:pathVariable.json will not work.
You can go with https://example.com/:pathVariable with Accept: application/json header.
For passing dynamic value, first you have to set it in environment or global variable in Tests tab because tests runs after request and you will get response value after request sent, but because you get response in json you have to first parse it, so what you can write in Tests tab is as follows:
var jsonData = JSON.parse(responseBody);
postman.setEnvironmentVariable("taskId", jsonData.token); // OR
postman.setGlobalVariable("taskId", jsonData.token);
Then you can use taskId as {{taskId}} wherever you want in url parameters or in request body or form data wherever.
If you want to know in detail how to extract data from response and chain it to request then you can go to this postman's official blog post which is written by Abhinav Asthana CEO and Co Founder of Postman Company.
Alright, I need some assistance with what I think is an easy question, but after digging for quite a while I'll leave it to you brilliant people to show me why I'm not!
I'm attempting to access a provider api, with the URL I'm attempting to access being: .../proposals/AnotherTestProposal/city_furniture/items?filter=description$CONT"Ag" :: this is the way they want it passed, and it should return all items who's descriptions contain the string "Ag". I know I have two of those currently.
I'm using Django 1.9.4, and requests_oauthlib to create an OAuth1Session, I'm doing this successfully also, because I can access resources without URL params. The trouble is I can't get the "?filter=description..." part to encode properly and it's giving me a 401.
When I render the .contents to HTML I get:
{"status": 404, "message": "", "data": [], "arguments": {"id": "items?filter=description$CONT\"Ag\"", "collection": "city_furniture"}}
which is telling telling me that the "AG" part is being escaped, which I don't want. As in: I don't want \"Ag\", I want "Ag".
So, my question: how can I pass the URL, with params, so they are not containing the slashes as these are causing the URL to be invalid and therefore keeping me from accessing the data correctly?
Other, possibly irrelevant info:
The params part of the URL string I'm passing to the OAuth1Session object now is: '/city_furniture/items%3Ffilter%3Ddescription%24CONT%22Ag%22'
An example of filtering from the API's website: proposals/master/roads/items?filter=description$CONT"highway"
I tried passing an 'encoding' arg to .get (in order to change the encoding used by to_native_string) but requests rejected it saying it was an invalid arg
Per comments, some additional code.
Using a function name get_protected_code() to get the OAuth info passed correctly, then in views.py:
api_filter_url = settings.IW_API_MODEL_COLLECTION + '/' + model_id + '/' + settings.IW_API_PROPOSAL_COLLECTION + '/' + proposal_name + '/city_furniture/items%3Ffilter%3Ddescription%24CONT%22Ag%22'
json_model_info_pull = get_protected_data(api_filter_url)
find_vendor = json_model_info_pull.content
def get_protected_data(url_str):
## ...stuffs to create OAuth1Session...
adsk_pull = OAuth1Session(key,
client_secret=secret,
resource_owner_key=oauth_token_use,
resource_owner_secret=oauth_token_secret_use,
)
headers = {'accept': 'application/vnd.autodesk.infraworks-v1+json'}
api_url = settings.ADSK_IW_INFO_BASE_URL + url_str
json_model_info_pull = adsk_pull.get(api_url, headers=headers)
return json_model_info_pull
Looks like you're passing the parameters incorrectly by appending them to the end of the URL in URL-encoding, which requests is respecting as intentional, and the API endpoint is translating in an unintended manner.
From the documentation for requests, you should provide a params keyword argument to requests.get: a dict containing the key-value pairs that should be encoded and sent as the query string for the request. For example, to run a query against the GitHub API, we can pass an API token as a query parameter:
requests.get('http://api.github.com/user',
params={ 'access_token' : MY_OAUTH_TOKEN })
The resultant request will contain a query string with an access_token parameter set to the value stored in MY_OAUTH_TOKEN and escaped properly, as needed. (Such tokens typically contain = characters, for example, that are invalid inside query string values.)