I have created an account on bigchaindb site. Now I want to post some data to online server using http call by postman. I got it that I need to mention api_key and app_id in header. What I need to keep in body and what other parameters should be passed ?
I'm not sure what all you need to tell Postman, but here's a start:
method = POST
URL = https://test.bigchainb.com/api/v1/transactions?mode=commit
Headers
app_id: value
app_key: value
Content-Type: application/json
Body
The final, signed (fulfilled) transaction goes in the body, but I'm not sure what format Postman expects it in. Maybe a Unicode JSON string?
To construct a valid signed transaction, you should probably use one of the BigchainDB drivers, and if you're doing that, then why not also use the same driver to POST the transaction to the BigchainDB Testnet? Here's a list of drivers:
http://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/master/drivers-clients/index.html
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In my postman mock server I would like to use data from the request. Is this possible? I can't seem to find any reference to this scenario.
For example, my request includes a documentId value. I would like to capture that value and use it in the response.
Thanks.
Postman supports capture of URL path parameters for use in the response body, so e.g. if your example has https://my.example.com/v1/users/{{user_id}} in the URL, then you can use {{user_id}} in the response.
That's about as far as it goes though. You can't at present use data from query parameters, headers or the request body in your responses.
If you need to use other types of request data in your mock responses, you might want to check out MockLab. I've written up a detailed comparison of Postman mock servers and MockLab including a specific on dynamic responses and request data.
I am trying to write automated tests with Postman. I am new to postman automation world so sorry if the question will seem dumb.
In the api that I need to test when I send a request I immediately receive a response with a transactionID, no matter transaction succeeded or not. Along with my request I send a CallbackURL to the server where I expect the actual transaction result to be called back. The server will do a PUT request back to the CallbackURL that I have provided with the transactionID and the actual response or error.
So the question is, can I have such kind of scenarios in my postman tests?
I guess I should run a web server and expose an endpoint which will expect a PUT request and I should get the body of this PUT request in my tests to check it, and respond back to it with success.
In other words, within my script I need to perform the following actions:
Do a request to the server passing a callback URL
check the immediate response from the server and keep the returned transactionID
Have a webserver run with an endpoint that I passed as a callback URL
Expect a request to that endpoint with transactionID and actual response
Check that the response is what I actually expected
Respond to the request with success
I was thinking about Postman Mock server, but seems it is not designed for such usage.
I also think may be I can run some JS Webserver (may be nodeJS) inside the postman Sandbox...
Actually I am very new to postman testing and I am really confused about this kind of issue. Is it even possible to do this with postman or I need something else?
There are some features provided by POSTMAN which can help you to resolve your problem
When you do request to server passing callback URL it gives you transactionID in response. Save that transactionID in environment variable or global variable. Same you can do it for callbackURL.
Eg. pm.environment.set("transactionID", transactionID);
Then you can do the second request where you passed callback URL and transactionID which you have already.
In short in POSTMAN there are features like
Set global and environment variable which helps to pass some values fetched from response to another request.
call other request on success of first request
eg. postman.setnextRequest({{requestname}});
If you can mentioned your problem statement little bit in details it will be easy to answer in better way.
Hope This Will Help You
We have an existing rest web service that does a certain online transaction. It was created to receive input of #FormParam type. When we call this web service, we initially just passed the values by appending it to the url
e.g.
/sometransaction?creditCardNumber=123
Problem is, since the number is appended to the url, this gets logged in the web server http requests logs. This cant be since this is sensitive information. We need to pass this the same way a HTML form does a POST submit, it order for the parameters not to be appended to the url and get logged by the web server. Problem is, we don't have a UI page to do this. This is just basically a web service calling another web service.
How can we achieve this?
Code:
#POST
#Path("/dotransaction")
Public Response doTransaction(#BeanParam TxnParams) {
}
Its a rest web service the the params class TxnParams have #FormParam attributes
Ensure the Content-Type is set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded and send the data in the request payload.
Use & to separate the parameters and use = to associate the parameter with its value.
That's what the request will be like:
POST /sometransaction HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
creditCardNumber=4111111111111111&expirationDate=09-2016
And always use HTTPS when sending sensitive information over the wire.
I can't get POSTMAN to send any post variables to my Django app. Suppose I have a post variable called 'report_request' and it has a value that is a JSON string. On the Django side I want to get request.POST['report_request'] and parse the JSON into a dictionary. But POSTMAN never seems to send the POST data. How exactly do I do this? Is there some magical header I need to send?
Doh! My bad. The URL I need to connect to is really HTTPS rather than HTTP, but I was specifying the URL as http://. Apparently if Postman is asked to connect to an HTTPS site using HTTP, it silently just drops all POST variables. How lovely. Anyway it was an easy fix, just change the http:// url to https:// and all is well.
Be sure to provide the POST data in the body (body tab) of the request and not in the parameters (params tab).
Otherwise, POSTMAN will interpret your POST request as being without data and on a url with GET parameters.
See these specifications about csrf if needed
Check if you're sending the csrf token, it's a security feature.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/csrf/
I want to integrate a credit card processing in my website using Paybox.com API's.
I have to send a POST request (using urllib2) to Paybox API's with credit card details (number, date, cvv) when a user submit a form.
How can I secure that? is it enougth to put https://www.mywebsite.com/card/processing in my form action?
How can I send POST data over HTTPS using urllib2?
PS: I work on Django.
Well in terms of security refer to this QA: POST data encryption - Is HTTPS enough?
As far as how to do it, here's an explanation about using urllib: http://www.codercaste.com/2009/11/28/how-to-use-the-urllib-python-library-to-fetch-url-data-and-more/
The idea is to use the urlencode command to create a parameters object for the request, then create a request object from the url and the parameters object, and then call urlopen on the request object in order to actually send the request.
Here are solutions using python-request lib: http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/
request using ssl: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#ssl-cert-verification
request using post: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#more-complicated-post-requests (should also allow verify=True parameter)
By the way, python-request is a very powerful and easy way to make requests.