These Postman series are wonderful and they helped me enjoy learning Postman! Thank you for putting them together! I love that you don't use complex, abstract technical jargon and you show how to perform the needed Postman action! I'll definitely recommend this series to anyone learning Postman.
Hi Raghav ! Your tutoriel is awesome, fantastic. I am a manual tester and I had to test API with Postman with basically zero knowledge of API. You are such a great trainer, your explanations are fluid. You did an amazing job with these videos. I am definetely advising your channel to my colleagues. Congratulations !
Amazing tutorial. you stick to the subject and even go back to explain some things that people may have missed or don't have time to go back and are looking for a quick reference. I have subscribed and will view your other tutorials. Thank you.
Thanks for the video, after searching 1 and half day got solution of JSON Path identifier. it helped us to compare request and reponse JSON. the values compartion
@@RaghavPal If there is any video about, how one can showcase there learning of API to prospective employer if person is not having any hands-on experience in API testing? Please share link if available or would like to request to make one such video.
Your Step by steps Tutorials was really help me understand the Automation Process. Thank you so much. I hope someday I can meet you personally to say THANK YOU ! :) Please do not stop creating amazing automation tutorials like this one. I will be recommending this videos on my team. Thank you Raghav!
@@RaghavPal I'm from the Philippines Bro. I'm currently working now as an Automation QA Engineer Lead. I still have many things to learn and your tutorials really helps me a lot. 🙏
Hi Raghav, is there a way to automatically update all the names returned? For example, I want to update Charles, Eve, and Tracey, while I do not know how many names will be returned in total. I can do this in Python by storing the names returned by the GET API in a list and run a loop traversing the list, each iteration will call the POST API. However, I don't know how to do this in Postman.
Hi, Here in order to fetch 'Charles' you are using json path finder, which shows the path in an index based format. (data[1].firstname), May be in my next execution, this path can change, Like charles name might be moved to some other index/path. In this case how we identify, each time we can identify manually and update the Tests right? Please help.
or please write here as example, in this case how to get the random id of the customer whos name is charles from a response body (I know my response has a customer with name charles, but I want to identify the id and set as varible for my next api request to use) something like this, how to achieve.. Please help, I googled many times but no help !
Hi Sir, We are getting two nodes with first names as Charles and others(13:00). If I want to post the details of all available members at a time means can I use loops in the scripts to iterate?
Thanks a lot Raghav, I followed all of yours tutorial for Postman. Really well explained and easy to understand. I have a request, if you could make a video on: "how to use LinkedIn, Google and Facebook APIs in our webapp for the purpose of logging in and signing up" . Thanks Again
Hi Raghav, thanks for your nice tutorials. The audio changed since the previous ones, and it is a bit disturbing because of some mouth sounds, but the volume is higher than on the previous, which is good!
Hi Simon, you're welcome. Thanks for you feedback. Have recorded this after some time since the last video in postman series. I will take care of audio in next video.
Hi Raghav, went through all your videos on Postman. Thanks for putting all of these videos together. Your tutorials are very well explained, detailed and simple. THANK YOU. However, i was wondering if you have any upcoming videos where you can dive into advance postman scripting. Looking forward to your reply
Hi Raghav. I have a scenario where I need to validate a tag and its value in xml response. If I am data driving the run, each case response will have the same tags with different values based on the input data pass to the script . How do I automate this ?
I have watched all your videos and I am new to API testing its very easy to understand but could you please let me know what is the purpose of fetching response data and setting to an environment variable.
This is for using the value in the next request, sometimes we need to create a chain, like the token value needs to be passed to maintain the logged in session
I have a question. what you did is, you update username from taking get listuser. can't we update the value to listuser that is already there ? You take charles from get listuser and update on morpheous which is already updated one. can't we update username charles from listuser to new name ? i just want to update the username that is on get listuser with the new username
Hi Raghav , your videos are very useful. 1. Is there any way to to pass Authorization Token to all the request in the Collection in one go? 2. I have a scenario in which API will create a pre-signed S3 url and then I have to upload an attachment in the created url. How to upload attachment in the request while running collection?
@Raghav Wonderful explanation. Please can you explain how to filter response body based on end nodes. In your example how to get response only for id=4 or Name="Eve"?
Hi Jayaraja, you need to provide the right json path (in case of json response) or xpath (in case of xml response). I have shown some ways to get the path, like using json path finder. So for id=4 path will be x[0].data[0].id Similarly for Eve it will be x[0].data[0].first_name
Thanks Raghav I am having issue with the export of postman. When I run these and then export and then import it then request or response are not saved. Only pass or fail status is saved. How to save the responses also to that postman export. I was running at collection level
Hello there, I have a question. I need to get the value of a specific JSON response that has several values. The response comes as an array and consists of several values. Example: I want to get the JSON response value of the " 77 " Id number. I know I can take this value by doing this = " jsonData[1].Id. But the problem is, what if I don't know that 77 id response is situated at ?? That is the issue I have. I have a value of 77. But I don't know at which element it is situated. Could you please help me? Thanks [ { "Id": "76", "CustomerName": "Sam", }, { "Id": "77", "CustomerName": "John", }, ]
Hello Sir, I am trying to get the 0 the number UserName but it is throwing an below error- TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '0') can help me in this.
Hi Kaustubh The error you are getting is because the `UserName` property is undefined. This can happen if the response from the API does not contain the `UserName` property. To fix this, you need to make sure that the response from the API contains the `UserName` property. You can do this by checking the documentation for the API. If the response from the API does not contain the `UserName` property, you will need to modify your request to include the `UserName` property. You can do this by adding the `UserName` property to the request body. Here is an example of a request that includes the `UserName` property: ``` { "UserName": "John Doe" } ``` Once you have modified your request, you should be able to get the `UserName` property without any errors. Here is an example of how to get the `UserName` property in Postman: 1. Open the Postman app. 2. Create a new request. 3. In the URL field, enter the URL of the API. 4. In the Body tab, select the "raw" radio button. 5. In the text field, paste the following JSON: ``` { "UserName": "John Doe" } ``` 6. Click on the "Send" button. The response from the API should contain the `UserName` property. You can view the `UserName` property in the Response tab. I hope this helps
Hi Sir.. I have a doubt. I am getting a array as [ "1","2","3"] from a get api and storing it in a variable. But if i pass it to another post request it is read as ["1,2,3"] means the double quotes are removed. Can u please help me here. I need it to be passed it as I m getting. 😊
Hi Kranthi, pls check the syntax, can compare with official documentation, your json data is in pm. So you need to retrieve your JSON data using the below code. var jsonData = pm.response.json(); pm.test("Verify Json values", function () { pm.expect(jsonData.success).is.to.equal(true); });
How should we do this same for the xml responses? I am using var jsonObject = xml2Json(responseBody); to convert xml to json now what should be done further? I have tried following; //Converting XML to JSON var jsonObject = xml2Json(responseBody); //converted the XML responseBody to JSONobject responseData = JSON.parse(jsonObject); // tried to parse jsonObject and store data in responseData variable responseValue = responseData(jsonObject['Order']['orderNumber']); // from responsedata tried to get the value pm.collectionVariables.set("orderNumber", responseValue); // tried to store it in collection variable Below is the error seen; There was an error in evaluating the test script: JSONError: Unexpected token 'o' at 1:2 [object Object] ^
@@RaghavPal I was able to get it working if the request and response is XML as below; //Converting responseBody from XML to JSON var jsonObject = xml2Json(responseBody); //Identify and Capture the field values from responsebody in a variable let orderNumber = jsonObject[.....order xml objects]['orderNumber']; //Putting the value of orderNumber in collectionVariable from the responseBody pm.collectionVariables.set("orderNumber", orderNumber);
Hi Raghav , after completing that chain connecting API . Can we import that collection in json and we can use that in terminal window. That environmental values will get remain same . Iam waiting for your reply .
Hi Vijay, you should be able to do that, and you can also download env as json file and provide in command - newman run -e environment1.json --env-var foo=bar3 References - www.npmjs.com/package/newman#newman-options github.com/postmanlabs/newman/issues/764 stackoverflow.com/questions/43924363/newman-postmant-specify-a-single-environment-variable-via-command-line
raghav sir - Thank you so much for you tuturials its is very much helpful for us and we all appreciate your quick response reposes for our questions it has helped us lot in our day to day activity of work. Please can you share formate for API Test Scenario and Test cases and what all negative points we should consider in API Testing. please can you make tutorial on MangoDb and RabbitMQ Many thanks sir
Thank you. These series are great. Let me ask you a question about this session. Is it possible to do a loop using the get and update api? the fist one will get the user id (it will be nice to be able to filter some records) and the second one will update the user description or anything else.
You can do Paulo, you can also write code in JavaScript if required. I will suggest to check Request Workflows - learning.postman.com/docs/running-collections/building-workflows/
At the video time of 3: 00 minutes when we are creating a GET Request for 'LIST USERS', you mention the Params tab gets automatically populated. What is the significance of the Params tab? Why / When /How is it used?
If there are any parameters in your request, you can give it here, Like in the example shown page=2, it took it automatically from the url and you can add more if required
Thank you very much! the api calls that i testing, i was trying to figure how i can use what is response body for the other 3 api calls, I watched your video,now I need to try it out!
@@RaghavPal : When we fetch a list of users, a particular user may exist in different nodes during repeated execution as number of users may grow or shrink during the phase.
Okay got it, in this case you can create the json path or xpath using regular expressions for dynamic searching. examples goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/
Great course, i have been following along and learned a lot! I have a problem with this one though, when i do a PUT request it does not update the data. Even though I send 'Morpheus' data in my request body, it responds with 'Janet Weaver' data as if I just did a GET request. Why?
Hi Raghav, I followed everything you taught here but somehow when I run the request current value of the variable is not getting updated from "abc" to what I can see in the response. Could you please help me on this?
Hello Raghav, Can you tell me how to validate nested fields text from api response. I have used "pm.expect(pm.response.json().data).to.have.all.keys( "column1 ", "column2", "column2A", "column2B", "column2C")" but not able to validate nested fields such as column2A, column2B For eg. { "column1 ": value1, "column2 : column2A": value2, "column2 : column2B": value3, "column2 : column2C": value4, } My requirement : To check (through test scripts) api response must have all the column names such as column 1,column 2, column2A ,column2B,column2C Regards, Sayali
Thanks Raghav. Actually, my question is not about verifying the value in the response body. My requirement : To check (through test scripts) api response must have all the column names such as column 1,column 2, column2A ,column2B,column2C I just want to test whether all these columns are present in the api response and do not need to deal with their value validation.
Thank you very much for this helpful tutoriels. I have a problem to get value from xml response for soap api. can you please make an other video for this part?
Hi Polina, suppose you have a API to create a user and in the response you get a userid, Now you need to use this user id in another api. Let's say to update user. So in real-world this chaining is very much required as we do not want to do any manual intervention while running a complete scenario or use-case
But, when i am parsing the value which is encrypted (e.g. "TxnID":"1234|#$^%^^yt*(& 9438"), and when I am trying to pass this value in next request, the of TxnID treated as next line and response is getting failed. Please help on this.
@@RaghavPal but this next line char is dynamic, sometime it will come and sometime not. So, whenever next line char is not coming then only i am getting correct response. But, this problem doesn't happen in other tools like jmeter. In jmeter, it passes next line char as thats why i am getting correct response everytime.
Hi Vijay, you can refer the data from json and csv files and there is tutorial on that, Not sure if you can get the complete body and structure directly. Will need to check online
Hello Raghav I tried to chain values between APIs with SOAP in order to retrieve an ISO code from one request and pass it to another request, though without success I've tried to reach the ISO code of a country in the response with xpath like you did here, only that you did it with JSON. and it gives me syntax error. this is the code : responseData = XML.parse(responseBody) value = responseData.*:soap:Envelope/soap:Body/m:CountryISOCodeResponse/m:CountryISOCodeResult Also was it correct to use the XML object instead of the JSON Object? Thank you in advance
Hi Gilad, I believe the issue is with XPath. Check your xpath here - xmltoolbox.appspot.com/xpath_generator.html www.freeformatter.com/xpath-tester.html
Hello Raghav, Thanks a lot for your videos:) They are just superb. I have some questions on the postman automation negative scenarios api testing. 1) In single api request, can we write/test positive and negative test scenarios by writing both the test scripts ? For eg. I have to test '200 OK' status as well as '400 bad request' status in 1 single api request for each api end point. Will it be possible ? How to do negative testing in postman (Automation testing through test scripts) ? 2) In our project, we want to use Monitor option for automatic api testing , and there is no option to import data file with different data. Please confirm. So in the above case if there are various api end points with various parameters in a project , how can I test the api end points with different data ? Thanks
Hi Sayali, for the first one, you need to run your request with diff parameters, for this you can use 1. external data file OR 2. use pre-request scripts, variables and workflows th-cam.com/video/sZKoBQ1HpKw/w-d-xo.html For the monitor option, I am not too sure and will have to check online
Thank you so much for your quick response. In data file option, I am able to pass the test data only for one api request and not more than that. I have multiple requests in my collection,so not able to pass data for all the requests in a single file. Can you tell me how to solve this ?
I want to fetch incptdt from below xpatch. but I am not getting exatch path name. How do i find and update {"backdtpremium":0,"partyid":"000000","BD":[],"incpDt":"04-Mar-2022"
Hi Raghav, It is so good , every topic explained in very clear manner . I have one question ; when i use responsebody in test section to write script it says responsebody is not defined . Can u please let me know what is the issue here- ReferenceError: responsebBody is not defined Below script user in test section- JsonData = JSON.parse(responsebBody); value = bodyData.data[1].first_name console.log("value") can u please help me here?
Hi Sudeep, here you are storing the response in variable JsonData and then using the variable bodyData. Where did you use the variable responsebBody. Pls check
Do you have any tips on how to do this on a bigger scale. I.e I want to take all subscription details from Mail Chimp and update contacts on a share point list...
Here you are getting all the details in the Page 2 and then filtering for 'Charles'.. Can you optimize GET Request to get only that record or object from the API ?
Thanks for session. It was quite helpful. But i have another question. In this example of yours, you should run the first call manually inorder to get and pass the first_name to the second update call. But i would like to see a tutorial in which when the second call i run, the first should get automatically executed, without anyone manually running the first call to fetch the token. Is it possible via Postman?
Useful tutorial. Just want to know how to use environment variable in assertion. I have an environment variable "name" . I want to verify if my response body contains pm.expect(pm.response.text()).to.include("name welcome");
Good Night I profess to help myself, I am new to Postaman and I am experiencing the following problem. I need to test an API where I need to import a CSV file and check the PATH of the API if it is correct. Watch all your classes and the most similar to my problem and UPDATE. But I'm not able to import the file and checking the information in the API can help me by indicating a very explanatory tutorial or telling me which class can help me. I appreciate the help.
Hi Rodolfo, You can take some help from the Postman CSV tutorial here - th-cam.com/play/PLhW3qG5bs-L-oT0GenwPLcJAPD_SiFK3C.html And will also need some online help to complete your task
Hi Raghav i am trying your video to extract value from response but i am getting this error message in console "TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined".Can you please help me.
Hi Raghavl this is very uselful. Imagine another scenario in which we have more than 2 requests( lets say 5 requests.. or more)Even if we extract some value from request 1 would we be able to use it in the request number 5 within the collection right? thanks!
These Postman series are wonderful and they helped me enjoy learning Postman! Thank you for putting them together! I love that you don't use complex, abstract technical jargon and you show how to perform the needed Postman action! I'll definitely recommend this series to anyone learning Postman.
Great to hear! Polina, you can find more here - automationstepbystep.com/
Me too. Clarity is best
Hi Raghav ! Your tutoriel is awesome, fantastic. I am a manual tester and I had to test API with Postman with basically zero knowledge of API. You are such a great trainer, your explanations are fluid. You did an amazing job with these videos. I am definetely advising your channel to my colleagues. Congratulations !
Glad to know this
no words to explain the simplicity with which you explain in videos. Thank you !!
You're welcome Umang. Thanks for the message, humbled
Amazing tutorial. you stick to the subject and even go back to explain some things that people may have missed or don't have time to go back and are looking for a quick reference. I have subscribed and will view your other tutorials. Thank you.
Glad to know this helped Don. Keep learning
I have viewed all the 18 postman tutorials. Great explanation, it help me a lot. Thanks Raghav.
Excellent Ankur
Thankyou Raghav for putting together 18 lessons on Postman. You did it well.
Thanks Jeff, means a lot. Can also check the Postman Crash course here automationstepbystep.com/
Thanks Jeff, means a lot. Can also check the Postman Crash course here automationstepbystep.com/
Thanks for the video, after searching 1 and half day got solution of JSON Path identifier. it helped us to compare request and reponse JSON. the values compartion
Great to know this Shruthi ..keep learning
Your videos are self explanatory, I have no words to appreciate your work.
So nice of you Sheenam
This is very clear set of videos on Postman and explain what is expected in a simple manner. Thanks a lot of great job.
You're welcome Sumedha
Thank you for your instructions. I watched all your API tutorials. They are awesome. Thank you Raghav.
You are welcome Zafer
Thanks a lot.... really this sessions are very helpful to me ....🙏🙏🙏🙏
Most welcome
4years back this informative video was published. Hats off
thanks Shubham
You make it just simple and easy to understand. I was just looking for exactly same and I got it. So grateful!!
I'm so glad Gayatree
@@RaghavPal If there is any video about, how one can showcase there learning of API to prospective employer if person is not having any hands-on experience in API testing? Please share link if available or would like to request to make one such video.
Hi Gayatree, you can go through basic API sessions here - automationstepbystep.com/
Thank you, this is exactly what I needed! I struggled with this for weeks!
You're so welcome Lisa, Keep learning and let me know if you face any issues
It was great. I learned it easily. I'm very new on this variable setup in a Postman and you made it smooth for me. Thanks.
You're very welcome Jigar
This video is just amazing. Exactly what I've been looking for. Big Thanks!
You're welcome!
Your Step by steps Tutorials was really help me understand the Automation Process. Thank you so much. I hope someday I can meet you personally to say THANK YOU ! :) Please do not stop creating amazing automation tutorials like this one. I will be recommending this videos on my team. Thank you Raghav!
You are most welcome, and I hope to see you, where are you from
@@RaghavPal I'm from the Philippines Bro. I'm currently working now as an Automation QA Engineer Lead. I still have many things to learn and your tutorials really helps me a lot. 🙏
so happy to know this
These tutorials were really helpful and easy to follow. Thank you so much.
You're welcome Aaron
I have saved this video to my favorites! And I am sharing this with others, too!
Awesome! Thank you! Suayip
Awesome series for beginner.Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Most welcome Divya
This is so helpful.
Thank you so much Raghav...
Most welcome Shruthi
Thank you so much for the sharing step by step!!
You are so welcome!
Thank you very much Raghav for your efforts and it is really helping us to start API testing.
Glad to know this Kiran, Can check all here - automationstepbystep.com/
Wonderful explanation Sir...You made it so easy...Thank you so much
You are most welcome Pramod
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Well done!
Glad it was helpful!
Well thank's man
i'm able to set global variable for my token header.
good job !
You are welcome Nizar
saving this because I know I am gonna forgot this again. thanks man.
Most welcome Naveen
Hi Raghav, is there a way to automatically update all the names returned? For example, I want to update Charles, Eve, and Tracey, while I do not know how many names will be returned in total. I can do this in Python by storing the names returned by the GET API in a list and run a loop traversing the list, each iteration will call the POST API. However, I don't know how to do this in Postman.
Hi, we can do such operations in Postman, This will help blog.postman.com/extracting-data-from-responses-and-chaining-requests/
Hi, Here in order to fetch 'Charles' you are using json path finder, which shows the path in an index based format. (data[1].firstname), May be in my next execution, this path can change, Like charles name might be moved to some other index/path. In this case how we identify, each time we can identify manually and update the Tests right? Please help.
Hi Arun, you can use regex as well in the path
@@RaghavPal Sorry, I'm not aware of regex, if possible please do a video related to that type of scenarios. Please
or please write here as example, in this case how to get the random id of the customer whos name is charles from a response body (I know my response has a customer with name charles, but I want to identify the id and set as varible for my next api request to use) something like this, how to achieve.. Please help, I googled many times but no help !
Hi Arun, to start with you can read this to know about Regex - automationstepbystep.com/2020/05/05/a-story-of-regex/
Hi Sir,
We are getting two nodes with first names as Charles and others(13:00). If I want to post the details of all available members at a time means can I use loops in the scripts to iterate?
Hi Sainath, pls check your json path, If the path is correct you should be getting a single value. Check the index position
Thanks again for your great tutorials!
Most welcome
Thank you. Very informative and helpful
Most welcome Harini
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Most welcome
Your API God Thank You So much really Really very Easy Understanding would this video
You are most welcome Vishnu
Thanks a lot Raghav,
I followed all of yours tutorial for Postman.
Really well explained and easy to understand.
I have a request, if you could make a video on:
"how to use LinkedIn, Google and Facebook APIs in our webapp for the purpose of logging in and signing up" .
Thanks Again
Hi Deepam, I will check on this
Very Informative. Thanks a lot :)
Most welcome
Very well explained Raghav
Thanks Aishwarya
Hi Raghav, thanks for your nice tutorials. The audio changed since the previous ones, and it is a bit disturbing because of some mouth sounds, but the volume is higher than on the previous, which is good!
Hi Simon, you're welcome. Thanks for you feedback. Have recorded this after some time since the last video in postman series. I will take care of audio in next video.
Boht Hard. Kaafi Saral
I hope it helped Vishal
Fantastic video, excellent explanation and demonstration. Thank you very much!
You're very welcome!
Excellent tutorial, exactly what I was looking for.
Glad it was helpful David
Hi Raghav, went through all your videos on Postman. Thanks for putting all of these videos together. Your tutorials are very well explained, detailed and simple. THANK YOU. However, i was wondering if you have any upcoming videos where you can dive into advance postman scripting. Looking forward to your reply
Hi Judy, thanks a lot for your message. I have plans to add more to Postman playlist. Will try to do it soon.
@@RaghavPal Looking forward to your new advance postman tutorials. Thankyou once again.
Relly this one helps me a lot. Keep sharing more advanced ways to handle this. Can we pick this data based on our condition?
Yes
Thank you so much. Awesome job. Please keep it up.
You're welcome Tejiri
Hi Raghav.
I have a scenario where I need to validate a tag and its value in xml response. If I am data driving the run, each case response will have the same tags with different values based on the input data pass to the script . How do I automate this ?
Hi Vinay,
You can store the value coming from data file to a variable and while validating use the variable
I have watched all your videos and I am new to API testing its very easy to understand but could you please let me know what is the purpose of fetching response data and setting to an environment variable.
This is for using the value in the next request, sometimes we need to create a chain, like the token value needs to be passed to maintain the logged in session
I have a question.
what you did is, you update username from taking get listuser.
can't we update the value to listuser that is already there ?
You take charles from get listuser and update on morpheous which is already updated one.
can't we update username charles from listuser to new name ?
i just want to update the username that is on get listuser with the new username
you can do.. this is just for demo to explain the concept of chaining..
Hi Raghav , your videos are very useful.
1. Is there any way to to pass Authorization Token to all the request in the Collection in one go?
2. I have a scenario in which API will create a pre-signed S3 url and then I have to upload an attachment in the created url. How to upload attachment in the request while running collection?
Hi Himani,
Yes, you can do that at collection level
will need to check online for helpful examples
@Raghav Wonderful explanation. Please can you explain how to filter response body based on end nodes. In your example how to get response only for id=4 or Name="Eve"?
Hi Jayaraja, you need to provide the right json path (in case of json response) or xpath (in case of xml response). I have shown some ways to get the path, like using json path finder. So for id=4 path will be x[0].data[0].id
Similarly for Eve it will be x[0].data[0].first_name
Thanks Raghav I am having issue with the export of postman. When I run these and then export and then import it then request or response are not saved. Only pass or fail status is saved. How to save the responses also to that postman export. I was running at collection level
Hi Alok, will need to check
Excellent video, help me a lot
Glad to hear it!
Thanks a lot. Pretty useful video
Glad you liked it Hari
Hello there, I have a question. I need to get the value of a specific JSON response that has several values. The response comes as an array and consists of several values.
Example: I want to get the JSON response value of the " 77 " Id number. I know I can take this value by doing this = " jsonData[1].Id. But the problem is, what if I don't know that 77 id response is situated at ?? That is the issue I have. I have a value of 77. But I don't know at which element it is situated. Could you please help me? Thanks
[
{
"Id": "76",
"CustomerName": "Sam",
},
{
"Id": "77",
"CustomerName": "John",
},
]
This can help community.postman.com/t/how-to-handle-dynamic-jsonpath/5949
great one once again sir ji
Thanks for watching
Hello Sir, I am trying to get the 0 the number UserName but it is throwing an below error-
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '0')
can help me in this.
Hi Kaustubh
The error you are getting is because the `UserName` property is undefined. This can happen if the response from the API does not contain the `UserName` property.
To fix this, you need to make sure that the response from the API contains the `UserName` property. You can do this by checking the documentation for the API.
If the response from the API does not contain the `UserName` property, you will need to modify your request to include the `UserName` property. You can do this by adding the `UserName` property to the request body.
Here is an example of a request that includes the `UserName` property:
```
{
"UserName": "John Doe"
}
```
Once you have modified your request, you should be able to get the `UserName` property without any errors.
Here is an example of how to get the `UserName` property in Postman:
1. Open the Postman app.
2. Create a new request.
3. In the URL field, enter the URL of the API.
4. In the Body tab, select the "raw" radio button.
5. In the text field, paste the following JSON:
```
{
"UserName": "John Doe"
}
```
6. Click on the "Send" button.
The response from the API should contain the `UserName` property. You can view the `UserName` property in the Response tab.
I hope this helps
thanks Raghav it was a very good series :)
You're welcome Saumitra
One question, can we use create call followed by Delete with API chaining, say i want create a user and delete the user in the next api call
Sure Madhan, you can do it.
Hi Raghav,
Is there a way where we can send the console log results via csv file or excel file .
Hi Sriteja, will have to script for that.
Wonderful explanation , great tutorial . Awesome Job brother.
Thanks for watching Sambandam
very informative videos. it will help me a lot in api testing
Happy to know this Rajan
Very informative session Raghav. Thanks
You're welcome Kavita
Thanks for your work. You helped me a lot.
Glad to hear that!
Hi Sir.. I have a doubt. I am getting a array as [ "1","2","3"] from a get api and storing it in a variable. But if i pass it to another post request it is read as ["1,2,3"] means the double quotes are removed. Can u please help me here. I need it to be passed it as I m getting. 😊
Hi Paneer, this will help community.postman.com/t/how-to-escape-double-quote-when-setting-using-variables/13505
hi raghav nice explaination, it is helped me learning postman Here
have question from this session, i did same got "responsebody" is not defined
Hi Kranthi, pls check the syntax, can compare with official documentation, your json data is in pm. So you need to retrieve your JSON data using the below code.
var jsonData = pm.response.json();
pm.test("Verify Json values", function () {
pm.expect(jsonData.success).is.to.equal(true);
});
How should we do this same for the xml responses? I am using var jsonObject = xml2Json(responseBody); to convert xml to json now what should be done further?
I have tried following;
//Converting XML to JSON
var jsonObject = xml2Json(responseBody); //converted the XML responseBody to JSONobject
responseData = JSON.parse(jsonObject); // tried to parse jsonObject and store data in responseData variable
responseValue = responseData(jsonObject['Order']['orderNumber']); // from responsedata tried to get the value
pm.collectionVariables.set("orderNumber", responseValue); // tried to store it in collection variable
Below is the error seen;
There was an error in evaluating the test script: JSONError: Unexpected token 'o' at 1:2 [object Object] ^
I will try to check and do a session
@@RaghavPal Hi Raghav, any success?
@@RaghavPal I was able to get it working if the request and response is XML as below;
//Converting responseBody from XML to JSON
var jsonObject = xml2Json(responseBody);
//Identify and Capture the field values from responsebody in a variable
let orderNumber = jsonObject[.....order xml objects]['orderNumber'];
//Putting the value of orderNumber in collectionVariable from the responseBody
pm.collectionVariables.set("orderNumber", orderNumber);
Great explaination helped alot...!!
Glad to hear that Kiran
Hi Raghav , after completing that chain connecting API . Can we import that collection in json and we can use that in terminal window. That environmental values will get remain same . Iam waiting for your reply .
Hi Vijay, you should be able to do that, and you can also download env as json file and provide in command -
newman run -e environment1.json --env-var foo=bar3
References - www.npmjs.com/package/newman#newman-options
github.com/postmanlabs/newman/issues/764
stackoverflow.com/questions/43924363/newman-postmant-specify-a-single-environment-variable-via-command-line
raghav sir - Thank you so much for you tuturials its is very much helpful for us and we all appreciate your quick response reposes for our questions it has helped us lot in our day to day activity of work.
Please can you share formate for API Test Scenario and Test cases and what all negative points we should consider in API Testing.
please can you make tutorial on MangoDb and RabbitMQ
Many thanks sir
You are most welcome Pooja, I will plan to add some sessions on this
@@RaghavPal thank you so much
Thank you. These series are great. Let me ask you a question about this session. Is it possible to do a loop using the get and update api? the fist one will get the user id (it will be nice to be able to filter some records) and the second one will update the user description or anything else.
You can do Paulo, you can also write code in JavaScript if required. I will suggest to check Request Workflows - learning.postman.com/docs/running-collections/building-workflows/
Thank you so much .Is there any link from where I can extract soap request from WSDL?
Hi Pallabi, you can use a chrome extension WIZDLER. Check this - th-cam.com/video/DR3EEhjn2OI/w-d-xo.html
At the video time of 3: 00 minutes when we are creating a GET Request for 'LIST USERS', you mention the Params tab gets automatically populated. What is the significance of the Params tab? Why / When /How is it used?
If there are any parameters in your request, you can give it here, Like in the example shown page=2, it took it automatically from the url and you can add more if required
Thank you very much! the api calls that i testing, i was trying to figure how i can use what is response body for the other 3 api calls, I watched your video,now I need to try it out!
Glad it helped!
The Json Path you used in data[1] is static. How to use the same in a dynamic way ?
Hi Saptarshi, can you give an example of scenario to understand what is needed
@@RaghavPal : When we fetch a list of users, a particular user may exist in different nodes during repeated execution as number of users may grow or shrink during the phase.
@@RaghavPal Another example is Search any entity. Entity fetched may exist in different nodes during execution phase
Okay got it, in this case you can create the json path or xpath using regular expressions for dynamic searching. examples goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/
Great course, i have been following along and learned a lot! I have a problem with this one though, when i do a PUT request it does not update the data. Even though I send 'Morpheus' data in my request body, it responds with 'Janet Weaver' data as if I just did a GET request. Why?
Hi, not sure if this is backend issue as these are dummy apis. In case all your setup, response code etc is fine. You may go to the next one pls
Hi Raghav,
I followed everything you taught here but somehow when I run the request current value of the variable is not getting updated from "abc" to what I can see in the response.
Could you please help me on this?
will need to see your request scripts
Thanks Raghav, for this session, is there anyway we can export console log to csv or to an external file to local hard drive? any help is appreciated
Hi Tej, Not sure if there is a direct way for this. This can be helpful
community.postman.com/t/get-all-console-output-to-csv/8659/8
Hello Raghav,
Can you tell me how to validate nested fields text from api response.
I have used "pm.expect(pm.response.json().data).to.have.all.keys( "column1 ", "column2", "column2A", "column2B", "column2C")"
but not able to validate nested fields such as column2A, column2B
For eg.
{
"column1 ": value1,
"column2 : column2A": value2,
"column2 : column2B": value3,
"column2 : column2C": value4,
}
My requirement : To check (through test scripts) api response must have all the column names such as column 1,column 2, column2A ,column2B,column2C
Regards, Sayali
Hi Sayali, check if this helps - stackoverflow.com/questions/55176901/how-to-verify-if-a-node-in-response-body-has-unique-value-with-postman
Thanks Raghav. Actually, my question is not about verifying the value in the response body.
My requirement : To check (through test scripts) api response must have all the column names such as column 1,column 2, column2A ,column2B,column2C
I just want to test whether all these columns are present in the api response and do not need to deal with their value validation.
Thank you very much for this helpful tutoriels. I have a problem to get value from xml response for soap api. can you please make an other video for this part?
I will plan for this Rajae
fantastic tutorial , Thank you very much Sir ,it was a great help for me
You're welcome Sandesh
Nice Explanation
Thanks for liking Praveen
Thanks...great work !!!
Glad you liked it!
What would be a real-world usage/example of chaining APIs through Postman?
Hi Polina, suppose you have a API to create a user and in the response you get a userid, Now you need to use this user id in another api. Let's say to update user. So in real-world this chaining is very much required as we do not want to do any manual intervention while running a complete scenario or use-case
@@RaghavPal So chaining APIs allows us to automate accessing response values from different APIs, correct?
Yes, as required by your use-case
But, when i am parsing the value which is encrypted (e.g. "TxnID":"1234|#$^%^^yt*(&
9438"), and when I am trying to pass this value in next request, the
of TxnID treated as next line and response is getting failed. Please help on this.
Hi Dibyendu, If there is a next line char, you will need to escape that
@@RaghavPal but this next line char is dynamic, sometime it will come and sometime not. So, whenever next line char is not coming then only i am getting correct response. But, this problem doesn't happen in other tools like jmeter. In jmeter, it passes next line char as
thats why i am getting correct response everytime.
Does anyone know how to set the request body for a request from external json in newman
Hi Vijay, you can refer the data from json and csv files and there is tutorial on that, Not sure if you can get the complete body and structure directly. Will need to check online
@@RaghavPal can you please give me your inputs
I have not tried this and could not find a good solution online. Best will be to keep the structure in postman and get the values from data file
@@RaghavPal any video where I can refer this point
Hello Raghav
I tried to chain values between APIs with SOAP in order to retrieve an ISO code from one request and pass it to another request, though without success
I've tried to reach the ISO code of a country in the response with xpath like you did here, only that you did it with JSON. and it gives me syntax error.
this is the code :
responseData = XML.parse(responseBody)
value = responseData.*:soap:Envelope/soap:Body/m:CountryISOCodeResponse/m:CountryISOCodeResult
Also was it correct to use the XML object instead of the JSON Object?
Thank you in advance
Hi Gilad, I believe the issue is with XPath. Check your xpath here -
xmltoolbox.appspot.com/xpath_generator.html
www.freeformatter.com/xpath-tester.html
Excellent. Thank you. Any future videos with text or XML non JSON? Keep up the great work.
Can check XML and JSON Beginner tutorials here - automationstepbystep.com/
Hello Raghav, Thanks a lot for your videos:) They are just superb. I have some questions on the postman automation negative scenarios api testing.
1) In single api request, can we write/test positive and negative test scenarios by writing both the test scripts ?
For eg. I have to test '200 OK' status as well as '400 bad request' status in 1 single api request for each api end point.
Will it be possible ? How to do negative testing in postman (Automation testing through test scripts) ?
2) In our project, we want to use Monitor option for automatic api testing , and there is no option to import data file with different data. Please confirm.
So in the above case if there are various api end points with various parameters in a project , how can I test the api end points with different data ?
Thanks
Hi Sayali, for the first one, you need to run your request with diff parameters, for this you can use
1. external data file
OR
2. use pre-request scripts, variables and workflows
th-cam.com/video/sZKoBQ1HpKw/w-d-xo.html
For the monitor option, I am not too sure and will have to check online
Thank you so much for your quick response.
In data file option, I am able to pass the test data only for one api request and not more than that.
I have multiple requests in my collection,so not able to pass data for all the requests in a single file.
Can you tell me how to solve this ?
I will check and see if I can create a session on this.
Thank you so much
I want to fetch incptdt from below xpatch. but I am not getting exatch path name. How do i find and update
{"backdtpremium":0,"partyid":"000000","BD":[],"incpDt":"04-Mar-2022"
Hi Piyush, will need to see the details to troubleshoot this
Hi Raghav,
It is so good , every topic explained in very clear manner .
I have one question ; when i use responsebody in test section to write script it says responsebody is not defined .
Can u please let me know what is the issue here-
ReferenceError: responsebBody is not defined
Below script user in test section-
JsonData = JSON.parse(responsebBody);
value = bodyData.data[1].first_name
console.log("value")
can u please help me here?
Hi Sudeep, here you are storing the response in variable JsonData and then using the variable bodyData. Where did you use the variable responsebBody. Pls check
Do you have any tips on how to do this on a bigger scale. I.e I want to take all subscription details from Mail Chimp and update contacts on a share point list...
Hi, the basic process remains same, but I have not tried, You should check some online examples and try
Here you are getting all the details in the Page 2 and then filtering for 'Charles'.. Can you optimize GET Request to get only that record or object from the API ?
Hi Veera, even then we will have to get the full response and then parse to get the value. I believe as of not there is no direct way
This was an amazing Tuto. Thanx for these videos
You're welcome Haider
Thanks for session. It was quite helpful. But i have another question. In this example of yours, you should run the first call manually inorder to get and pass the first_name to the second update call.
But i would like to see a tutorial in which when the second call i run, the first should get automatically executed, without anyone manually running the first call to fetch the token.
Is it possible via Postman?
Hi Dibin, for this you can set build workflows using postman.setNextRequest() learning.postman.com/docs/postman/collection-runs/building-workflows/
Useful tutorial. Just want to know how to use environment variable in assertion. I have an environment variable "name" . I want to verify if my response body contains pm.expect(pm.response.text()).to.include("name welcome");
Hi Dev,
to refer env variables use
pm.environment.get("variable_key");
Ensure to select the env before execution
Thanks boss very good explanation
You're welcome Niranjan
Great Effort Raghav, Thank you! :)
You're welcome Sam
Good Night
I profess to help myself, I am new to Postaman and I am experiencing the following problem.
I need to test an API where I need to import a CSV file and check the PATH of the API if it is correct.
Watch all your classes and the most similar to my problem and UPDATE.
But I'm not able to import the file and checking the information in the API can help me by indicating a very explanatory tutorial or telling me which class can help me.
I appreciate the help.
Hi Rodolfo, You can take some help from the Postman CSV tutorial here - th-cam.com/play/PLhW3qG5bs-L-oT0GenwPLcJAPD_SiFK3C.html
And will also need some online help to complete your task
Hi Raghav i am trying your video to extract value from response but i am getting this error message in console "TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined".Can you please help me.
Hi Rahul, try to print the value where you are doing this operation. Can also debug - th-cam.com/video/ne1RsYcgkSY/w-d-xo.html
When do I select XML or JSON(application/json) in body section?
Hi Md.Mahfuzul, it depend on the representation available for the resource (api data). ususally application/json should work for REST and xml for SOAP
Thank so much and once again I want to say you are great.
Hi Raghavl this is very uselful. Imagine another scenario in which we have more than 2 requests( lets say 5 requests.. or more)Even if we extract some value from request 1 would we be able to use it in the request number 5 within the collection right? thanks!
Yes, once you store it in global or env variables, can use it anywhere