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POSTMAN Complete Reference Guide For API Testing

This document discusses using the POSTMAN API testing tool. It provides instructions on how to create a request in POSTMAN, including adding API keys and parameters. Specific examples are given for making requests to the New York Times and Trello APIs.

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POSTMAN Complete Reference Guide For API Testing

This document discusses using the POSTMAN API testing tool. It provides instructions on how to create a request in POSTMAN, including adding API keys and parameters. Specific examples are given for making requests to the New York Times and Trello APIs.

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What is JSON?

It is a data format and primarily used to transport data between a server and web application. It
stands for JavaScript Object Notation.

POSTMAN mainly devided into 4 parts.

1. Request Part
2. Response Part
3.

Request Part:

The below image contains a dropdown, we can use these field values as Request Method.

Ex: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, COPY, etc…


How to Create a Request in POSTMAN?

API Key: Vu81M0tP236NKkD2guDrE7awQEvVkenA 

Secret: Bzb0hol5KAASPRFK

Example:

Step1: Create a Request and enter the Endpoint URL

https://api.nytimes.com/svc/books/v3/lists.json

Submit the request.


Response:
{
    "fault": {
        "faultstring": "Failed to resolve API Key variable request.queryparam.api-
key",
        "detail": {
            "errorcode": "steps.oauth.v2.FailedToResolveAPIKey"
        }
    }
}

What is the status code that you get back?

The status code should be 401(unauthorized) and indicates that you are not authorised
to access this resource.

Step2: According to the error message you have received, the API is expecting your
API key as a query parameter. The error that you see in the response body also
indicates that is wrong.

Go ahead and create a new query parameter called api-key and put the API key you
have received in the Value field. 

Now resubmit the request.

Q: What status code do you get now?

A: You should get a 400 - Bad request status code now.

Step3: Try adding a GET query parameter called list with any value you want.

Resubmit the request. 

What status code do you see now?

The response will be empty but the status code will be 200, because you have provided
all required parameters.

9.12 test scenario’s


TRELLO:
api-key: 081823dbac012ad17652bd13c6b4e24a

OAuth: a244a87b624b3f600d7fa1bfbf18b6bfaa8bf71c05ac072859d93c29019a4e66

Token: 6f103da0e4614f0bc9bfc88e8df6dca060af6afcd908f49dbe56ac887d6ce684

New Board ID:   "id": "5f3b64e4b2b339475ab3b41d",

{
    "id": "5f3cc453bcd80f04df28c7cc",
    "name": "New Testing Board",
    "desc": "",
    "descData": null,
    "closed": false,
    "idOrganization": null,
    "idEnterprise": null,
    "pinned": false,
    "url": "https://trello.com/b/GjsE4h4J/new-testing-board",
    "shortUrl": "https://trello.com/b/GjsE4h4J",
    "prefs": {
        "permissionLevel": "private",
        "hideVotes": false,
        "voting": "disabled",
        "comments": "members",
        "invitations": "members",
        "selfJoin": true,
        "cardCovers": true,
        "isTemplate": false,
        "cardAging": "regular",
        "calendarFeedEnabled": false,
        "background": "blue",
        "backgroundImage": null,
        "backgroundImageScaled": null,
        "backgroundTile": false,
        "backgroundBrightness": "dark",
        "backgroundColor": "#0079BF",
        "backgroundBottomColor": "#0079BF",
        "backgroundTopColor": "#0079BF",
        "canBePublic": true,
        "canBeEnterprise": true,
        "canBeOrg": true,
        "canBePrivate": true,
        "canInvite": true
    },
    "labelNames": {
        "green": "",
        "yellow": "",
        "orange": "",
        "red": "",
        "purple": "",
        "blue": "",
        "sky": "",
        "lime": "",
        "pink": "",
        "black": ""
    },
    "limits": {}
}

Get Membership of a Board:

https://api.trello.com/1/boards/:id/memberships?key={{key}}&token={{token}}

key:{{key}}

token:{{token}}

//id:5f3cc453bcd80f04df28c7cc

{
    "id": "5f3cf04a9c066a40f2c27c66",
    "name": "Hari Testing",
    "desc": "",
    "descData": null,
    "closed": false,
    "idOrganization": null,
    "idEnterprise": null,
    "pinned": false,
    "url": "https://trello.com/b/wytS4uJA/hari-testing",
    "shortUrl": "https://trello.com/b/wytS4uJA",
    "prefs": {
        "permissionLevel": "private",
        "hideVotes": false,
        "voting": "disabled",
        "comments": "members",
        "invitations": "members",
        "selfJoin": true,
        "cardCovers": true,
        "isTemplate": false,
        "cardAging": "regular",
        "calendarFeedEnabled": false,
        "background": "blue",
        "backgroundImage": null,
        "backgroundImageScaled": null,
        "backgroundTile": false,
        "backgroundBrightness": "dark",
        "backgroundColor": "#0079BF",
        "backgroundBottomColor": "#0079BF",
        "backgroundTopColor": "#0079BF",
        "canBePublic": true,
        "canBeEnterprise": true,
        "canBeOrg": true,
        "canBePrivate": true,
        "canInvite": true
    },
    "labelNames": {
        "green": "",
        "yellow": "",
        "orange": "",
        "red": "",
        "purple": "",
        "blue": "",
        "sky": "",
        "lime": "",
        "pink": "",
        "black": ""
    }
}

 To get Random Value and assign to input script:


ParseInt(Math.randam() * 1000)

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