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domechomsky
domechomsky

Reputation: 413

Postman path parameter following = in the request url

One of the requests for the tool I've been asked to update is the delete request which is structured as follows:

http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/list_id=76218cb5fc45605cd632c26f5c5568ac/del

where the list ID will be different every time you send a request.

In order to simplify usage for end users, I want to be able to have them enter everything they need as parameters or headers in the postman GUI as they do for the other requests, rather than modifying the request URL, so I tried something like this:

http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/list_id=:list_id/del

but if the : is preceded by an equals sign, the postman parameters tab no longer shows list_id as a path parameter.

Is there a way to make this work using a path parameter? Or is the best solution to explain to users that for the delete request, they need to paste the list_id obtained from the other requests into the request URL?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8478

Answers (3)

Rob
Rob

Reputation: 361

Late to the party so you probably already solved it. But if anyone else is looking for something similar here is what I did. If you add just add ":id" in the URL, Postman adds a section called Path Variables underneath Query Params. Screenshot of postman

Upvotes: 7

PDHide
PDHide

Reputation: 19949

http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/list_id={{list_id}}/del?list_id=1

Now users can pass the list id as query parameter.

In pre-request:

  pm.environment.set("list_id",pm.request.url.getQueryString("list_id").split("=")[1])
  pm.request.removeQueryParams("list_id")

this will update the list_id varaible and remove the query parameter and send the request in the format you want

Upvotes: 2

Filip Culig
Filip Culig

Reputation: 125

If you want to achieve what you are saying then there is no solution for your problem.

But I would suggest you change your URL. As Divyang said, your URL should be like http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/{{list_id}}/del or http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/del?list_id=123 and then you can use params tab assign values to list_id.

But my best suggestion would be to use RESTful design: http://{{host_ip}}:{{port}}/lists/123123 and make a DELETE request to that URL.

Upvotes: 0

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