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Nam G VU
Nam G VU

Reputation: 35434

In Postman, how to choose a specific example to show as endpoint response in mock server?

In brief

In Postman, at mock server, and at a specific request with multiple saved example, how to pick up an example in the middle of the example list instead of the first one?

Full details

Let's say we have an api endpoint GET /users and it has three examples saved e1, e2, e3 - listed in that order ie e1 on top in the example list.

And we create the mock server, called M, for the collection in Postman.

Currently when calling this endpoint thru this mock server M, we will get mocked response as e1.

My question is how can we specify e2 instead as mocked value?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1521

Answers (1)

Pranaya Tomar
Pranaya Tomar

Reputation: 318

You can do this in 3 different ways, all documented here - https://learning.postman.com/docs/designing-and-developing-your-api/mocking-data/mock-with-api/

TLDR; you can send one of the following 3 headers along with your request:

  1. x-mock-response-code, if each of the three example responses has a different response code, you can specify the desired response code as the value of this header.
  2. x-mock-response-name, you can specify the name of the desired example.
  3. x-mock-response-id, you can specify the uid of the desired example (<user-id>-<response-id>)

Upvotes: 2

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