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Garry_Gearhart
4 years ago

Postman API variable use

Has anyone successfully used variables with POST calls in Postman? I'm successful with basic tests creating groups and devices (no vars) but once variables are introduced in the place of values in ...
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Garry_Gearhart
4 years ago

This is the raw JSON format body in the request 

{
    "name": "{{groupName}}"
}

The postmaster console when I send shows this as the request body: 

{
    "name": "Huzzah"
}

But the response body returns: 

{"errorMessage":"Authentication failed","errorCode":1401,"errorDetail":null}

 

If I change the raw JSON format body back to a string 

{
    "name": "Huzzah"
}

then it sends successfully and makes the group. No other changes are required in Postmaster. So if I trust Postmaster's console, the request outbound looks correct and identical with both requests.