Using environment variables in POST payload

Question

Can I use environment variables set in a previous test in the payload I am posting?

eg.

POST /list { "some_key": environment.saved_value }

moorecats · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-31 03:15:46Z

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Yes, you can do that. You send it up like this

{ "some_key" : "{{environment_variable_name}}" }

So, if in your previous test you had set it with something like

postman.setEnvironmentVariable("id","some_value")

You can use it in your POST with

{ "some_key" : "{{id}}" }

Hopefully, that answers your question

answered Dec 31, 2014 at 3:15

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3 Comments

MikeW Over a year ago

this does not seem to work with boolean values, I tried { "val" : "{{myval}}" } where myval in the environmnent is true yet when the put hits the server it comes through as false

MikeW Over a year ago

also this does not work when submitting a request through newman

MikeW Over a year ago

it seems it does not work with string types through newman, but numeric types are fine

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