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How to store data in an array that is stored in a variable?

Following is my problem:
I am testing a system now, that has multiple ID's in every request. There are 2 ID's I want to store in an array and let them run again a response later.
Following is the Body I recieve
{
"id" = 1234;
"Name" = "Meier"
}
So, I store the ID normally with
var body = JSON.parse(responseBody);
postman.setEnvironmentVariable("ID", body.id);
with that I can store 1 ID in the variable, but can't put a second one in it. For that I would have to duplicate the request, set a second variable, change code everytime the needed cases are changed.
What I want to know now is: How can I store multiple ID's in a Environment Variable to compare them with a response at the end of the collection?

I'm not entirely familiar with postman, but if I'm understanding correctly and you want to store up the Id's from the response then you could use something like -
var body = JSON.parse(responseBody);
var storedIds = postman.getEnvironmentVariable("ID");
if(storedIds) {
storedIds.push(body.id)
} else {
storedIds = [body.id]
}
postman.setEnvironmentVariable("ID", storedIds);
Edit
From my own googling, it appears you cannot store arrays in environment variables in postman. Therefore you could try doing something like this -
var body = JSON.parse(responseBody);
var storedIds = postman.getEnvironmentVariable("ID");
if (storedIds) {
storedIds = storedIds.concat(',' + body.id)
} else {
storedIds = body.id
}
postman.setEnvironmentVariable("ID", storedIds);
Then when you want to read it back out to loop over it or whatever you want to do you can use
var idsArray = postman.getEnvironmentVariable("ID").split(',')
which will split the string up to give you an array.

How to get to request parameters in Postman?

I'm writing tests for Postman which in general works pretty easily. However, I now want to access some of the data of the request, a query parameter to be exact.
You can access the request URL through the "request.url" object which returns a String. Is there an easy way in Postman to parse this URL string to access the query parameter(s)?

The pm.request.url.query.all() array holds all query params as objects.
To get the parameters as a dictionary you can use:
var query = {};
pm.request.url.query.all().forEach((param) => { query[param.key] = param.value});

I have been looking to access the request params for writing tests (in POSTMAN). I ended up parsing the request.url which is available in POSTMAN.
const paramsString = request.url.split('?')[1];
const eachParamArray = paramsString.split('&');
let params = {};
eachParamArray.forEach((param) => {
const key = param.split('=')[0];
const value = param.split('=')[1];
Object.assign(params, {[key]: value});
});
console.log(params); // this is object with request params as key value pairs
edit: Added Github Gist

If you want to extract the query string in URL encoded format without parsing it. Here is how to do it:
pm.request.url.getQueryString() // example output: foo=1&bar=2&baz=3

pm.request.url.query returns PropertyList of QueryParam objects. You can get one parameter pm.request.url.query.get() or all pm.request.url.query.all() for example. See PropertyList methods.

It's pretty simple - to access YOUR_PARAM value use
pm.request.url.query.toObject().YOUR_PARAM

Below one for postman 8.7 & up
var ref = pm.request.url.query.get('your-param-name');

I don't think there's any out of box property available in Postman request object for query parameter(s).
Currently four properties are associated with 'Request' object:
data {object} - this is a dictionary of form data for the request. (request.data[“key”]==”value”) headers {object} - this is a dictionary of headers for the request (request.headers[“key”]==”value”) method {string} - GET/POST/PUT etc.
url {string} - the url for the request.
Source: https://www.getpostman.com/docs/sandbox

Bit late to the party here, but I've been using the following to get an array of url query params, looping over them and building a key/value pair with those that are
// the message is made up of the order/filter etc params
// params need to be put into alphabetical order
var current_message = '';
var query_params = postman.__execution.request.url.query;
var struct_params = {};
// make a simple struct of key/value pairs
query_params.each(function(param){
// check if the key is not disabled
if( !param.disabled ) {
struct_params[ param.key ] = param.value;
}
});
so if my url is example.com then the array is empty and the structure has nothing, {}
if the url is example.com?foo=bar then the array contains
{
description: {},
disabled:false
key:"foo"
value:"bar"
}
and my structure ends up being { foo: 'bar' }
Toggling the checkbox next to the property updates the disabled property:

have a look in the console doing :
console.log(request);
it'll show you all you can get from request. Then you shall access the different parameters using request., ie. request.name if you want the test name.
If you want a particular element in the url, I'm afraid you'll have to use some coding to obtain it (sorry I'm a beginner in javascript)
Hope this helps
Alexandre

Older post, but I've gotten this to work:
For some reason the debugger sees pm.request.url.query as an array with the items you want, but as soon as you try to get an item from it, its always null. I.e. pm.request.url.query[0] (or .get(0)) will return null, despite the debugger showing it has something at 0.
I have no idea why, but for some reason, it is not at index 0, despite the debugger claiming it is. Instead, you need to filter the query first. Such as this:
var getParamFromQuery = function (key)
{
var x = pm.request.url.query;
var newArr = x.filter(function(item){
return item != null && item.key == key;
});
return newArr[0];
};
var getValueFromQuery = function (key)
{
return getParamFromQuery(key).value;
};
var paxid = getValueFromQuery("paxid");
getParamFromQuery returns the parameter with the fields for key, value and disabled. getValueFromQuery returns just the value.

Parsing a JSON object with Javascript, just won't work

I'm using this code to get a JSON file stored in the same folder.
var schedtotal = 0;
var requestURL11 = 'schedtotal.json';
var request11 = new XMLHttpRequest();
request11.open('GET', requestURL11);
request11.responseType = 'json';
request11.send();
request11.onload = function() {
window.superHeroes11 = request11.response;
populateHeader11(superHeroes11);
}
function populateHeader11(jsonObj) {
window.schedtotal = jsonObj.total;
console.log("populateHeader function has activated");
console.log(jsonObj);
}
The file looks like this:
{"total": 3}
It's valid JSON. I'm trying to extract the value of total using the same exact method that I've used successfully for all the other JSON parsings in the rest of the file (which I have not included here).
When populateHeader11 is called, it doesn't change schedtotal to equal total. It remains at its original setting of 0. The console log returns from the function as having activated and also returns the JSON file so I know it can access it at least.
I've tried changing .jsonObj.total to .jsonObj['total'] and it didn't change anything.
Previous times I've screwed around with this, it has sometimes returned an error saying it can't get 'total' from null. Now it just doesn't return anything in its current state. What is going on?

You need to parse the JSON string into an object before you try and access the total field.
var jsonString = "{\"total\": 3}";
var jsonObj = JSON.parse(jsonString);
console.log(jsonObj.total);

Looking for general feedback on a URL-parsing script of mine (Javascript)

I'm fairly new to Javascript, and assembled the following (part is from an example online, rest is by me):
This works reliably, I'm just wondering how many best-practices I'm violating. If someone is nice enough to provide general feedback about the latter part of this script, that would be appreciated.
The two included functions are to (1) capture the incoming website visitor's referral data on a page, including URL query strings for analytics, and store it to a cookie. (2) When the visitor completes a form, the script will read the cookie's URL value, parse this URL into segments, and write the segment data to pre-existing hidden inputs on a form.
Example URL this would capture and parse: http://example.com/page?utm_source=google&utm_medium=abc&utm_campaign=name1&utm_adgroup=name2&utm_kw=example1&kw=example2&mt=a&mkwid=xyz&pcrid=1234
function storeRef() { //this function stores document.referrer to a cookie if the cookie is not already present
var isnew = readCookie('cookiename'); //set var via read-cookie function's output
if (isnew == null) {
var loc=document.referrer;
createCookie('cookiename',loc,0,'example.com'); //create cookie via function with name, value, days, domain
}
}
function printQuery() { //function to parse cookie value into segments
var ref=readCookie('cookiename'); //write cookie value to variable
var refElement = ref.split(/[?&]/); //create array with variable data, separated by & or ?. This is for domain info primarily.
var queryString = {}; //From http://stevenbenner.com/2010/03/javascript-regex-trick-parse-a-query-string-into-an-object/
ref.replace(
new RegExp("([^?=&]+)(=([^&]*))?", "g"),
function($0, $1, $2, $3) { queryString[$1] = $3; }
);
//write segments to form field names below.
document.getElementsByName('example1')[0].value = refElement[0]; //exampleX is a form hidden input's name. I can not use getElementById here.
//need to be able to manually define these, which is why they aren't in a loop, though I'm not sure how to loop an array referenced in this way
document.getElementsByName('example2')[0].value = queryString['utm_source'];
document.getElementsByName('example3')[0].value = queryString['utm_medium'];
document.getElementsByName('example4')[0].value = queryString['utm_term'];
document.getElementsByName('example5')[0].value = queryString['utm_content'];
document.getElementsByName('example6')[0].value = queryString['utm_campaign'];
document.getElementsByName('example7')[0].value = queryString['utm_adgroup'];
document.getElementsByName('example8')[0].value = queryString['utm_kw'];
document.getElementsByName('example9')[0].value = queryString['kw'];
document.getElementsByName('example10')[0].value = queryString['mt'];
document.getElementsByName('example11')[0].value = queryString['mkwid'];
document.getElementsByName('example12')[0].value = queryString['pcrid'];
}
Thank you!

why would you need to use a cookie to store the data for that, if unless you wanna keep track of the visitors visiting to your site?

Passing an id value into a URL

My company hosts user created surveys on our server. When they are uploaded, they are given a key number as an identifier. I am trying to create a facebook app that people can post a simple survey to and distribute. I can set the canvas URL to the default URL of our server, but I need to pass that key to the query string at the end of the app URL.
<input type="hidden" id="SurveyKey" name="SurveyKey" value="130633791306">
so, the end link needs to be apps.facebook.com/myappname/130633791306
or apps.facebook.com/myappname/SurveyKey value
I am very new to JavaScript and didn't know if there was some get function that could just pull that from the source code and pass it into a new URL. I'm sure this is something easy, but as I am not sure how to word my question, my search result is coming up with a lot of unrelated material.
The URLs for our surveys look like this:
http://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=130633791306
where k is a unique value for every survey. I want to be able to pull that value from the source code and pass it into the URL of my facebook app (which has the canvas URL set as our URL). So, it would look like apps.facebook.com/appname/k=VALUE_HERE

To get the query string in JavaScript you could use a code snipet like this:
function querySt(ji) {
hu = window.location.search.substring(1);
gy = hu.split("&");
for (i=0;i<gy.length;i++) {
ft = gy[i].split("=");
if (ft[0] == ji) {
return ft[1];
}
}
}
Then you just define a variable to store the key, ie
var surveyKey = querySt("k");
Now you can use the surveyKey anywhere, so for example:
var url = "http://apps.facebook.com/appname/k=" + surveyKey;
http://ilovethecode.com/Javascript/Javascript-Tutorials-How_To-Easy/Get_Query_String_Using_Javascript.shtml