![]() ![]() Made for the web and widely in use: Node.js is a software platform for developing server-side network services.The main reason we have chosen Node.js over PHP is related to the following artifacts: JSON Web Token for access token management.TypeORM as object relational mapping layer.Swagger UI for visualizing and interacting with the API’s resources.Lerna as a tool for multi package and multi repository management.Our whole Node.js backend stack consists of the following tools: Writing and maintaining a Postman collection takes some work, but the resulting documentation site, interactivity and API testing tools are well worth it. These required a lot of effort to customize. We now have #QA around all the APIs in public docs to make sure they are always correctĪlong the way we tried other techniques for documenting APIs like ReadMe.io or Swagger UI. You can automate Postman with “test scripts” and have it periodically run a collection scripts as “monitors”. The result is a great looking web page with all the API calls, docs and sample requests and responses in one place. This turns Postman from a personal #API utility to full-blown public interactive API documentation. ![]() You can publish a collection and easily share it with a URL. Then you can add Markdown content to the entire collection, a folder of related methods, and/or every API method to explain how the APIs work. This makes it possible to use Postman for one-off API tasks instead of writing code. This allows you to parameterize things like username, password and workspace_name so a user can fill their own values in before making an API call. You can generalize a collection with “collection variables”. Over time you can build up a set of requests and organize them into a “Postman Collection”. You download the desktop app, and build API requests by URL and payload. Postman is an “API development environment”. For the API reference doc we are using Postman. A public API is only as good as its #documentation. This lets you replace your session cookies with the session ids on the url, effectively allowing you to take over someone elses session, in this case telling Postman to make requests on your behalf using your authenticated session cookies.We just launched the Segment Config API (try it out for yourself here) - a set of public REST APIs that enable you to manage your Segment configuration. Here are some examples using the example definition below:ĭefaultLabelFmt = new List that can be copied into Postman. Everything else are just added string literals including the + character which is just a url-encoded version of the space character. The label param accepts a collection of string tokens that controls how the label is formatted.The type and route are special tokens that get replaced by the Request DTO name and Route respectively. The screenshot above shows an example of importing the same service with the different label styles below: The label for each operation can be further customized using the ?label query string param whose preferred style which can vary depending on the granularity and naming of your Request DTO's, and whether they have custom routes defined on them. The operations returned also favour custom user-defined routes, when none exists it will fallback to use the pre-defined routes. Just like the Open API Support the list of operations returned respects the Restriction Attributes and only shows the operations each user is allowed to see. Once imported it will populate a list of available operations that can be selected and easily called from within the Postman UI. ![]() This will open up the import dialog, where you can paste the metadata url and click Import: Once enabled, a link with appear in your metadata page:īy default the link to the Postman JSON metadata collection is at /postman, this url can be imported into postman by clicking on import collections:
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