Reusing requests and scripts
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🔁 Get Started Here
The aim of this collection is to demonstrate how a request or a script from a collection can be reused/referenced in a different collection.
This idea can also be extended to create a repository of scripts and reuse them across different collections.
NOTE: The only caveat with this approach is that you will have to make an extra API call to fetch that request/script.
🔖 How to use this template
- Add your [API Key] in the Variables tab of the collection. You can access your API key here.
- Add the following script as part of the pre-request or test script based on your use case.
eval(pm.variables.get("executeReferencedRequest"));
executeReferencedRequest({
collectionUId: "<COLLECTION_UID>",
requestUId: "<REQUEST_UID>", // can also use requestName instead
apiKey: pm.variables.get("apiKey")
}, () => {
eval(pm.variables.get("referencedPreRequestScript"));
pm.request.update(pm.variables.get("referencedRequest"));
eval(pm.variables.get("referencedTestScript"));
});
Here collectionUId is the UID of the collection from which you want to reference the request and requestUId is the UID of the request that you want to reuse/reference. These can be copied from the right sidebar by clicking on ⓘ of a collection or a request respectively.
executeReferencedRequest here will set three local variables which are:
referencedPreRequestScript- Contains the pre-request script of the referenced request.referencedTestScript- Contains the test script of the referenced request.referencedRequest- Contains the actual referenced request.
These can then be used accordingly in your request. This collection contains example for reuesing, request, pre-request script and test script.
ℹ️ Resources
Please refer to this Gist on Github