Reusing a Request
Number of APIs: 1
Overview
The aim of this collection is to demonstrate how a request 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.
The only disclaimer here is that you will have to make an extra API call to fetch that request/script.
Usage
- Add the script defined in the implementations section as an environment variable against the key
executeReferencedRequest. - Add your API Key as part of the script.
- Add the following script as part of pre-request or test script, according to your use-case.
eval(pm.variables.get("executeReferencedRequest"));
executeReferencedRequest({
collectionUUID: "<COLLECTION_UUID>",
requestName: "<REQUEST_NAME>"
}, () => {
eval(pm.variables.get("referencedPreRequestScript"));
pm.request.update(pm.variables.get("referencedRequest"));
eval(pm.variables.get("referencedTestScript"));
});
Here <COLLECTION_UUID> is the UUID of the collection from which you want to reference the request and <REQUEST_NAME> is the name of the request that you want to reuse/reference.
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.
Script Implementation
Please refer to this Gist on Github