Assign value to variable in Postman

Question

I'm trying to write a postman collection test and I'm struck at a point where I need to assign a value to global variable and use it in another api call.

Here it goes: The api response is like this:

{
    "status": "success",
    "code": 200,
    "data": {
        "expires_time": 10800,
        "authentication_token": "access-token",
        "refresh_token": "refresh-token"
    }
}

The test I'm writing is something like this:

tests["Status code is 200"] = responseCode.code === 200;

var jsonData = JSON.parse(responseBody);
postman.setEnvironmentVariable("Authorization", jsonData.data.authentication_token);

Thoughts?

Answer 1

You are saying that you need to assign global variable while your code is trying to assign environment variable, which is different.

Assigning global variable looks like following:

postman.setGlobalVariable("variable_key", "variable_value");

Make sure to create global variable with empty value in the Postman UI first, and than you will be able to assign value to it using above piece of code.