Chaining postman requests - call postman request from another request?

Question

I have two postman requests x,y which hit endpoints in two different rest api X,Y. x will give me an authentication token which is necessary to make the y request. How do I make the request x inside request y ? That is, call x from inside y.

PS - I have already figured out how to use request x to setup environment variables (auth token) which will be picked up by y.

Answer 1

If you want to do it in one shot, you can use the pre-script option.

Pre-script are triggered before the request. So if you make a request and set the token in an environnement variable, the next call can use the token. You should check that page. It seems outdated, you should replace pm by postman.

You might also want to add a pre script request to your collection. This way, every request of that collection will be precede by a request to the authentification route for exemple.

Answer 2

Have a look at this: https://blog.postman.com/conditional-workflows-in-postman/, if you want to call a specific request from within a request, the postman.setNextRequest() function will do the job.

Alexandre