Is it possible to write back to data file in postman?

Question

While working with postman, data.someVariable returns data from within a csv file that can also be used as {{someVariable}} in uri/json.

This gives us the data for that variable from that row/iteration.

Is there a mechanism to write back to the data file by doing something like postman.setData('responseCode') = responseCode.

This would be really helpful to store response code in the data file and to record call wise details in same format as the input within csv.

Answer 1

The only solution I figured out is

• to populate json objects in the environment with information about the data file name and structure/values of information to be added
• to create a separate web service (maybe in node.js) that exposes an http call to write to a file and takes in as parameter a json input as the one created in the environment as mentioned above and writes that to a file / original data file (or a copy of it) in the desired format
• to call the above mentioned web service call at the end of each run or desired rest call execution to generate step wise information/debug report