Postman: How to check the data type of each value in a response

Question

How do I check that the data type of each value in an API response is NOT an integer?

For example, if my API returns this:

 "teamPermissions": [
    "Edit",
    "Administrator",
    "ReadOnly",
    etc
    ]

I need a Postman test to make sure that an integer is never returned in the teamPermission array.

Here's what I started but need assistance:

var jsonData = JSON.parse(responseBody);
tests["Team Permissions Do Not Contain Integers"] = typeof(jsonData.teamPermissions) !== "number"

This passes because teamPermissions is an object but how do I check each value of the object is not an integer?

Answer 1

This should do the check for you:

pm.test('Not contain numbers', () => {
    var jsonData = pm.response.json()
    for (i = 0; i < jsonData.teamPermissions.length; i++) {
        pm.expect(jsonData.teamPermissions[i]).to.not.be.a('number')
    }
})

Here's what the check will do if a number is part of the array, I've logged out the types so you can see what it's checking against.

Another alternative is to use Lodash, it's a build-in module for the Postman native app. This code will run the same check as the one above:

pm.test('Not contain numbers', () => {
    _.each(pm.response.json().teamPermissions, (arrItem) => {
        pm.expect(arrItem).to.not.be.a('number')
    })
})