Test web service from postman : Elgg.org

Test web service from postman

By Hermand Pessek 192 days ago

Hi,
I am trying to test sample web service provided by native web_services plugin from postnam but I am getting some errors.

Here is the behavior

web_service : auth.gettoken
callback : AuthGetToken::class
Method : POST
params : 'username' and 'password'

1- Using Postman Params

When using Postman Params, everything works as expected

2- Using Postman Body (raw json)

When posting using raw json as body I got the following error message
Here is the Json I am sending

{

"username": "newuser",

"password": "securepassword123"

}

Here is the error I got

{"status":-1,"message":"Missing parameter username in method auth.gettoken"}

- Nikolai Shcherbin@rivervanrain
Nikolai Shcherbin 192 days ago
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First, you need to get auth_token using auth.gettoken method and pass it to your service to perform the task.
That's, your service should accept the token and return it to Elgg with a new task.
Perhaps more details about what you're doing will help clarify the situation better.
- Hermand Pessek@rheman
Hermand Pessek 192 days ago
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There is no need to add auth_token because I set the following two parameters to false
'require_api_auth' => false, 'require_user_auth' => false,
"I would like to test the service by sending a JSON payload via a POST request using Postman."
- Jerome Bakker@jeabakker
Jerome Bakker 190 days ago
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Sending the requests to Elgg you should not send JSON.
In Postman set the POST body to x-www-form-urlencoded and the params as the api call requires.
In response you'll get a JSON, but you can't do that in the request.