PM+ Utility

Productivity tools for those who worked on postman collections.

This tool is designed to convert existing JSON (collection) files to YAML format, with a little restructuring of the schema.

How To Use

Install via npm i -g pm-plus

Then go to the directory with postman collections and then type pm+ -c '*.json'

To run both json and yaml use: pm+ -r "*.{json,yaml}"

Or for development mode, git clone this repo and then run npm i && npm link

The end result is to have maintainable code which is easy to review and edit, without the need for the Postman App.

name: Sample Postman Collection
description: A sample collection to demonstrate collections as a set of related requests
ver: 1.0.0
steps:
  - A simple GET request:
      GET: 'https://postman-echo.com/get?source=newman-sample-github-collection'
      headers: {}
      body: {}
      test: |-
        pm.test('expect response be 200', function () {
            pm.response.to.be.ok
        })
        pm.test('expect response json contain args', function () {
            pm.expect(pm.response.json().args).to.have.property('source')
              .and.equal('newman-sample-github-collection')
        })

instead of JSON

{
  "info": {
    "name": "Sample Postman Collection",
    "schema": "https://schema.getpostman.com/json/collection/v2.0.0/collection.json"
  },
  "item": [
    {
      "name": "A simple GET request",
      "event": [
        {
          "listen": "test",
          "script": {
            "exec": [
              "pm.test('expect response be 200', function () {",
              "    pm.response.to.be.ok",
              "})",
              "pm.test('expect response json contain args', function () {",
              "    pm.expect(pm.response.json().args).to.have.property('source')",
              "      .and.equal('newman-sample-github-collection')",
              "})"
            ],
            "type": "text/javascript"
          }
        }
      ],
      "request": {
        "header": [],
        "body": {},
        "method": "GET",
        "url": {
          "raw": "https://postman-echo.com/get?source=newman-sample-github-collection",
          "host": [
            "https:"
          ],
          "path": [
            "",
            "postman-echo.com",
            "get?source=newman-sample-github-collection"
          ]
        }
      }
    },...

Functionalities

• pm+ --convert pattern.(json|yaml) convert between JSON and YAML format
• pm+ --run pattern.(json|yaml) [-u URL] run file in newman, optionally providing URL as domain variable
• pm+ < curl.txt convert from curl command to YAML

Also included some handy macros: set, clear, include for the YAML file.

List the steps in a test file pm+ -l file

Run specific steps, not all steps in a file pm+ -r file -s=[1,2,3]

Variables

set() step

  - set(variable=value)

clear() step - to clear the variable set earlier

  - clear()  # clears all
  - clear(v1, v2) # only clear v1 and v2

External Test Files

include() steps from another test file

steps:
  - include(file[,step,step])  # no need .yaml or .json file extension
    # by index, starts with step 1
    # Name of step

The include files also is recursive, meaning that the included file may also contain its own include() steps.

The include function requires the filename, and path is relative to the test file.

Examples:

steps:
  - include(shared/login)
    # by index, starts with step 1
    # Name of step

Shared Scripts

Tired of writing the same file and postman not allowing to require external files?

We have also added include: directive support to import scripts. Note that this is not the same as the include() test files.

steps:
  - Login as Admin:
      POST: '{{domain}}/api/user/login'
      headers:
        Content-Type: application/json
      include:
        - path/file1.js
        - path/file2.js
      prerequest: ...

The included files must be javascript files which will be added to the prerequest and test scripts.

Using as Module

import { convert, run } from 'pm-plus'

convert('*.json').then(...)

run('*.json', { url: 'https://...', exclude: 'string | regex' }).then(...)

• exclude (optional): to filter files from the glob pattern based on string (contains) or regex
• url (optional): behaves the same as in command line

Roadmap

• add pmconf for default URL

License

MIT