Environment switching in Postman - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to select the active environment in Postman.

Postman

pm.environment.set('[1]', 'production');

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Aenv

BcurrentEnv

CactiveEnvironment

DenvironmentName

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a variable name that does not exist in Postman scripts.

Confusing environment variables with environment names.

In Postman scripts, activeEnvironment is not a standard variable. To set an environment variable, you provide the variable name as a string. The code as given is incorrect because environmentName is not a variable you can set directly. Instead, you set environment variables by their names. This question is ambiguous because Postman does not have a built-in variable called environmentName that you can set. The correct approach is to set a variable by its name, e.g., pm.environment.set('env', 'production');

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to get the value of a variable from the current environment.

Postman

let apiUrl = pm.environment.get('[1]');

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AapiUrl

BbaseUrl

Curl

Dendpoint

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a variable name that is not defined in the environment.

Confusing variable names with environment names.

The variable apiUrl is commonly used to store the API base URL in the environment.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to switch environment variables correctly.

Postman

pm.environment.[1]('token', '12345');

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Aget

Bclear

Cunset

Dset

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using get instead of set to assign values.

Using unset or clear which remove variables.

To assign a new value to an environment variable, use pm.environment.set.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to correctly check if the current environment is 'staging' and set a variable.

Postman

if (pm.environment.get('[1]') === '[2]') {
  pm.environment.set('status', 'testing');
}

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AenvironmentName

BcurrentEnv

Cstaging

Dproduction

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong variable names for environment name.

Mixing up environment names in the comparison.

Use environmentName to get the current environment's name and compare it to 'staging'.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to create a test that verifies the environment variable 'userId' exists and is not empty.

Postman

pm.test('User ID exists', function() {
  let userId = pm.environment.get('[1]');
  pm.expect(userId).to.[2].not.[3];
});

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AuserId

Bbe

Cnull

Dundefined

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong variable names.

Using incorrect assertion syntax.

Checking for undefined instead of null.

The test gets the userId variable, then expects it to be not null, ensuring it exists.