Importing and exporting collections in Postman - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to import a Postman collection from a JSON file.

Postman

pm.collection.import([1]);

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AfilePath

BexportedCollection

CcollectionData

DjsonFile

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the collection data object instead of the file path.

Passing an undefined variable.

The import method requires the file path of the collection JSON to import it.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to export the current Postman collection as a JSON object.

Postman

const exported = pm.collection.[1]();

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Asave

BtoJSON

Cexport

Ddownload

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using a method that saves or downloads instead of converting to JSON.

Calling a non-existent method.

The toJSON() method converts the collection to a JSON object for export.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly export a collection to a file.

Postman

pm.collection.export([1]);

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Acallback

BcollectionName

CfilePath

Doptions

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Passing a file path string instead of a callback function.

Omitting the callback argument.

The export method requires a callback function to handle the exported data.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to import a collection and then log its name.

Postman

pm.collection.import([1]).then(collection => {
  console.log(collection.[2]);
});

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AfilePath

Bid

Cname

DjsonData

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using JSON data instead of file path for import.

Logging the collection id instead of the name.

First, import the collection using the file path, then access its name property to log it.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to export a collection, convert it to a string, and save it to a file.

Postman

pm.collection.[1](collection => {
  const jsonString = JSON.[2](collection);
  saveToFile(jsonString, [3]);
});

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Aexport

Bstringify

C'collection.json'

DtoJSON

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using toJSON instead of stringify.

Not providing a filename string for saving.

Use export to get the collection, JSON.stringify to convert it to a string, and provide the filename to save.