PUT request in Postman - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to set the HTTP method to PUT in Postman.

Postman

pm.request.method = '[1]';

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APOST

BGET

CPUT

DDELETE

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using GET or POST instead of PUT

Misspelling the method name

The HTTP method must be set to PUT to update resources using a PUT request.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to add a JSON body to the PUT request in Postman.

Postman

pm.request.body.raw = JSON.stringify({"name": "John", "age": 30});
pm.request.body.mode = '[1]';

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Araw

Bformdata

Curlencoded

Dfile

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Setting mode to formdata or urlencoded when sending raw JSON

Not setting the body mode at all

To send a JSON string as the body, the mode must be set to raw.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to set the Content-Type header for a PUT request in Postman.

Postman

pm.request.headers.upsert('Content-Type', '[1]');

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Aapplication/xml

Bapplication/json

Ctext/plain

Dmultipart/form-data

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using text/plain or application/xml for JSON data

Forgetting to set the Content-Type header

The Content-Type for JSON data must be application/json to inform the server about the data format.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to correctly check the PUT response status and parse JSON in Postman test script.

Postman

pm.test('Status code is [1]', () => {
    pm.response.to.have.status([2]);
});

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A'200 OK'

B200

C'404 Not Found'

D404

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using numbers in the test description string

Using strings instead of numbers in status check

The test description should be a string like '200 OK', but the status code check requires the numeric value 200.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to write a test that checks the PUT response JSON has a 'success' key set to true.

Postman

pm.test('Response has success true', () => {
    const jsonData = pm.response.json();
    pm.expect(jsonData.[1]).to.eql([2]);
    pm.expect(typeof jsonData.[3]).to.eql('boolean');
});

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Asuccess

Btrue

CsuccessFlag

Dfalse

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'successFlag' instead of 'success'

Using string 'true' instead of boolean true

The JSON key is 'success' and it should be true. The type check uses the same key.