Passing a file type for api request

[shubhambajad]

Hi team,

Is there any way in portman using which we can pass the file which we want to upload via api request?

[thim81]

hi @shubhambajad

I havent tried this myself but a combination of parameters, could do the trick

portman --includeTests false --syncPostman --localPostman ./your-folder/your.postman.json

--localPostman ./your-folder/your.postman.json => instructs Portman to skip the OAS to Postman conversion, and use a valid Postman collection JSON file
--includeTests false => instructs Portman to skip any modifications to the Postman collection just loaded
--syncPostman => instructs Portman to upload the loaded Postman collection

Could you report back if it worked?

[shubhambajad]

Hi @thim81

Actually the thing is I have one api request in which I need to pass a file as input like given below

And I need to pass this at a run time using portman config so Is there any way like from pre-requisite script or something else?

[thim81]

Hmm I'm not sure if we would support "file_path" overwrites.

Can you set this a file and if you export the Postman collection, how would that part look in JSON?

[shubhambajad]

Hi @thim81

I tried one solution like I have used the overwrite property and passed the file path from pre-requisite script where I have mentioned the form data and it worked.

const body = {
        "mode": "formdata",
        "formdata": [{
                "key": "file_path",
                "type": "file",
                "src": "Testing1.json"
            }
        };
pm.request.body.update(body);

We can pass relative path by maintaining the file in postman or newman directory or we can pass relative path as well

Thank you for your support.

[thim81]

@shubhambajad Thanks for sharing the solutions, so that other Portman users can re-use it.

[thim81]

Related to this topic, be sure to have a look at the Portman config technique shared by @Lars-Brebels-92
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