Tips for using Postman

This is beyond the scope of the workshop. The following notes may be helpful in configuring your environment. An export of preconfigured envs to work with the official demo and a collection of useful requests, more than the ones used in the tutorial, are available for download

• Env Official DSpace 7 Demo - Anonymous user
• Env Official DSpace 7 Demo - Administrator user
• Env Official DSpace 7 Demo - Submitter user
• Request collection

Create a Collection in Postman

• Click “Edit” on the Collection

Set the following Pre-request Script

Customize the server address, username, and password for your site.

const loginRequest = {
  url: pm.environment.get('dspaceresturl') + "/api/authn/login",
  method: 'POST',
  header: 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
  body: "user="+pm.environment.get('dspaceuser')+"&password="+pm.environment.get('dspacepwd')
};
pm.sendRequest(loginRequest, function (err, response) {
    var s = response.headers.get("Authorization");
    if (s == null) {
        s = "";
    } else {
        s = s.replace(/Bearer /,"");
    }
    pm.environment.set("auth_token", s);
});

Set the following Environment Variable

Create one or more environments with the following variables

• dspaceresturl: http://localhost:8080/spring-rest
• dspaceuser: dspacedemo%2Badmin@gmail.com
• dspacepwd: dspace

Please note that the dspaceuser and dspacepwd must be URLEncoded (i.e. + become %2B). To setup an env for anonymous user simple keep the dspaceuser and dspacepwd empty

Set the following Authorization Value

• Type: Bearer Token
• Token: {{auth_token}}

In your requests

Set Authorization to “Inherit from Parent”