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Allow interactions with saved requests from within visualisations

Open excudo opened this issue 6 years ago • 5 comments
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Using the Visualisations, it's possible create interactions as well while displaying the response data. It would be a great addition if these interactions would allow a developer to generate actions that execute requests from the same collection thereby also being able to fill the parameters of such a request with data from the current repsonse. This would allow for a complete interactive way of browsing through the API.

For example:

  • A call is done to retrieve an overview of users (/api/users/)
  • You would click on the id of a user and this would trigger the call that retrieves information about this user (/api/user/{id})
  • Among that information is an overview of services that this user has signed up for. Clicking on the id of a service would then trigger the call with more information about that server (/api/service/{id}) etc.

I know it's currently possible to set variables based on the repsonse of a call and use those values in subsequent calls, but this doesn't work when there's multiple values to choose from (as is the case in my example)

With this addition you would be able to set up an interactive way of browsing through the data of your whole api, all from within Postman.

excudo avatar Nov 08 '19 11:11 excudo