API Blueprint to Postman

Quickstart

1. Install the package globally

   npm i -g @apib/2postman
   

2. Obtain an API blueprint definition file. This is usually created with markdown using API blueprint syntax. You can then feed this blueprint into the following command to have a Postman collection generated from it.

3. Run the command to generate a Postman collection and environment

   apib2postman <your-blueprint.apib> -o collection.json -e environment.json
   

Command Line Options

apib2postman <api-blueprint.apib> [options]

• -o <output>, --output <output>

  Default stdout

  Specify a file for where the collection will be saved.

• -e <env-output>, --environment <env-output>

  Default API.postman_environment.json

  Specify a file for where the environment template will be saved.

• -t <test-template>, --testTemplate <test-template>

  Default templates/postman/actions/js-tests.hbs

  Specify a handlebar template to be used for each action's Postman tests. Variables are listed below which can be used within the template.

Postman Test Template

Some JS tests have been created which get templated and attached to every action. The default tests exist at templates/postman/js-tests.hbs

This template is applied to every action and the variables which get passed to this template are as follows:

Name	Description	Example
pathName	The path of the group collection as a standardized name.	networkDevices_ for /api/networkDevices/:id
isPageable	Returns true if the response schema has a collection within	true
sortParams	The accepted sort parameters parsed from the sort query parameter description	[ "name", "category" ]
request	The same request definition passed to the postman collection template	{ }
response	The same response definition passed to the postman collection template	{ }