Postman pm.sendRequest example

example.md

To send a request via the sandbox, you can use pm.sendRequest.

pm.test("Status code is 200", function () {
    pm.sendRequest('https://postman-echo.com/get', function (err, res) {
        pm.expect(err).to.not.be.ok;
        pm.expect(res).to.have.property('code', 200);
        pm.expect(res).to.have.property('status', 'OK');
    });
});

Without additional options, this will sent a GET request to the URL specified. If you prefer to be more explicit, you can use the complete syntax:

pm.sendRequest({
    url: 'https://postman-echo.com/post',
    method: 'POST',
    header: 'headername1:value1',
    body: {
        mode: 'raw',
        raw: JSON.stringify({ key: "this is json" })
    }
}, function (err, res) {
    console.log(res);
});

Hi,
@jprealini Thank you for the reply. Apologies, I did find what my issue was but I forgot to come and update here.
Basically, I had to surround my pm.sendRequest around a try, catch block.
If it's not surrounded then it was not writing to the console of an issue with the sendRequest.

And about your questions,

1. In this instance I don't use the Test block for asserting a test case.
   My intention is to run a script after a postman request to initialize my env vars which I will subsequently use in other API calls.
2. See 1
3. Yes, I was expecting the console.log to indicate what the response was.
   But as I said there was an issue with the call and without try/catch there was no information shown in the console.

I really appreciate you replying back and checking! Thank you.

Is there any way to run a saved request from the collection in the Pre-request Script?

like postman.setNextRequest('req-name') but before the actual request not after.

Is there any way to run a saved request from the collection in the Pre-request Script?

Not that I'm aware of. I've recently asked them for this feature, though. It would be a huge timesaver if we could just pm.sendRequest by GUID.

any update on this? @ABlomberg