Specify collection using URL

[khausam]

I was hoping to be able to specify my collection using a postman provided URL such as: https://www.getpostman.com/collections/secret_hex_guid_here . I tried placing the URL in the "Collection File Source" field, but no luck. Error was: "##[error]Not found collectionFileSource: D:\a\r1\a\https:\www.getpostman.com\collections\cd..." Is what I am trying to do supported?

[carlowahlstedt]

Currently, there is not support for that. Sounds like a create feature to be added though! I just verified how it works inside of postman by creating a request in a collection and sharing it.

Here is the line that gets the collection. Probably have to make an http call to get the file contents, create each file, and then run it through Newman, unless it has native support for these collections. I didn't look into that.

[khausam]

I have successfully run newman from the command line just passing the https url as a parameter instead of the path to a local collection json file. So if this is what you mean by native support, then I believe the answer is yes.

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On Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 9:54 PM Carlo Wahlstedt ***@***.*** wrote: Currently, there is not support for that. Sounds like a create feature to be added though! I just verified how it works inside of postman by creating a request in a collection and sharing it <https://www.getpostman.com/collections/4b34e87f2bd3fbbaf1a4>. Here is the line that gets the collection <https://github.com/carlowahlstedt/NewmanPostman_VSTS_Task/blob/master/NewmanPostman/newmantask.ts#L101>. Probably have to make an http call to get the file contents, create each file, and then run it through Newman, unless it has native support for these collections. I didn't look into that. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#46 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AB3BxP8R9k9DqqOxF-MBoNSsdDBqKULZks5u1zV2gaJpZM4ZBjMJ> .

[carlowahlstedt]

@khausam this should be released now. Please verify for us.

[esbenbach]

I am using this feature, but using URLs of the form: https://api.getpostman.com/collections/COLLECTIONID?apikey=MYSECRETKEY

It works just great. A suggested advanced feature would be to just take the collectionid and the apikey as input so I dont have to worry about the base API url, but its not important it works fine.

[carlowahlstedt]

@esbenbach Are there any other ways this URL can be specified? Are there non-postman urls that can be specified here?

[esbenbach]

I would assume that any url which returns the right json format should work. Though i have not tested it

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On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, 19:42 Carlo Wahlstedt, ***@***.***> wrote: @esbenbach <https://github.com/esbenbach> Are there any other ways this URL can be specified? Are there non-postman urls that can be specified here? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#46 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABUH_hxJ3Qba6j0jie_hs5rbxuYRXfQOks5vPZcBgaJpZM4ZBjMJ> .