10: Deployment

Activity 18: Changing access_token to a Variable in Postman

Solution

1. Perform user login and get the access token. Use the POST Token request to get the access token. You should see the following output:

   Figure 10.29: Performing user login to get an access token

2. Click Manage environments in the top right-hand corner in Postman. Create the access_token variable. The value is the access token we obtained in the previous step. Then, click Update:

   Figure 10.30: Adding more environment variables in Postman

3. Select the GET User request. In the Headers tab, change the Authorization value to Bearer {{access_token}}, which is the environment variable we added in the previous step, and then send the request. You should see the following output:
   

Figure 10.31: Using more environment variables in Postman