Use Postman as an API-Test Environment

Using the Postman application, you can model API requests to a target application, and test the requests for a response.

To create API requests, you must refer to the target application's API documentation and understand the public APIs available. Subsequently, you can use the Postman application to model and test your requests.

Among other things, the Postman application allows you to model an authentication scheme, save a REST API contract, and save a response as an example. In addition, you can group requests into a collection, and edit the name or description for the requests. You can use all this information to model several aspects for your adapter.

You must create a Postman collection of API requests (to the target application) in order to generate an adapter definition document using the VS Code extension for Rapid Adapter Builder. For the detailed steps on how to create a collection and export it, see Create a Postman Collection Using API Requests.