1 00:00:00,450 --> 00:00:02,700 Narrator: Okay, so let's take a look 2 00:00:02,700 --> 00:00:04,830 on what Postman offers us. 3 00:00:04,830 --> 00:00:07,380 So let's close this screen. 4 00:00:07,380 --> 00:00:10,800 Now, we are going to talk mainly on this part of the screen. 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,970 Now, here we can define what exactly do we want to 6 00:00:14,970 --> 00:00:16,800 send to a REST API. 7 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,820 So first, we select the http verb we want to use. 8 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:23,190 Now, you can see here a lot of verbs 9 00:00:23,190 --> 00:00:24,300 you're probably familiar with, 10 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:27,090 get, post, put, and delete. 11 00:00:27,090 --> 00:00:28,641 We talked about them earlier. 12 00:00:28,641 --> 00:00:31,364 All the other verbs are much less used 13 00:00:31,364 --> 00:00:34,020 and we won't discuss them in this course. 14 00:00:34,020 --> 00:00:37,230 Next, is the URL we want to go. 15 00:00:37,230 --> 00:00:39,660 Now, you can use the URL you see here 16 00:00:39,660 --> 00:00:42,690 but it'll be better if you will use the domain 17 00:00:42,690 --> 00:00:45,540 in receptor that you selected for yourself. 18 00:00:45,540 --> 00:00:49,830 So you will probably need to modify this part. 19 00:00:49,830 --> 00:00:52,800 So type the domains that you picked 20 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,023 and then let's click send. 21 00:00:57,150 --> 00:00:59,520 Now, look what we've got. 22 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,910 Postman here shows us the exact response 23 00:01:02,910 --> 00:01:05,640 that we've got from the REST API. 24 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,093 So the first thing that we see is right here, the JSON. 25 00:01:09,093 --> 00:01:11,010 This is the exact result 26 00:01:11,010 --> 00:01:14,220 or the exact response that we were expecting to. 27 00:01:14,220 --> 00:01:17,057 It says that the status is success exactly 28 00:01:17,057 --> 00:01:20,940 as we defined in B Sector, which is great. 29 00:01:20,940 --> 00:01:24,420 Now take a look here, on the right hand of the screen. 30 00:01:24,420 --> 00:01:27,723 We can see this status that returned, which is 200. 31 00:01:28,770 --> 00:01:33,330 How much time it took for the response to get executed 32 00:01:33,330 --> 00:01:34,860 and come back to us. 33 00:01:34,860 --> 00:01:36,360 And this size of the response 34 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:39,060 which in this case is 218 bytes. 35 00:01:39,060 --> 00:01:41,640 Now, usually this is all the information we need 36 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,950 in order to use REST API. 37 00:01:43,950 --> 00:01:47,850 So we need to see the verb, the url. 38 00:01:47,850 --> 00:01:49,950 If there are query parameters, 39 00:01:49,950 --> 00:01:51,990 which we don't have in this test, 40 00:01:51,990 --> 00:01:53,550 then we will put them here 41 00:01:53,550 --> 00:01:57,720 and we need to see the response and the status. 42 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:02,720 But it's important to know how exactly is this info to 43 00:02:03,132 --> 00:02:04,830 (indistinct) of the network. 44 00:02:04,830 --> 00:02:08,426 And to see this, click here on view 45 00:02:08,426 --> 00:02:11,550 and show Postman console. 46 00:02:11,550 --> 00:02:15,960 You can also use the keyboard shortcut of alt control C. 47 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,323 So I'll click it and I'll bring it here, 48 00:02:20,340 --> 00:02:23,610 so we can see it and click clear. 49 00:02:23,610 --> 00:02:27,907 And now, let's click send again. 50 00:02:27,907 --> 00:02:31,020 And again, I'll bring back the console 51 00:02:31,020 --> 00:02:32,493 and look what we have here. 52 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,840 The console shows us and make sure to click on raw here. 53 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,753 So the console shows us the raw information 54 00:02:42,753 --> 00:02:45,900 that is transferred between the client and the server. 55 00:02:45,900 --> 00:02:49,620 So what we see here is first this, this is the request. 56 00:02:49,620 --> 00:02:54,240 This is the exact string that the client has sent 57 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:59,010 to the server, and this is the exact string that 58 00:02:59,010 --> 00:03:01,200 was received back from the server. 59 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:03,150 So actually, this is a response 60 00:03:03,150 --> 00:03:07,770 and if you look at it you can see here the verb, the get. 61 00:03:07,770 --> 00:03:10,744 You can see the URL or part of it 62 00:03:10,744 --> 00:03:13,740 and you can see the host, which is right here. 63 00:03:13,740 --> 00:03:17,727 This is a domain I chose to myself with receptor. 64 00:03:17,727 --> 00:03:21,480 And here you can see the status code, of the 200. 65 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,430 is it okay? 66 00:03:23,430 --> 00:03:26,070 And this is the body. 67 00:03:26,070 --> 00:03:29,070 So the console allows us to see really 68 00:03:29,070 --> 00:03:31,350 the raw data that is going back 69 00:03:31,350 --> 00:03:34,170 and forth between the client and the server. 70 00:03:34,170 --> 00:03:37,230 And here in this screen we can see 71 00:03:37,230 --> 00:03:40,254 the pretty in presentation including the status 72 00:03:40,254 --> 00:03:42,565 and of course the body itself. 73 00:03:42,565 --> 00:03:43,620 Okay, great. 74 00:03:43,620 --> 00:03:47,940 So now we have Postman up and running on our PC. 75 00:03:47,940 --> 00:03:49,683 And we can go on with the course.