Begin Training - Requests

Let's Start with our Collections.You can understand request as per the word says that you are requesting data from the server.

For starting learning you need to click on SEND which means you are Sending a request to given route ( URL ) which is "postman-student-expert.glitch.me/training" in this case as you can see there.
When send the request you will get response
In this collection response will help you to do next steps

You need to select the "postman-student-expert.glitch.me" After hovering the selected area you will be able to SET AS VARIABLE.
For setting up variable you need to provide name "training_api" and scope as Collection.
When you need to use the url "postman-student-expert.glitch.me" for sending request you can now use .
For eg: "/matches"
With this note let's move to next request in our Folder which is GET MATCHES ! Don't Forget to SAVE THE REQUEST from top right area in Navbar.

GET REQUEST

GET /matches

When you send the request you get data about matches. You can also read more in VISULIZE
Our first task is to get the matches with status as pending. We can do this with help of query parameters

GET /matches?status=pending

You need to send this route.You will get the matches which are pending as a response.
This is how you can sort data coming from API ( The sorting must be provided by the server also. )
You need to save this request and create a new request "2. Add match

POST /match

This will give you authentication error because we need to be authenticated to get some response for this request. You can understand auth as login to account.
Click on three dots near collection name and this will give you option to edit then click on that.
When you see under authorization you can see key as matchkey and value as emailkey which means you need to provide your email as emailkey
We need to create a varible with name emailkey and value as email we used for registration.
Click on variable tab and create a new variable under training_api.

variable : email_key
initial_value : rohank2502@gmail.com

Now after sending requst it will give you Bad Request - Check your body data because in POST request we need to provide some data in body.
Click on BODY then Click on TEXT and convert it to JSON
Add the given object in the body and send request again.

{
  "match": "Cup Final",
  "when": "",
  "against": "Academical"
}

This time you will see SUCCESS MESSAGE. You can check about the added data in get matches request.
Now next step is PUT Request.Save this request and create a new request "3. Update Score"

PUT /match

When you send this PUT request you will get an error which will ask you to provide match id.
You can go to GET request and then send it again and copy the match id of the match you added ( ONLY MATCH YOU ADDED CAN BE UPDATED BY YOU )
You need to provide this id as params

PUT /match?match_id=LwDlF-mHt

Your request will look like this.
This reqeust will give you error becuase in PUT requset you need to send data to be updated in body
Go to body select raw and type as json

{
    "points":3
}

DELETE /match/:match_id

You need to pass this request in DELETE and this will delete the match with this id. ( YOU CAN ONLY DELETE THE MATCH YOU ADDED )

/:match_id

This is a PATH Variable which will help to know which match you want to delete.
That's it for this part and you will save the request and move to the next part.