How to use Postman to test AJAX requests

[bernhard]

This is actually very easy but might be interesting for someone anyhow (and I post it here as a reminder for myself).

You can use Postman (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman/fhbjgbiflinjbdggehcddcbncdddomop?hl=de) to send requests to your ProcessWire installation and test request answers. The problem is that $config->ajax will always return FALSE.

To make the $config->ajax work properly you just need to add this key-value-pair to your requests:

key: X-Requested-With
value: XMLHttpRequest

Happy AJAXing

PS: This also works inside the admin, see post 3

[dragan]

Thanks for the tip.

btw - PHPStorm has a REST client tool built-in (this is more of a reminder / info for other PHPStorm users - it's such a massive IDE that handy features like these can be easily missed)

[bernhard]

You can even use it inside the backend:

• Install Postman Interceptor extension
• Activate the extension in the browser and in the postman app
• Go to your desired admin page (eg /page/edit/?id=123)
• The request will show up in the history and you can modify it to your needs

I'm doing a die('test') here in the admin, with tracy installed, of course 

[szabesz]

4 hours ago, bernhard said:

and I post it here as a reminder for myself

Hehe. The PW forum is a nice snippets manager and knowledge base for free  

[Gideon So]

This community is so awesome and helpful.

 

Gideon

[bernhard]

Just found another nice tool for debugging rest apis: https://insomnia.rest/

[LostKobrakai]

For mac apps I can also recommend https://paw.cloud/.