How do I call a method that has as parameter a custom-designed object with Postman API?-CodePudding

I am a newbie in using Postman for testing RESTful endpoints in Spring applications. Until now I only invoked simple methods, without parameters, which return only some String messages. I also read some topics about invoking methods that have parameters of basic types (int, String). Currently I have to create a Spring project for searching some jobs data stores in a Postgres DB. The controller method is this:

@ApiOperation(value = "Search job", notes = "With this request you can search for jobs", authorizations = {@Authorization(value = "Bearer")})
@PostMapping("/search")
public ResponseEntity<?> search(@RequestBody JobSearchEntity searchCriteria) {
    log.info("JobsController -> search method");
    //JobSearchEntity jobSearchEntity = modelMapper.map(jobSearch, JobSearchEntity.class);
    List<JobEntity> jobs = jobService.searchJobs(searchCriteria);
    //log.info(String.format("Job found: %s ", jobSearch));
    return ResponseEntity.ok(jobs);
}

As it can be seen, it takes as parameter an object of a custom-designed class from my project, which is shown below:

@Data
public class JobSearchEntity {
private String jobTitle;
private String jobDescription;
private List<String> technology;
private List<String> programmingLanguage;
private List<String> jobMobility;
private List<String> jobType;
private Integer paymentMin;
private Integer paymentMax;
}

Does someone please tell me how can I test such a method with Postman (or even more, is it possible to test such Restful endpoints)?

CodePudding user response：

I'm supposing that your endpoint accepts JSON objects. If so that is quite straightforward.

Go to the body tab of your request and configure it like this:

In the text area below you must insert your "custom" object in JSON format.

e.g:

{
    "jobTitle": "test",
    "jobDescription": "test",
    "technology": ["test"],
    "programmingLanguage": ["test"],
    "jobMobility": ["test"],
    "jobType": ["test"],
    "paymentMin": 0,
    "paymentMax": 0,
}

CodePudding user response：

Select the body and then select row and then choose JSON. and then write the field of the class which use passed as request body in JSON formate