TIP: Anaplan API with Postman

Doing some work with the Anaplan API recently I found myself annoyed with having to copy/paste the tokenValue you need for each subsequent command after authenticating via https://auth.anaplan.com/token/authenticate.

Below are some tips I found on how to automate it:

• Create yourself a Postman Environment and store your username and password in local variables.
• I name my variables with a lowercase v at the beginning e.g. vUsername and vPassword
• You will then be able to use variables in your URLs and Headers by typing {{vUsername}}
• Create another variable vTokenValue in your environment that will then store the result after you authenticate
• Create a POST request to https://auth.anaplan.com/token/authenticate using your {{vUsername}} and {{vPassword}} in authentication
• KEY PART

  Then put the following code into the Tests tab 

  pm.environment.set("vTokenValue", pm.response.json().tokenInfo.tokenValue);

  This will set your Environment vTokenValue with the value return from the API call
  

   

• Once run you can then check the value is populated in your environment 
• Now when you do other API calls you just need to add a Header as per below