Postman Tutorial Part 52 – How To Send Parameterized XML Payload In Postman

As a part of Postman Tutorial – End to End , in this post, we will learn how can we send a XML payload and parameterized XML payload to request in Postman.

We can pass payload to a request in multiple ways. Sending XML payload is one of them. We also learnt how can we send a JSON and JSON with variables i.e. Parameterized JSON payload to a request.

We will be going to use RestFul-Booker Create Booking API for Demo. Create Booking API accepts JSON and XML payloads. We will create a booking by passing XML payload in Postman.

We can see header details and example request body in API documentation:-

Note :- We need to pass a header named “Content-Type” as “text/xml“. It is not supporting “application/xml“. In all latest APIs , you will see ” application/xml “. ” text/xml ” is superior of ” application/xml “.

Pass Create Booking API to URI section and add “Context-Type” header in Postman :-

Pass request body as XML :-

Click on Send button, and you will see a booking created.

So above are simple steps to pass a XML payload to request.

You can see we have passed all hard coded values in payload which is not always a good option. We can parameterized XML payload to pass values dynamically and achieve data driven as well.

Passing variables in XML payalod is same as we use variables at different places in Postman i.e. {{variableName}}. Let’s see this in action.

I will create an environment “Data Booking” in Postman and put all required values there and will use those variables in payload.