Postman integration - IDE

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Postman integration - IDE #5904

Open GitHubHelps opened 5 years ago

GitHubHelps commented 5 years ago

Hi people,

is it possible to integrate postman with IDE (like VSCode, Sublime)? Sometime in Postman, It is very hard to write tests (pre-request scripts/test), there is no suggestions what options I have when i write (ex. pm.expect/test/environment) Also if I make a mistake, the problem is no underline to warn me about, sometime takes a lot of time to find one letter mistype.

AjaySewradj commented 4 years ago

Any updates on this question? I would also very much like to integrate postman/newman into my development workflow. We are currently running integration tests in our CI/CD pipeline with newman+postman collections. It works really great, but the development experience when writing the tests are not so great. My main problems are:

Everytime I change the collection I have to export the collection to my project folder which is a git repository.
Similarily I have to import the latest version from the project
There is no intellisense available when writing tests, or autoformatting. I sometimes write in vscode and then copy the test into postman.

Solutions that would work for me are:

Have an option to save a collection to a file, so that changes to the file are automatically detected by my local git repository
Have a vscode plugin for writing postman tests, even better would be to directly update the tests in the collection

Thanks for the great work!

pankajk07 commented 4 years ago

@GitHubHelps We did a few changes around in our code-editor to improve the editing experience like better validation, extensive suggestions including suggestions for pm.* APIs, customizing editor settings, etc. Do give it a try and let us know if it serves your purpose.

AjaySewradj commented 4 years ago

@pankajk07 The editor within Postman is slightly better, but is nowhere near the experience of a full-blown IDE. Are you guys considering a VS Code plugin?

shashankawasthi88 commented 3 years ago

@GitHubHelps @AjaySewradj we are starting explorations around this. Would like to get on to a short call to understand your use case better. If possible can you pick a time for a call (30 min) using this link - https://calendly.com/shashank-awasthi/ide-plugin-explorations

AjaySewradj commented 3 years ago

Hi @shashankawasthi88 My usecase is very simple: I would like to work with my Postman collection in the same way as I work with my code files. So that means:

Edit Postman unit tests in an IDE (like VSCode)
Have Intellisense when writing Postman unit tests
Work with my own Git repository, so that everytime the Postman collections changes, Git notices a diff, and I can commit the change

der-kommissar commented 1 year ago

There is now a Postman VS Code extension: https://blog.postman.com/introducing-the-postman-vs-code-extension/ And as of last week, it has most of the features found in the desktop app: https://blog.postman.com/postman-vs-code-extension-early-access-with-new-features/

I'm only starting to play around with it, but it seems like Intellisense works.

XedinUnknown commented 2 months ago

IntelliJ user here. Seriously suffering from the lack of this functionality. I'd like not only to be able to edit scripts in the IDE, but ideally to edit them as separate files which can be then plugged into the collection requests. This promotes re-usability, but more importantly - it allows for much easier version control and contributions to collection scripts. For example, I've added a few nice modifications to allenheltondev/postman-contract-test-generator, but contributing them would be a huge pain. Making granular PRs with these changes to the collection is already a pain...