Test Mifos API in Postman
#Test Mifos API in Postman
The assumption here is that you have Postman installed. Other such REST clients can be used also.
1. Open up postman : You should see a similar screen like the one below
2. Select Authorization in the tab menu immediately below the input field
3. Select Basic Authentication :You should now see input fields for username and password
4. Enter the username and password
Click on update request at the far right corner
5. You should now see a similar screen in the Headers tab
Fill out the other headers as show below:
6. Select your HTTP method. In this case we use GET
7. Fill out the URL as seen in the documentation. In this case https://demo.openmf.org/fineract-provider/api/v1/clients
8. Press Enter or click the SEND button at the far right corner
This should now make such a request and the response will be presented in the text area below(see screenshot):
9. In event of a POST request
- Select POST in the drop down at the left corner of the input field
- Fill out the required url. In this case
https://demo.openmf.org/fineract-provider/api/v1/clients - Click on body in the tabbed menu.
- Select the format you want to enter your data in. In this case we use
raw
- Enter your body data as shown
- Click enter
- Your response should be presented in the text area below.