| Uzair Iftikhar
OVERVIEW OF API
API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface, which is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. Each time you use an app like Facebook, send an instant message, or check the weather on your phone, you’re using an API.
HOW TO SEE API RESPONSE
You can see API response by using postman application by sending request using post method and it will show the response of the request send in different formats
Postman have these methods for sending request to server shown in below image
SENDING POSTMAN REQUEST TO SEE THE RESPONSE
You can send the postman request to server and it will generate a response of the request which will show the data fetch from the API and then you can use the body of the API in power automate for fetching the data from API
Above shown diagram is the example of how you can send request in postman and it will generate a body of request and will show the result in formats in different types
The result can be shown in different formats in postman applications for example
USING POSTMAN BODY IN POWER AUTOMATE FLOW FOR FETCHING DATA
1: Now you can put the body of postman request in power automate compose action
2: Then you will call the custom connector for calling the API and in the body you will give the output of the compose body of postman request
3: When you will run the flow it will generate the result in body and you can see the copy the whole body of the output result and paste in xml viewer and you can see the xml of the body which contains the data of requested API
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"><soap:Body soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"><snp:StartSession xmlns:snp="urn:CSSoapService"><return>no_error</return><access_key>38369906</access_key></snp:StartSession></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
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