POSTMAN multiple pool creation

[Chause1]

Good day,

We are looking at using POSTMAN to "script" pool creations.

I am able to submit one pool at a time to the device but when I attempt multiple pools it fails with a 400 error.

"code": 400,

    "message": "Found invalid JSON body in the request.",

Sample:

{

    "name":"x10779",

    "partition":"x",

    "loadBalancingMode":"least-connections-node",

    "monitor":"/Common/tcp",

    "members":[

         {"name":"x.x.x.x:10779"}

    ]

}

 {

 "name":"x10778",

    "partition":"x",

    "loadBalancingMode":"least-connections-node",

    "monitor":"/Common/tcp",

    "members":[

         {"name":"x.x.x.x:10778"}

    ]

}

[mihaic]

those are 2 json objects.

It should be one so you need to put those 2 in a list of dictionaries, something like this:

 

[ 
{ 
"name":"x10779", 
"partition":"x", 
"loadBalancingMode":"least-connections-node", 
"monitor":"/Common/tcp", 
"members":[ 
{"name":"x.x.x.x:10779"} 
] 
}
,
{
"name":"x10778",
"partition":"x",
"loadBalancingMode":"least-connections-node",
"monitor":"/Common/tcp",
"members":[
{"name":"x.x.x.x:10778"}
]
}
]

[Chause1]

Hi

Thanks for the feedback, however still no luck.

{

    "code": 400,

    "message": "Found invalid JSON body in the request. The expected JSON type is object. The received JSON type is array.",

    "errorStack": [],

    "apiError": 1

}

[ 

{ 

"name":"y_PROD",

"partition":"y", 

"loadBalancingMode":"least-connections-node", 

"monitor":"/Common/tcp", 

    "members":[

         {"name":"x.x.x.x:11"},

         {"name":"x.x.x.x:11"}

    ]

}

,

{

"name":"x_PROD",

"partition":"y, 

"loadBalancingMode":"least-connections-node", 

"monitor":"/Common/tcp", 

    "members":[

         {"name":"x.x.x.x:10"},

         {"name":"x.x.x.x:10"}

    ]

}

]

[mihaic]

Probably you need an API request for each pool you create.

[mihaic]

I don't know about Postman but it would be easier to use python or Ansible for this.

There is a way to add a data file  ( where  you have a list of json dictionaries) to Postman and get data  from it but it did not work for me for some reason. 

[mihaic]

I've managed to create pools via Postman. You will need to a collection and under it the post request.

Then you need a file containing your configuration of the pools, under your user ~/Postman/files/ folder.

here is an example of a file:

[

    { 

        "name": "pool1", 

        "loadBalancingMode": "least-connections-node", 

        "monitor": "/Common/tcp", 

        "members": [ 

            {

                "name": "8.8.8.8:10779"

                

            } ,

            {   

                "name": "1.1.1.1:80"

            }

        ] 

    },

    { 

        "name": "pool2", 

        "loadBalancingMode": "round-robin", 

        "monitor": "/Common/tcp", 

        "members": [ 

            {

                "name": "9.9.9.9:10779"

            },

            {

                "name": "2.2.2.2:443"

            } 

        ] 

    }

]   

You also need to put this under the  Pre-request Script:

pm.variables.set(`requestBody`, JSON.stringify(pm.iterationData.toObject()))

Under the body, select raw and JSON type and put this:

{{requestBody}}

Then you have to run the Collection and select the above file.

And that's it.

I've also created a collection for creating a VIP.