How to check if exists property in json?

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Hello,

I want to validate a piece of the json’s response, but the data varies its position … I thought something like that … but it does not work for me.

Example:
pm.test(‘Validate date’, function() {
var idDate;
if((jsonData.date[0].id).exist){
pm.expect(jsonData.date[0]).to.have.property(‘id’);
idDate = jsonData.date[0].id;
} else {
pm.expect(jsonData.date).to.have.property(‘id’);
idDate = jsonData.date.id;
}
console.log(idDate);
pm.environment.set(“IdDATE-TEMP”, idDate);
});

Thanks and regards.

Pablo.

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I solved it with a try catch :slightly_smiling_face:

Try to look for it in one position and if it does not find it, look for it in the other.

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Hi @pablovok, just wanted to weigh in here about using lodash which is inbuilt in Postman and how you can easily get around this code piece.

Using the _.get method from lodash, which allows safe extraction you’ll be able to avoid try...catch blocks.

pm.test('Validate date', function () {
  var idDate = _.get(jsonData, 'date[0].id');

  if (idDate) {
    pm.expect(jsonData.date[0]).to.have.property('id');
  } else {
    pm.expect(jsonData.date).to.have.property('id');
    idDate = _.get(jsonData, 'date.id');
  }

  console.log(idDate);
  pm.environment.set('IdDATE - TEMP', idDate);
});
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