How to pass an array to the body as json in postman

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Hello Everyone,
I want to know how to pass an array to the response body?
I am saving an array as an environmental variable as a string, but I want to pass that array to the response body as an array not as string.
Please anyone help me with this.
This is how I save the variable
const recordsArr = JSON.parse(responseBody).records;
pm.environment.set(“recordsArr”, JSON.stringify(recordsArr));
And I want to pass like this.

  "dynamic_template_data": {
    "records": {{recordsArr}} 
  }

recordsArr is an array of object
when I try to access the value inside the array inside the body, it doesn’t return anything, it’s not able to access nested property inside the stringfy array

2

This saves the object as a string.

If you want to save it as a JSON object just modify your script to be:

const recordsArr = JSON.parse(responseBody).records;
pm.environment.set('recordsArr', recordsArr);
3

Thanks for your response
is it ok to directly save the object without converting to string?

4

It depends on the use case. This one might work, honestly I’m not sure. What I’ve done in the past is set the entire body to a stringified variable and used that in the request.

const recordsArr = JSON.parse(responseBody).records;
const body = {
  dynamic_template_data: {
    records: recordsArr
  }
};

pm.environment.set('body', JSON.stringify(body));

Then in your request body, just drop in the body variable.

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This is not working for me because I have more text inside the body and body is not an object in my case
Edit: I made it working by manupulating the body object