I have a schema that I want to use in tests in several dozen individual requests. Instead of copying the same schema definition into the Test for each request, is it possible to define the schema at a Collection level and reference the schema as a Collection variable?

if you manually create variables, you can only save them as strings. But your schema is an object. So you need to transform the object to a string with: JSON.stringify(yourObject) and the other way around to use if from a variable you need to do something like: const schema = JSON.parse(pm.vari…

Is it possible to have a shared Ajv schema?

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danny-dainton (Danny Dainton) August 29, 2019, 7:22pm 6

Hey @jshea,

Just jumping in here, I was able to log those errors to the Test Results by using the additional argument on the pm.expect() function.

This test is slightly different from the way you have it but it should hopefully show you the method I used.

pm.test('Schema is valid', function() {
    pm.expect(ajv.validate(schema, pm.response.json()), JSON.stringify(ajv.errors)).to.be.true;
});

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Is it possible to have a shared Ajv schema?

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