Newman issue when running collection

[jbarr (Jason Barr)]

I’m running into a problem with newman when running one of my collections, and I can’t quite figure out where things are going wrong. I’ve seen the other threads mentioning issues when running stuff with newman, but I can’t find one that seems applicable to me.

In my script I grab the value of the Set-Cookie header, and extract the bit I need. This string is then set as a global variable, {{tracking_code}}, which is used by the next test. When I run the test on the cli, this is what I see:

→ get shared lists
  GET https://integration-api..../api/listing/v1/shared/FPTFMTV [200 OK, 488B, 337ms]
  ┌
  │ 'correlation id = wishlist_3c956902-3818-42cf-b0c8-82f0c7e9f6ac'
  └
  1⠄ TypeError in test-script

→ list checkout
  POST https://integration-api......./api/listing/v1/checkout [500 Internal Server Error, 473B, 221ms]
  2. response code should be '204 No Content'
  ┌
  │ '::: REQUEST DATA :::'
  │ '{\n\t"token" : "{{tracking_code}}",\n\t"lineItems" : [\n\t\t{ \n\t\t\t"skuId" : "237397061",\n\t\t\t"quantity" : 1\n\t\t}\n\t]\n}'

I’m wondering why {{tracking_code}} isn’t being set for the subsequent request?

This is the body of the request where I’m re-using {{tracking_code}}:

{
	"token" : "{{tracking_code}}",
	"lineItems" : [
		{ 
			"skuId" : "{{skuID}}",
			"quantity" : 1
		}
	]
}

And this is how I set it:

var header = pm.response.headers.get(`Set-Cookie`);
pm.globals.set(`tracking_code`, header.substring(8, 20));

Using Postman I can see everything looks happy:

I’m so stumped by this, any ideas appreciated.

[jbarr (Jason Barr)]

I seem to have resolved this by removing a conflict with an env and global variable which had the same name. I think global vars have precedence, so it was trying to use that in the body of the request but the type was incorrect meaning it wasn’t being substituted.