SendRequest in a Pre-request Script on Collection - how to get response to set Collection Variable

[dacreator (James)]

Hi MDJones,

thanks for your detailed help!
I pasted your code into the Collection Pre-Script and updated my parameters and saved the changes.
When I POST a request in the collection, no error is generated, status 200.
But I can see that the Collection Variable CollRefToken is not being updated.

What is strange that in the request, the variable value of CollRefTokenDev (Refreshed Token should be used as Auth), still has an old value.

Does the Cookie play a role here? Generally, I want to use the refreshed Token in the Collection Variable CollRefTokenDev for every request, and not some value stored in a cookie.

CURL of request:

curl --location --request POST 'URL' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGcXXXXXX' \
--header 'Cookie: 5cfd47a23da9b9e1c98a84d0986d03c4=bb651d69ae861b858c8e7b91f7b51002' \
--data-raw '{
"$type": "BLA",
"Message": "Some Message expected to be received and processed by the system",
"MessageType": "BLA"
}'

I think this is related to my other post, where there is a Collection using new environment with Cookie (no value update) in comparison with a Collection using an old environment without cookie (value is being updated):

Setting Collection Variable doesn't work

My question: I have 2 collections. In C1 I send a request to get the response value of “access_type” and set its value in the Collection variable “CollRefToken”. This works fine. every time I POST the request, the current value of CollRefToken is being updated. The Code to set the CollVar is under “Tests” in the POST request. In C2 I want to do the same. Same code, but here the Collection variable is not being updated. The request runs without error in both collections. Details (like screen…

Thanks