Testing your API

I prefer to use Postman for testing APIs (www.postman.com). Postman is free if you want to use it for testing APIs.

Step 1 - Create a collection

Open Postman

Select the tab authorization
Select OAuth 2.0 as your authorization type.
Expand the selection Configure New Token.
Enter your Access Token URL, which is always like this

https://<BOARD SERVER>/identity/connect/token
Enter your Client ID (this is the API user name)
Enter your Client Secret
Set the scope: public-api

Scroll a bit down and press the button Get New Access Token

Postman will call your API and when everything is entered correctly it will show a new screen with an unique token.

Press the button Use Token, you will return to the previous screen and now press update.

You now created a new collection and you can add now an API to test if your API is working.

Select your collection
press the plus icon to add a new tab.
Select the option GET.
Copy the URL, which you have created in the step configure an API Query into the address bar.
Press the save button to add your request, you will need to save it in your Collection before you can use it, the requests needs the token from the collection

Make sure that you select the collection before pressing the save button

After you have saved your request you can execute it.