Postman (getpostman.com) - nested array

Question

I'm not sure if anything has changed, but I'm sure, it was possible to pass an array like this:

This request would end up in array (php):

[
   'title' => 'Article',
   'author' => [
      'first_name' => 'John',
      'last_name' => 'Doe'
   ]
]

But if I try send this request now, it is no more possible and sends request like this:

[
   'title' => 'Article',
   'author[first_name]' => 'John',
   'author[last_name]' => 'Doe'
]

What am I doing wrong? How can I achieve sending nested array?

Thanks.

I don't think you can send a nested array here, because it contains key : value here — Mayank Pandeyz
– Mayank Pandeyz, Commented May 19, 2017 at 13:02
@MayankPandeyz as I said, it was working, but it doesn't anymore — Jakub Kratina
– Jakub Kratina, Commented May 19, 2017 at 15:05

Pratik Mandrekar · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-19 15:34:05Z

3

If you pass things like that it will end up as strings on your server. If you are actually trying to pass nested/associative data you can change your body to raw and select JSON as the content-type.

{
    "title" : "Article",
    "author": {
        "first_name": "John",
        "last_name" : "Doe"
    }
}

answered May 19, 2017 at 15:34

Pratik Mandrekar

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4 Comments

Jakub Kratina Over a year ago

Yes, I know that, thank you. But I'm 100% sure it was possible as I mentioned. This is a backup solution.

Pratik Mandrekar Over a year ago

Are you sure your server side code was not parsing the string into an php array? If you think it is a bug in Postman you can discuss it in the Postman Community Slack channel - getpostman.com/slack-invite

Jakub Kratina Over a year ago

I don't know, will try. Thank you for your help.

TerranRich Over a year ago

Also, for anybody coming across this answer years later like I did: Postman does not like single-quotes around JSON variable names, only double-quotes!

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