Sending PATCHes
You can use a request tool, such as Postman, to ensure PATCHes are well-formed and to review the structure of the response payloads. For more information on Postman, see Requests and responses.
Send a PATCH using Postman
Procedure
- In Postman, start a new request by clicking the + to the right of the Launchpad tab.
-
Specify Basic Auth authorization using user
aapplegate
and passwordgw
. - Under the Untitled Request label, make sure that PATCH is selected.
-
In the Enter request URL field, enter the URL for the server and
the endpoint.
- For example, to patch activity pc:2 on an instance of PolicyCenter on your
machine, enter:
http://localhost:8180/pc/rest/common/v1/activities/cc:2
- For example, to patch activity pc:2 on an instance of PolicyCenter on your
machine, enter:
-
Specify the request payload.
- In the first row of tabs (the one that starts with Params), click Body.
- In the row of radio buttons, select raw.
- At the end of the row of radio buttons, change the drop-down list value from Text to JSON.
- Paste the request payload into the text field underneath the radio buttons.
- Click Send. The response payload appears below the request payload.
Tutorial: PATCH an activity
This tutorial assumes you have set up your environment with Postman and the correct sample data set. For more information, see Tutorial: Set up your Postman environment.
In this tutorial, you will find an open activity from the sample data. You will then update the activity's subject and priority.
Tutorial steps
- In Postman, start a new request by clicking the + to the right of the
Launchpad tab.
- On the Authorization tab, select Basic Auth using user aapplegate and password gw.
- The sample data includes one "Review risk information" activity for Alice
Applegate. Query for that activity by entering the following call and clicking
Send:
- GET
http://localhost:8180/pc/rest/common/v1/activities?filter=subject:sw:Review%20risk
- GET
- For the activity in the response payload that is assigned to Andy/Alice Applegate, note
the following information:
- Activity ID
- Priority
- Subject
- Open a second request tab and right-clicking the first tab and selecting Duplicate Tab.
- Change the operation to PATCH and enter the following URL, but do not click
Send yet:
- PATCH
http://localhost:8180/pc/rest/common/v1/activities/<activityID>
- PATCH
- Specify the request payload.
- In the first row of tabs (the one that starts with Params), click Body.
- In the row of radio buttons, select raw.
- At the end of the row of radio buttons, change the drop-down list value from Text to JSON.
- Paste the following into the text field underneath the radio buttons. Note that the subject has an additional "!" at the end.
- Click Send. The response payload appears below the request payload.
Checking your work
- View the modified activity in PolicyCenter.
- Log on to PolicyCenter as the user
aapplegate
. In the left-hand side bar, click My Activities. PolicyCenter shows the My Activities screen, which shows the open activities assigned to Alice. - Click the Priority column to sort the activities in ascending priority order.
- Log on to PolicyCenter as the user
The PATCHed activity (whose priority is now Low) should be at or near the top of the list. The patched activity will have a subject ending with an "!".