[Solved] Is it possible to send an array with the Postman Chrome extension?

Solution #1:

You need to suffix your variable name with [] like this:

If that doesn’t work, try not putting indexes in brackets:

my_array[]  value1
my_array[]  value2

Note:

• If you are using the postman packaged app, you can send an array by selecting raw / json (instead of form-data). Also, make sure to set Content-Type as application/json in Headers tab.
  Here is example for raw data {"user_ids": ["123" "233"]}, don’t forget the quotes!

• If you are using the postman REST client you have to use the method I described above because passing data as raw (json) won’t work. There is a bug in the postman REST client (At least I get the bug when I use 0.8.4.6).

Solution #2:

For me did not work with array[0], array1, .. or array[], array[], … .
It works more simply:

Solution #3:

Here is my solution:

use form-data and edit as below:

Key       Value 
box[]      a
box[n1]    b
box[n2][]  c
box[n2][]  d

and you will get an array like this:

{"box":{"0":"a","n1":"b","n2":["c","d"]}}

Solution #4:

If you want an array of dicts, try this:

Solution #5:

I also had that problem, and solved it by doing the following:

1 – Going to the request header configuration and added the following:

Accept : application/json, text/plain, */*
Content-Type : application/json;charset=UTF-8

2 – To send the json array, I went to raw json format and set the user_ids to array:

user_ids: ["bbbbbbbbbb","aaaaaaaaaa","987654321","123456789"]

Solution #6:

Set Body as raw and form the array as follows:

Solution #7:

It is important to know, that the VALUE box is only allowed to contain a numeral value (no specifiers).

If you want to send e.g. an array of “messages” with Postman, each having a list of key/value pairs, enter e.g. messages[][reason] into the KEY box and the value of reason into the VALUE box:

The server will receive:

{"messages"=>[{"reason"=>"scrolled", "tabid"=>"2"}, {"reason"=>"reload", "tabid"=>"1"}], "endpoint"=>{}}

Solution #8:

As mentioned by @pinouchon you can pass it with the help of array index

my_array[0] value
my_array[1] value

In addition to this, to pass list of hashes, you can follow something like:

my_array[0][key1] value1

my_array[0][key2] value2

Example:

To pass param1=[{name:test_name, value:test_value}, {...}]

param1[0][name] test_name

param1[0][value] test_value

Solution #9:

Go to Header and select Content-Type = application/json then go to body and select raw and then pass an array.

Solution #10:

this worked for me. to pass an array of Item object {ItemID,ColorID,SizeID,Quntity}

Solution #11:

in headers set

content-type : application/x-www-form-urlencoded

In body select option

x-www-form-urlencoded

and insert data as json array

user_ids : ["1234", "5678"]

Solution #12:

This also works for lists within the object:

Id:37
IdParent:26
Name:Poplet
Values[0].Id:1349
Values[0].Name:SomeName
Values[1].Id:1350
Values[1].Name:AnotherName

the equivalent JSON would be:

{
    "Id": 37,
    "IdParent": 26,
    "Name": "Poplet",
    "Values": [
        {
            "Id": 1349,
            "Name": "SomeName"
        },
        {
            "Id": 1350,
            "Name": "AnotherName"
        }
    ]
}

Solution #13:

Choose either form-data or urlencoded and use the same key “user_ids”. The server should receive it as an array.

Solution #14:

{
    "data" : [  
        {
            "key1" : "value1",
            "key2" : "value2"   
        },
        {
            "key01" : "value01",
            "key02" : "value02"             
        },
        {
            "key10" : "value10",
            "key20" : "value20"   
        }
    ]
}

You can pass like this.
Hope this will help someone.

Solution #15:

In form-data,

   key              value

 user_ids[]         1234
 user_ids[]         5678

Solution #16:

My back-end is written in Ruby on Rails. This is how I sent the array params using Postman. It worked for me.

UPDATE

I’m using x-www-form-urlencoded. I believe it will work too for form-data.

Solution #17:

I tried all solution here and in other posts, but nothing helped.

The only answer helped me:
Adding [FromBody] attribute before decleration of parameter in function signature:

[Route("MyFunc")]        
public string MyFunc([FromBody] string[] obj)