Getting Started Postman Collection
This page covers importing and running the API collection in Postman
You need to an Application with the basic DID and Credential scopes to run the collection. Please consult the guide section on Applications for details on managing platform Applications. You will also need to have Postman installed. See the Download page for you Operating System.
Import Postman Collection
This Postman collection is meant to get you quickly up and running and familiarized with the basics of the API.
You can import this into Postman with File -> Import, or with Import button.
From there, you will be presented with an area to drag and drop the Postman collection JSON file, or click on the area and select the Transmute-Getting-Started.postman_collection.json
file.
You will then have the Postman collection imported.
Next we will cover how to set up the variables to start using the API.
Manual Client Credentials Authentication
Once you have the Postman Collection imported. We will need to set the CLIENT_ID
and CLIENT_SECRET
to be able to authenticate with the Verifiable Data Platform API.
Once you have created an Application to run the Postman collection, you can copy-paste the Application client credentials into the collection variables.
Authenticating with Application Environment
Choose Import and select or drop the postman-environment-details.json
file to import it into Postman.
When imported, select the imported environment for the collection to run with the associated client credentials.
Postman Collection Functionality
To run the collection, click on the three dots next to "VDP Getting Started", and then click on "Run Collection.
WARNING: We are in the process of refactoring the api, the /api
path might not yet be in the api endpoint path. If you get a 404 response you might need to remove /api
from the path.
To run the entire collection, right-click the Collection and choose Run Collection to run all the endpoints in order.
The Postman collection calls some basic network requests to the API:
First obtains an access token for the application
Queries and resolves the default did:web
Issues and verifies a sample Verifiable Credential with standard endpoints
Issues and verifies a sample Verifiable Credential with platform convenience endpoints
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