Getting Started Postman Collection

This page covers importing and running the API collection in Postman

You will need to have Postman installed to run this tutorial. 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.

Getting started postman collection.

You can import this into Postman with File -> Import, or with Import button.

Click on File -> Import to import a .JSON collection
Click on File -> Import to import a .JSON collection

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.

Select JSON Postman collection to run it
Select JSON Postman collection to run it

You will then have the Postman collection imported.

Transmute collection imported into Postman

Next we will cover how to set up an environment to start calling the API.

Import Environment

You need an Application with suitable scopes to run the collection. For full details, please consult the guide section on Applications for details on managing platform Applications.

On the Transmute platform, go to Applications, and create a new Application. Select the `Credentials`, `Presentations`, and `Organizations` scopes which are required to run the collection. Click "Create Application" and download the Postman environment.

In Postman, import the environment file as an Environment. Select it as the active environment in the top-right drop down.

Postman Collection Functionality

To run the collection, click on the three dots next to "Transmute Getting Started", and then click on "Run Collection.

Navigating to running the collection.
Navigating to running the collection.

To run the entire collection, right-click the Collection and choose Run Collection to run all the endpoints in order.

Running the Getting Started Postman Collection
Running the Getting Started Postman Collection

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 a sample Verifiable Credential

  • Illustrates different Verifiable Credential media type representations

  • Verifies retuned and referenced Verifiable Credentials

  • Signs a Verifiable Presentation

  • Submits a Verifiable Presentation

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