Postman Maven Plugin

A maven plugin to export JAX-RS annotated classes and methods to Postman collection.

Usage

Requirements

• Java 8+
• Maven 3.5.0+

CLI

In you ~/.m2/settings.xml file, add the following:

<pluginGroups>
  <pluginGroup>net.cpollet.maven.plugins</pluginGroup>
</pluginGroups>

Then, to generates a file ${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.json containing the postman collection in the target folder:

$ mvn postman:generate -Dpostman.packagesToScan=net.cpollet \
                       -Dpostman.baseUrl=http://localhost \
                       -Dpostman.basicAuth.username=username \
                       -Dpostman.basicAuth.password=password

You can execute this command from the jaxrs folder for instance.

• postman.baseUrl mandatory. A valid URL that will be used as the base URL for all discovered endpoints;
• postman.packagesToScan optional. If not set, the plugin will scan all packages;
• postman.basicAuth.* optional.

pom.xml

The CLI equivalent XML configuration is:

<plugin>
    <groupId>net.cpollet.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>postman-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>...</version>
    <configuration>
        <packagesToScan> <!-- optional -->
            <value>net.cpollet</value>
            <!-- ... -->
        </packagesToScan>
        <environments>
            <environment>
                <name>default</name>
                <baseUrl>http://localhost</baseUrl>
                <basicAuth> <!-- optional -->
                    <username>username</username>
                    <password>password</password>
                </basicAuth>
            <environment>
            <!-- ... -->
        <environments>
    </configuration>
    <executions> <!-- optional -->
        <execution>
            <id>generate-postman</id>
            <phase>package</package>
            <goals>
                <goal>generate</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

The <execution> section is optional, as the plugin binds it's generate goal to the package phase.

Build

$ mvn clean install

Tu run the integration tests, use the run-its profile. Make sure you have the newman-assert and rodolpheche/wiremock docker images:

$ cd newman-assert && build.sh && cd ..
$ docker pull rodolpheche/wiremock

Then:

$ mvn clean install -Prun-its 

Release & Deploy

When gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device, executing export GPG_TTY=$(tty) might help.

Validating before tagging

To validate the checks sonatype executes before tagging, update the pom.xml to remove the -SNAPSHOT. Then, execute

$ mvn clean deploy -Prelease

Actual release

$ mvn clean release:clean release:prepare
$ mvn release:perform

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