exercise3.md

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Exercise 3: Browsing the Repository with Postman

1. Use Postman to load the REST API landing page

{{site.restService}}

You will see some HTML text. Postman will not render the HAL Browser.

2. Communities

2a. Use Postman to list all communities

api/core/communities

Note that the "Pretty" view will allow you to expand and collapse the JSON data that is returned.

At the bottom of the return object, you will see a count of the number of objects that was returned. Collapse items in the return object to help locate this field.

2b. Use Postman to list all communities

api/core/communities/search/top

3. Collections

3a. Use Postman to list all collections

api/core/collections

• How many collections exist?
• How many collections were returned?

3b. Add a size parameter in postman to change the page size

Note the change in results.

3c. Add a page and size parameter in postman to navigate to a different page of results.

Note the change in results.

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