Salesforce REST API Testing Using POSTMAN

This article describes "Username-Password OAuth flow" testing using POSTMAN

It's just 2 step process.

STEP 1: Getting Access Token(aka SessionId)

1. URL: https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token

2. Click on BODY

3. Choose "form-data"

4.Key value pairs as below 

KEY Value

username org2@salesforce.com

password 9989008211a

grant_type password

client_id 3MVG9d8..z.hDcPK1

client_secret B2B9A3A6841E77

5. Click on "send" button, you will receive the "Access Token".

STEP 2: Creating a record using the POST method

URL: https://integrationorg-dev-ed.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v43.0/sobjects/Account/

Header:

------

Key : Authorization

Value : Bearer 00D7F000005lVFt!AQQA

Key : Content-Type

Value : application/json

Body:(choose "Raw")

------------------

{

  "Name" : "hello REST POST call"

}

Possible errors:

{
    "error": "unsupported_grant_type",
    "error_description": "grant type not supported"
}
1. a. In Step 1, If URL is "HTTP" instead of "HTTPS" (Or)
b. You might be passing the credentials in Header instead of Body.(or)
c. For Password, value should be "Password+SecurityToken".

2. In Step 2, If URL is "HTTP" instead of "HTTPS"
[
    {
        "message": "HTTPS Required",
        "errorCode": "UNSUPPORTED_CLIENT"
    }
]

3.In Step 2, If URL is "https://login.salesforce.com/services/data/v43.0/sobjects/Account/"  instead of " https://integrationorg-dev-ed.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v43.0/sobjects/Account/"
[
    {
        "errorCode": "URL_NOT_RESET",
        "message": "Destination URL not reset. The URL returned from login must be set"
    }
]

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