using "export-globals"

[gerome12]

Hi matt-ball,

I would like to use the option "export-globals" (https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman#command-line-options)

It's possible to adding this option to your GitHub Action ?

Thanks

Gérôme

[cynicaljoy]

The action supports all of the arguments exposed by the Postman Newman NPM module:

Looking at the documentation, --export-globals is used when executing from the command line:

--export-globals <path>
The path to the file where Newman will output the final global variables file before completing a run.

but, when executing from the JavaScript API, you should be able to use:

options.globals | Postman Global Variables can be optionally passed on to a collection run in form of path to a file or URL. It also accepts variables as an object.

Type: object | string

So, something like the following will work:

- uses: actions/checkout@master
- uses: matt-ball/newman-action@master
  with:
    collection: postman_collection.json
    environment: postman_environment.json
    globals:   
        myProject:
            name: HelloWorld
            color: Yellow

[gerome12]

Hi cynicaljoy,

thanks for your reply

In my case, I have multiple collections and the first one get access tokens which are used by all the others.

My wish is to do something like that :

- uses: actions/checkout@master
- uses: matt-ball/newman-action@master
  with:
    collection: get_access_tokens_collection.json
    environment: postman_environment.json
    export-globals: my_globals_environment.json
- uses: matt-ball/newman-action@master
  with:
    collection: tests_1_collection.json
    environment: postman_environment.json
    globals: my_globals_environment.json
- uses: matt-ball/newman-action@master
  with:
    collection: tests_2_collection.json
    environment: postman_environment.json
    globals: my_globals_environment.json

Is this the right way to go?

[cynicaljoy]

So it looks like in the current state the action doesn't support export-globals but could if the summary.globals was saved to an output on the action.

[yanay-clear]

@gerome12 did you find a decent solution?