? Working with API Responses in Postman

? Quick Overview

When you send an API request in Postman, the server sends back a response. Understanding the response body, headers, status codes, and response time is essential for debugging, testing, and validating APIs.

? Key Concepts

• Response Body – Actual data returned by the API
• Response Headers – Metadata about the response
• Status Code – Result of the request
• Response Time – Time taken to get a response

? Syntax / Theory

In Postman, every API response is divided into multiple tabs. Each tab provides specific information about how the server handled your request.

? Code Example(s)

// Sample JSON response returned from an API
{
  "id": 101,
  "name": "Laptop",
  "price": 55000,
  "inStock": true
}

? Live Output / Explanation

? Interactive Example

Send a GET request to a public API such as:

// Public API endpoint used for testing responses
https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1

Observe the response body, headers, status code, and response time directly in Postman.

? Use Cases

• Validating API responses during development
• Debugging incorrect server behavior
• Checking performance using response time
• Automated testing using response values