Sitecore Experience Commerce Postman API collections in v1 format are not supported by Postman v8 and later


Description

Importing the Postman collections might fail because some Sitecore Experience Commerce Postman API collections are in v1 format, which is not supported by Postman app v8 and later.

Solution

To resolve the issue, convert the affected Postman collections to v2.1.0 as follows:

  1. Download and install Node.js found on this page:
    https://nodejs.org/en/download/

  2. Verify the installation by running the following command in command prompt or Powershell.
    npm -v
    For example,


  3. After verifying Node.js installation, install postman-collection-transformer via Command Prompt or Powershell by running the following:
    npm install -g postman-collection-transformer
  4. Once postman-collection-transformer has been installed, convert all the affected postman collections by running the following in Command Prompt or Powershell:
    postman-collection-transformer convert -i <path to input Postman collection file> -o <path where the output Postman file will be downloaded> -j 1.0.0 -p 2.1.0 -P
    For more details regarding postman-collection-transformer refer to Converting Postman collections from v1 to v2.