[Postman] Send an array as form-data

[Postman] Send an array as form-data

💭 What is Postman?

• 🧐 Postman is an application used for API testing. You can test various types of HTTP requests (POST, GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE) . Please refer to Postman official website for more details.
  

1. Send an array as form-data in Postman

• Suffix your variable’s name with squared brackets [ ]
• ex) array[index]

Key	Value
score[0]	10
score[1]	7
score[2]	8

Check the data packet by 📋 < Node.js code >

console.log(req.body.score);

📋 < Result >

[10, 7, 8]

2. Send an array of dictionaries as form-data

• ex) array[index][key]

Key	Value
score[0][math]	98
score[0][physics]	78
score[0][chemistry]	89
score[1][math]	72
score[1][physics]	30
score[1][chemistry]	90

📋 < Result >

"score": [
    {
        "math": 98,
        "physics": 78,
        "chemistry": 89,
    },
    {
        "math": 72,
        "physics": 30,
        "chemistry": 90,
    }
]

Reference:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12756688/is-it-possible-to-send-an-array-with-the-postman-chrome-extension