Hey Folks,
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to upload a file to Wia via postman. Postman is the only complete API development environment, for API developers, used by more than 5 million developers and 100000 companies worldwide. Postman makes working with APIs faster and easier by supporting developers at every stage of their workflow, and is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. With postman, you can easily test any photo based flow you may have.
if you haven't already, you'll need to have a device setup with Wia and obtain a device secret key for the device, a tutorial showing you how to complete is here.
DOWNLOADING POSTMAN
To download postman, click here and follow the steps for you chosen platform.
Uploading your file
- Open the postman app and enter the url:
https://api.wia.io/v1/events
- Click
POST
as the type of http request - In the
Authorization
tab, click the drop for type and set it toBearer Token
- Add your device secret key you obtained earlier in the right hand side of the screen
Now in the body
tab:
- Click on form data radio button
- Add a name key and enter name of you event ( I'm calling mine
photo
as i'm uploading a photo) - Add a file key and and the hover to the end of key box to select file instead of text.
- A
Choose Files
tab will be added to the value section adjacent, this is where you can choose your file
Click on the blue Send
button and head to your wia debugger to see the output.