Newman: Can we skip a particular network request from execution, in a collection? postman.setNextRequest is to swich to some request. Byt here I need to skip particular request from execution.

[Freakishmahesh]

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2. OS details (type, version, and architecture):
3. Are you using Newman as a library, or via the CLI?
4. Did you encounter this recently, or has this bug always been there:
5. Expected behaviour:
6. Command / script used to run Newman:
7. Sample collection, and auxilliary files (minus the sensitive details):
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[kunagpal]

Hey @Freakishmahesh, postman.setNextRequest can help achieve request skipping as well. Consider the following workflow:

1. A collection has three requests, A, B, and C.
2. You decide to skip request B, say. (Or any intermediate lying request, for that matter).
3. The test script of request A would include a postman.setNextRequest("C");.
4. Thus, request B would never be run.

This will not work if you wish to skip the first / last request in a collection, however.

[kunagpal]

@Freakishmahesh How did this go for you? :thinking:

[Freakishmahesh]

@kunagpal Thank you for words. As you said, cannot skip first/last in a collection. Even if setNextRequest("C"), I cannot see anywhere in the reports that Request B has skipped :(

[kunagpal]

That's odd. How exactly did you use postman.setNextRequest? Please check out the following example collection in Newman, and the Postman collection runner:

{
    "variables": [],
    "info": {
        "name": "skipped-requests",
        "_postman_id": "3ae56cc9-f7dd-f70d-f1c0-45d19fbf32e3",
        "description": "",
        "schema": "https://schema.getpostman.com/json/collection/v2.0.0/collection.json"
    },
    "item": [
        {
            "name": "A",
            "event": [
                {
                    "listen": "test",
                    "script": {
                        "type": "text/javascript",
                        "exec": [
                            "tests[\"Status code is 200\"] = responseCode.code === 200;",
                            "postman.setNextRequest(\"C\");"
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ],
            "request": {
                "url": "https://echo.getpostman.com/get?val=a",
                "method": "GET",
                "header": [],
                "body": {
                    "mode": "formdata",
                    "formdata": []
                },
                "description": "This request always runs first"
            },
            "response": []
        },
        {
            "name": "B",
            "event": [
                {
                    "listen": "test",
                    "script": {
                        "type": "text/javascript",
                        "exec": [
                            "tests[\"Status code is 200\"] = responseCode.code === 200;"
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ],
            "request": {
                "url": "https://echo.getpostman.com/get?val=b",
                "method": "GET",
                "header": [],
                "body": {
                    "mode": "formdata",
                    "formdata": []
                },
                "description": "This request is always skipped in the collection runner / Newman"
            },
            "response": []
        },
        {
            "name": "C",
            "event": [
                {
                    "listen": "test",
                    "script": {
                        "type": "text/javascript",
                        "exec": [
                            "tests[\"Status code is 200\"] = responseCode.code === 200;"
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ],
            "request": {
                "url": "https://echo.getpostman.com/get?val=c",
                "method": "GET",
                "header": [],
                "body": {
                    "mode": "formdata",
                    "formdata": []
                },
                "description": "This request always runs last"
            },
            "response": []
        }
    ]
}

[Freakishmahesh]

I didn't see information about skipped requests details in the command prompt summary . What do I expect is to have, requests count and names of skipped requests.
┌─────────────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ │ executed │ failed │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ iterations │ 1 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ requests │ 6 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ test-scripts │ 6 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ prerequest-scripts │ 0 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ assertions │ 5 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┤
│ total run duration: 15s │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ total data received: 3.45KB (approx) │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ average response time: 2.3s │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

[kunagpal]

@Freakishmahesh Well, this would be a good addition to Newman, thanks for bringing this up! :+1:

[hkgill]

+1

[jayanthktn]

I don't want to run request C.
How can i do that ?
Req : A, B and C
@kunagpal

[kunagpal]

@jayanthktn In the test script of request B, you can add the following statement:

postman.setNextRequest(null);

[jayanthktn]

Thanks @kunagpal

[shamasis]

This will be taken up as part of execution control support in scripts

[qb-sneha]

How to skip the execution of request A ?

[zMacu]

I need to skip request A and B for de 2nd iteration. How can I do it? Please help

[SumaVeeranna]

Is there a way to skip Req A and Req B for the 2nd iteration and only execute Req C ?

[remy90]

This will be taken up as part of execution control support in scripts

Is there an issue reference that can be shared here to track for support for this feature?