How can I find response cookie names in Postman tests?

Question

Is there a way to retrieve the response cookie names in a Postman test? I can get values with postman.getResponseCookie("<COOKIENAME>").value. However, based on differing scenarios, the cookiename changes.

Does this answer your question? [Get and store the value of a cookie using Postman](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49259402/get-and-store-the-value-of-a-cookie-using-postman) — BigButovskyi, Sep 08 '21 at 19:08

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 21 '17 at 21:05

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Got it! I evaluated responseCookies to determine the cookie name.

answered Apr 21 '17 at 21:05

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could you elaborate a bit more? – Alexandre Dumont Oct 16 '17 at 22:59
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That I know, and its already stated in the question text. How do you get the cookies names? – Alexandre Dumont Oct 18 '17 at 05:21
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console.log(responseCookies); – Torin Finnemann Feb 27 '18 at 08:29

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '19 at 14:29

You can check for a specific cookie in a test like this:

pm.test("Response contains a JSESSIONID cookie", function() {
    pm.expect(pm.cookies.has('JSESSIONID')).to.be.true;
});

This works for me in Postman v7.3.6 without the Postman interceptor turned on.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 28 '23 at 09:52

If you are looking for response cookie, and not for current cookie, better check it from response header (set-cookie).

Example

pm.test('Response has correct cookie', function () {
    // Get response cookies from header.
    // Response can have multiple set-cookie headers.
    // Variable i is an Header object which has property key and value.
    const cookies = pm.response.headers.filter((i) => i.key === 'set-cookie');
    // Make sure that at least have 1 set-cookie header.
    pm.expect(cookies).to.not.have.lengthOf(0);
    // Get cookie value and extract the name: (position 0 before =).
    const cookieValues = cookies.map((i) => i.value.split('=')[0]);
    // Make sure the length is the same.
    pm.expect(cookieValues.length).to.equal(cookies.length);
    // Make sure to have specific cookie name.
    pm.expect(cookieValues).to.includes('somecookiename');
    pm.expect(cookieValues).to.includes('JSESSIONID');
  });

References: Postman Response, Header and HeaderList documentation.

How can I find response cookie names in Postman tests?

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