Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

Testing with Postman

Okay, let's get practical now! In this section, we want to test our previously created user management service (Chapter 7). If you have not followed along with the chapter, go ahead and grab the source files from the GitHub repository for this chapter:

1. Start your service and create a user in our service by executing the following command:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \--data '{"email": "[e-mail]","password": "test123"}' \http://localhost:8080/v1/users/register

Exchange [e-mail] for your own personal email, so you can see an email coming in. The console should show you the following:

{"status":"success","user":{"id":10,"email":"[e-mail]", "addresses":[]}}

Now we have a user ...