Call .post() API-Easy

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Call .post() API-Easy

I'm using API-easy , how do I get this result in _id_user and send the call to .post() thanks. e.g

var APIeasy = require('api-easy'),
    assert  = require('assert');

var _id_user;

var suite = APIeasy.describe('Test User');
suite.use('localhost', 3000)
     .discuss('Test')
     .setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
      .post('/user/authenticate', {data: '{"email":"emailuser@email.com","password":"123456"}')
        .expect('should respond with ID user', function (err, res, body) {
            _id_user = body;    //  I need this result to be sent in the next call .post()
        }).next()
      .post('/user/validate',{ data : _id_user}) // this result always comes null 
        .expect('should respond TRUE', function (_err, _res, _body) {
 }).export(module);

node.js

Answer 1

The right way of dealing with this is to use the before() call to modify your post parameters. You can directly modify the contents of the 'outgoing' request.

var APIeasy = require('api-easy'),
    assert  = require('assert');

var suite = APIeasy.describe('Test User');
suite.use('localhost', 3000)
     .discuss('Test')
     .setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
      .post('/user/authenticate', {data: '{"email":"emailuser@email.com","password":"123456"}')
        .expect('should respond with ID user', function (err, res, body) {
            suite.before('setUserId', function(outgoing) {
                //use outgoing.body for post requests and outgoing.uri for get requests
                outgoing.body = outgoing.body.replace('_ID_USER',body);
                return outgoing;
            });    

        }).next()
      .post('/user/validate',{ data : '_ID_USER'}) 
        .expect('should respond TRUE', function (_err, _res, _body) {
            //you can unbefore() here if you need it
            suite.unbefore('setUserId');
 }).export(module);

Answer 2

That's because of asynchronous nature of callback function. Do the second post inside the callback function, i.e. after _id_user=body;