FlowWright's REST API has always been well documented, but users could not test it unless they wrote code to make REST API calls. In our latest version, we made several upgrades to the REST API and supporting technologies to help our customers quickly test REST API calls, and we share them below.

First, the FlowWright UI shows the database connection used by the REST API.  You can view the database connection string, along with the rest of the database connection details, under Status Database (as shown in the image below).

The REST API can also be easily accessed from the UI:

REST API documentation and the testing UI will render as follows:

Testing a REST API with authentication.

Let’s test a REST API call that requires authentication.  Navigate to the “User/GetUser” class.

Click the “Try It Out” button to test the REST API call. Then click the “Execute” button to initiate. Provide the FlowWright user credentials (with REST API permissions) to Sign In. 

If the authentication is successful, the following response will be displayed: