Internet of Things (IoT) Posting data with a REST Client

If you haven’t done so, please install Postman now.

You will now use Postman to do a quick test. Open Postman and enter the parameters below. Be sure to modify the URL with the correct IP address and name you gave your schema.

Click on the Headers tab and enter Content-Type for the header, and application/json for its value.

Click on the Authorization tab, select Basic Auth, enter the values below and click Update Request.

Click on the Body tab, select the raw radio button and JSON (application/json) from the pulldown menu. Enter the text below as the body content.

{"ID":"0", "TEMPERATURE":"22.09", "HUMIDITY":"45.47", "BRIGHTNESS":"27"}

Click Send. If it is successful, you will get a 201 Created response back indicating a successful entry, and you should skip to step 8. If you get an error, see step 7.



If you get an error: Request execution failed due to missing or invalid XSRF token, this is a cross site scripting errors. To correct that, you need to modify the .xsaccess and change prevent_xsrf: true to prevent_xsrf: false and save. You might also notice just a 403 error and if you are sure everything else is correct then check this as well.

Send the POST request again, and you should get a 201 response.


You can modify the values in the POST body and send a few more requests to add a bit more data if you’d like (but it is not required).