Postman Environment
A Postman environment containing a set of key-value variable pairs that can be used across requests and collections. Environments enable you to scope your work to different contexts such as development, staging, and production.
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{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://postman.com/schemas/postman/environment.json",
"title": "Postman Environment",
"description": "A Postman environment containing a set of key-value variable pairs that can be used across requests and collections. Environments enable you to scope your work to different contexts such as development, staging, and production.",
"type": "object",
"required": ["id", "name", "values"],
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The environment's unique identifier."
},
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The environment name as displayed in the Postman interface."
},
"values": {
"type": "array",
"description": "The environment variables.",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/EnvironmentVariable"
}
},
"owner": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The user ID of the environment owner."
},
"uid": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The environment's UID in the format {ownerId}-{environmentId}.",
"pattern": "^[0-9]+-[a-zA-Z0-9-]+$"
},
"createdAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"description": "The date and time when the environment was created."
},
"updatedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"description": "The date and time when the environment was last updated."
},
"isPublic": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Whether the environment is publicly accessible."
},
"_postman_exported_at": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"description": "Timestamp of when the environment was exported."
},
"_postman_exported_using": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The Postman version used to export the environment."
}
},
"$defs": {
"EnvironmentVariable": {
"type": "object",
"description": "A key-value variable within the environment.",
"required": ["key"],
"properties": {
"key": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The variable name used for substitution in requests."
},
"value": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The current value of the variable. For secret type variables, this may be masked."
},
"type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["default", "secret"],
"description": "The variable type. Secret variables are masked in the UI and API responses.",
"default": "default"
},
"enabled": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Whether the variable is active. Disabled variables are not substituted in requests.",
"default": true
},
"description": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A description of what the variable is used for."
}
}
}
}
}
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