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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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Properties

Name Type Description
id string The environment's unique identifier.
name string The environment name as displayed in the Postman interface.
values array The environment variables.
owner string The user ID of the environment owner.
uid string The environment's UID in the format {ownerId}-{environmentId}.
createdAt string The date and time when the environment was created.
updatedAt string The date and time when the environment was last updated.
isPublic boolean Whether the environment is publicly accessible.
_postman_exported_at string Timestamp of when the environment was exported.
_postman_exported_using string The Postman version used to export the environment.
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JSON Schema

postman-environment-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$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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