6: Email Confirmations

Activity 9: Testing the Complete User Registration and Activation Workflow

Solution

1. We will first register a new user through Postman. Click on the Collections tab and choose the POST UserList request.
2. Select the Body tab and then select the raw radio button and choose JSON (application/json) from the drop-down list.
3. Put in the following user details (in JSON format) in the Body field. Change the username and password to the appropriate one:

   {
       "username": "john",
       "email": "[e-mail]",
       "password": "Kwq2z5"
   }

4. Send the request. You should see the following output:

   Figure 6.10: Registering a user through Postman

   You should see the new user details (ID = 4) in the response, with HTTP status 201 OK. That means the new user was created successfully in the backend.

5. Log in through the API and click on...