Check property of JSON response in Postman

06 Mar

In the Tests section of any request you can check if the JSON response contains or doesn’t contain a specific property like this: // Verify that header object is NOT returned pm.test(“Verify that header:{…} object is NOT returned”, function () {  pm.expect(pm.response.json()).to.not.have.property(‘header’); }); // Verify that data object is returned pm.test(“Verify that data:{…} object is returned”, function () {  pm.expect(pm.response.json()).to.have.property(‘data’); …

How to see available disk space in Linux

02 Mar

Playing around with a Raspberry PI I came to need this info. Here is the command: df -h You should see something similar to this: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 26G 6.5G 18G 27% / devtmpfs 334M 0 334M 0% /dev tmpfs 463M 0 463M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 463M 6.4M 456M 2% /run …

How to know which Linux version you are running

16 Feb

Easy peasy! Run the following command in a Terminal: lsb_release -a You should see something similar to this: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Raspbian Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Release: 10 Codename: buster

How to reset Raspbian 10 (Buster) password on Raspberry PI 4

16 Feb

Hey! if you are reading this chances are you forgot the password to your Raspberry PI. Worry not though here is how to reset it on Raspbian 10 Buster using a Raspberry PI 4, I don’t really think the model of Raspberry PI matters but it’s just to give you a better idea of my environment. First start your Raspberry …

How to delete a collection of IDs in POSTMAN

20 Sep

Today I had to delete several objects that I created when testing an API. It was very easy to click the Send button and create a bunch of stuff but now I have to clean the DB. I am using Postman as testing tool and I chose to execute the following code in the Pre-request Script of my test. The …

How to delete a WordPress.com website

10 Mar

If you are like me and you have a new hosting service for your blogs you may know that after moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org you may want to delete that old website. Here is how to do it. 1- Open your web browser and navigate to the blog you want to delete, in my case https://kryptosit.wordpress.com 2- Click on …

Base64 URL Safe Encoding / Decoding (RFC-7515)

25 May

A few days back I was required to encode some string in base 64 URL safe. After some research I found that there are several variants of base 64. The one implemented in the code below corresponds to RFC-7515. Here is the code: function encodeBase64Url(str) { let s = new Buffer(str).toString(‘base64’); // Regular base64 encoder s = s.replace(‘=’, ”); // …

How to remove documents from a capped collection in MongoDB

14 Mar

You can’t remove one or all documents from a capped collection in MongoDB. BUT! you can drop the collection! Execute the following command: db.getCollection(‘myCollection’).drop() The result for me is: true There you go, quick and easy. Sources https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/capped-collections/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33048282/how-to-remove-a-document-from-the-capped-collection

How to count documents of a collection in MongoDB

13 Mar

Today, I had to do this at work. turns out it is very easy. I am using Robomongo 1.0-RC1. I just double click on the collection that I want, in this case knives and I just execute the following query: db.getCollection(‘knives’).count() The result in my case is: 1911 Hope it helps! Sources https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/method/db.collection.count/

How to create a strong password?

19 Feb

There are a few things you can do to create a strong password that will protect your account from being compromised. Use lower case, upper case, numbers, and symbols (check list of valid symbols, this could vary depending on the website / system) Use at least 12 chars to allow a wide key space Don’t use common words or easy-to-guess …