Send POST requests

This section describes how to use a POST request to send data to an API to create a resource, and then assert that the call is successful.

Before sending a POST request, create a payload, that is data used to create a resource:

1. Enter the following values into the cell range A1:B2:

   	A	B
   1	first_name	last_name
   2	John	Doe

2. In cell C1, use the following formula to create a frame from the values in the range A1:B2:

   =FRAME(A1:B2)

   

3. In an empty cell, use the following formula to create a JSON string from the frame:

   =JSON(C1)

   

Send the request and verify the response as follows:

1. In an empty cell, enter the POST() function with the URL "https://reqres.in/api/users" as the first argument and the address of the cell containing the JSON string as the second argument.

   After a while, the POST() function returns a response in the form of a frame.

2. Open the frame by selecting the cell and pressing Shift + Enter.

   Make sure that the nested spreadsheet that opens contains a nested spreadsheet with a date under createdAt, which for this particular REST API service means that the call is successful.