How to parametrize UUID in upload XML-attachment in Jmeter? - soap

I need to make stress test with method POST (SOAP API). I tried to use function ${_UUID} to make UUID like abec119d-2d8e-4705-a994-f7c326967bnn and send XML code in body data of HTTP request, but it fails with response
500 (Invalid Security Header)
So, my question is - is it possible, to randomize UUID in uploading XML file or how can I make it?

Invalid Security Header message indicates that the contents of your wsse:Security header is malformed.
Without seeing the header itself it's hard to say what's wrong exactly, most probably you're sending a hard-coded timestamp which in the past hence server doesn't accept it. Also it could be that the signature is required and again your hard-coded signature is not accepted.
I would recommend installing WS Security for SOAP plugin using JMeter Plugins Manager
and once you perform the necessary configuration it should generate the "good" header so your SOAP request will be accepted.

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REST API Testing with Citrus/Cucumber

I'm piloting use of Cucumber for functional/integration testing within my development organization and have been using Citrus with the standard glue it provides for API testing. The hurdle I've encountered is how to dynamically change the REST URL given variables for a scenario. The capability seems to exist in the Java DSL but is not exposed in the Cucumber steps. I can configure the citrus-http:client with placeholders for system properties but these obviously need to be resolved when the application context is loaded by Spring. What I'd like to be able to do in my Background message definition is something like:
Given message todoListRequest
And <todoListRequest> header Content-Type is "application/json"
And <todoListRequest> header Accept is "application/json"
And <todoListRequest> uri is "/todo/${item-number}"
and then in a Scenario:
Scenario: Gets expected item for specified item number
Given variables
| item-number | 3 |
When <todoListClient> sends message <todoListRequest>
Then <todoListClient> should receive message <todoListResponse>
The service hostname and port could still be configured in the application context and the constructed URI appended to that value to create the target of the method (GET in this case, though I didn't specify and maybe that is something else that needs to be added?). Does that seem reasonable? Obviously, I could write my own glue for this but I wanted to see if there was an out of the box provided capability for what seems like a pretty obvious REST scenario before going that route. I understand the Cucumber integration is fairly recent (as of 2.6?) so it might still be maturing. This is an area where I would be interested in helping if that is welcome...
Thanks
You can use the Citrus internal message headers here:
And <todoListRequest> header citrus_http_method is "POST"
And <todoListRequest> header citrus_http_request_uri is "/todo/${item-number}"
The Citrus http client will read these special headers and remove those automatically before message is sent.
Edit: Since Citrus 2.7.1 there is a default REST Cucumber step API that provides brilliant access to sending and receiving messages over Http. So you can write
Given Content-Type: application/json
And Accept: application/json
When send POST /todo/${item-number}
Then receive status 200 OK
Read more about this here: http://www.citrusframework.org/reference/html/cucumber.html#http-steps

Cloudinary Error: "Missing required parameter - file" via REST API

I'm just getting started with Cloudinary, and I'm attempting to Uploading with a direct call to the API. Using the DHC REST Client (chrome extension), I put my request together per the instructions found here at Creating API authentication signatures. Here's a screenshot of that request and response.
I also tried...
adding quotes around all values except timestamp as shown in the example
making the request a multi-part request and attaching the image to the body as a "file"
deleting timestamp, api_key, and signature and instead replacing them with upload_preset to try and upload an unsigned image (yes, I created the preset)
And finally, I did try adding public_id even though it says it would assign one if not provided.
In all cases, I get the same error response... Missing required parameter - file
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?
Ok, figured it out. These name/value pairs need to be added to the body of the request rather than the header. Here's what that would look like in the DHC client. Note that the upload_preset will not work for you... I only created it to test with. Also note that doing a signed request is accomplished the same way but with different parameters.

Using JSON Search Queries with a GET request in JMeter

My org is trying to use JMeter as part of a test automation suite to test some back end REST APIs. Currently one of them supports using JSON queries as a way to get filtered results back from a GET request.
We are using the JMeter UI to create these tests and since all the other API calls work under the HttpClient3.1 HTTP Request implementation that is the implementation that I am currently using to get this to work. With this implementation I get the following when looking at the failure in the results tree (response data portion) I have made the error slightly more generic to protect some IP:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid uri 'https://server:port/restservice/v1/users?firstname_query={"in":["User1FirstName","User2FirstName"]}': Invalid query
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.(HttpMethodBase.java:222)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod.(GetMethod.java:89)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC3Impl.sample(HTTPHC3Impl.java:229)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerProxy.sample(HTTPSamplerProxy.java:74)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1146)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1135)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.process_sampler(JMeterThread.java:434)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:261)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
I have also tried the same request using the Java implementation and get a similar result.
If anyone has any ideas or if you need more information let me know and thank you again in advance for any help you may be able to provide.
Your HTTP Request configuration is a little bit incorrect. JSON entities contain braces {} which are not allowed in URLs so you need to encode them.
Configure your HTTP Request sampler like:
Make sure "Encode" box is ticked.
And this way you will be able to send JSON with HTTP GET Requests. You can use View Results Tree listener to inspect request and response details:
You might also need to add HTTP Header Manager to your Test Plan and configure it to send Content-Type header with the value of application/json. See Testing SOAP/REST Web Services Using JMeter article for more details on properly configuring JMeter for testing REST APIs.

Is it possible to change/modify properties of a CR using OSLC_CM?

Is it possible to modify a property of a change request by using the OSLC-CM REST API of a change management system. The system that I'm trying to achieve that is Rational Change.
I can browse and query via the REST API, but to modify anything I need to resort to command line which is rather slow.
Is there a way?
BR,
Pawel
To update resources using the OSLC-CM REST API you simply just can use HTTP PUT. In order to do this, you'll first need the URL of the Change Request.
The steps to achieve this (using any HTTP client) are:
acquire URL for Change Request (usually done by query, or stored reference, etc)
Perform an HTTP GET on that URL, specifying a format for use in editing. This is done using 'Accept' header, some typical values would be 'application/xml', 'application/json' or 'application/rdf+xml'.
Note, it is a good idea to set the header 'OSLC-Core-Verson: 2.0' as well to ensure you are working with the 2.0 formats.
Once you have fetched the resource, modify the property to the value you want.
Using HTTP PUT, send the modified resource in the content body to the same URL you fetched the resource from.
Additionally you will most likely need to pass along some additional headers to help the server detect any possible conflict.
You should get back a 200 (OK) or 204 (No content) response on success.
An optimization would be to do the same steps as above but only request the properties of interest and only send them by using the selective properties feature of OSLC.
So I've finally got it working with some help from googlegroups
To recap what I've done so that someone else might benefit too (I really have searched for it and the IBM documentation is as in most of the cases not helping):
So to modify PR/CR' implement_actual_effort attribute on the Rational Change server the following procedure was successful (using Firefox REST plugin):
1. In Headers set: Accept to application/xml, Content-Type to application/xml
Put the oslc address of the cr i URL in my case it was:
http://[IP:PORT]/change/oslc/db/[DB hex ID]/role/User/cr/[web_encoded_name_of_the_CR]?oslc_cm.properties=change:implement_actual_effort
(note in browser http://[IP:PORT]/change/oslc/db/[DB hex ID]/role/User/cr/[web_encoded_name_of_the_CR] will open change page of the CR/PR)
In REST client set Method to GET and press SEND
Click on the Response Body (RAW), copy xml Body
Change Method to PUT, change the value of the attribute (in the xml in Body window)
Press SEND
Attribute should have been changed right now, and the response should be similiar to what you've sent, with the attribute showing the change.
Note that to change an attribute (called property from oslc point of view) one has to provide ?oslc_cm.properties=[properties delimited with comma]
and in the request body xml the same properties have to be present, if I remember correctly if the property isn't mentioned in the xml it will be set to default
I hope this helps someone
BR,
Pawel

How do I write a WSDL file to accept arbitrary SOAP Headers?

I have a client that wants to send a large number of SOAP Header fields to my web service. The only thing I am expected to do with these values is reflect them back.
What is the proper way to handle this? They would like me to define each of them in the WSDL, but they are quite specific and will have no meaning to any other clients.
I have some code that simply intercepts the request and copies the headers back onto the response, but I don't know how to handle this in the WSDL. Is it legitimate to simply leave them out yet? Or a generic way to say "send me anything and I'll send it back"?
At least in WSDL 1.1, it isn't required to list all the headers in the WSDL file:
It is not necessary to exhaustively list all headers that appear in the SOAP Envelope using soap:header. For example, extensions (see section 2.1.3) to WSDL may imply specific headers should be added to the actual payload and it is not required to list those headers here.
I can't find the corresponding section in the WSDL 2.0 spec, but I don't think this would have changed.