Sorry if my question gets a bit confusing. I will try my best to explain the situation, and it might be a stupid question as well. (Sorry in both cases)
So, I have a JMETER script where I have to authorize the request using CMS URL(HTTP Sampler). To create the Signature, I need the PATH (URI Path) from my HTTP Request Sampler. If it was only one sampler, I could have hardcoded it, but I have more than fifteen HTTP Samplers where I have to use CMS Authentication.
My question is: Is there a way I could use the $PATH from each sampler in a BeanShell Preprocessor and create an Authorization Signature and then add it to the HeaderManager?
Sorry if it got confusing, but any help would be really great.
Thanks in advance!!!
In case of HTTP Request sampler it would be sampler.getPath()
See HTTPSamplerProxy JavaDoc for information on methods and fields available and How to Use BeanShell: JMeter's Favorite Built-in Component for more information on using JMeter and Java API from scripting test elements.
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OpenAPI client generation module generates client-code(ApiClient-RestTemplate and APISpecificClient which uses ApiClient)
The contract is always strict. Ex: I have to specify in:header in:path in:query for the etc... for API request and response.
My requirement is apart from what the yml-contract says, I need to send additional headers as part of request. This is needed because sometimes engineers expect new-headers as part of their API and they don't update APISpec or Architect decides to ignore common-used-headers(Architect specifies additional headers are mentioned in WIKI).
Simple solution is, as a Engineer I can update the yml-contract and all good to go.
Alternate best solution is, if the ApiClient-APISpecificClient(codegen) accepts a additional header as Map, it solves a lot of problem...
Note1: ApiClient supports addDefaultHeader, but this is wrong. Because value for defaultHeader is specific to each request, so I cannot use this.
Note2: I can create new object of ApiClient/APISpecificClient for each request instead of "Component", this also solves the problem. But I feel it is heavy to create objects.
Any help would be appreciated.
Using RestTemplateInterceptor added additional headers...
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-rest-template-interceptor
Another solution is AOP.
I have a SOAP endpoint and will be having more than 1000 request messages which have different values for the request parameters but same operation of SOAP Message. I want to execute them in a sequence if the previous request that got triggered was 200 OK?
Is there any way to do this without JAVA program? Is there any client that will help me?
I assume you already have some sort of loop in your test case that reads your variable properties from a file or perhaps Excel and feeds them into your SOAP request. Ready API/soapUI Pro gives you this functionality, but for open source soapUI you'll have to write your own Groovy test steps.
Then, you can use a soapUI Compliance, Status and Standards assertion to check you've received a valid or invalid HTTP status code and react accordingly.
Is there any way to do this without JAVA program? Is there any client
that will help me?
After re-reading the question, it seems to me you're not yet using SoapUI, though it has been tagged as a SoapUI question. It happens quite a lot on here where people are askign general SOAP questions, but tag SoapUI. BTW, Craig's answer should be accepted if you are using SoapUI.
In terms of options, you have lots....
Code. You can use Python, C#, Java, Javascript, etc. etc. to create a program that will call your endpoint. Any programming language will have the libraries to call web services. So, if you do know a language, you could use that.
SoapUI. There is a free version, which will allow you to call web services. In your question, you want to call the same service over and over with different parameters. In testing speak, this is a data-driven test. These can be achieved in the free SoapUI, but it is a fiddle. However, the full-licensed version offers data-driven tests out of the box. I use these all the time. Very easy to set-up. If you use SoapUI, then Craig's answer about using Assertions would stop the test if you got a status code other than a 200.
Postman. this is another free tool, which I have used a little. I haven't tried data-driven tests, but I'm sure the docs will tell you if they're supported. If you try Postman, then you ought to look at Danny Dainton's excellent tutorial on GitHub
JMeter. Another free tool. This is primarily used for performance and load testing, but would still meet your needs.
I am trying to create a RESTful web service that accepts JSON arguments and gives out a JSON response.
What I want is to accept HTTP requests made to my URL endpoint.
Something like,
POST /the/endpoint HTTP/1.1
Host: mywebsite.com
{"name":"yourname", "department":"your_department"}
Do a DB read at the backend and give relevant parameters like, say Manager name, salary etc as a JSON object, as the response.
What's the best way to go about it? I was thinking of using Java servlets for this? Is there a better way?
PS - I am just getting started so detailed answers or links to tutorials as to how to implement it would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Yes you can easily do this with Servlets and some Json Libs for Marshalling /unmarshalling the Json Object to Java Object.
You can make use of Json libs like
Jackson ,
Gson etc
But you must know that REST application doesnt end with just handling the request and response , but it needs to take care of other non-functional requirements like
Authentication
Authorization
Security etc
Building this from a scratch from a Servlet is overkill and waste of time when there are ready made frameworks that these things for you
My favorite is Spring MVC 3.0
Check their project site for more details
Just to show you how easy to set up one in Spring MVC , check this below tutorial
Spring 3 REST Tutorial
Pls rate the post if it helps , Cheers.
If you want to go with Java, I suggest that you take a look at JAX-RS... And since REST is a complex topic, here is a url with tons of informations on it. http://code.google.com/p/implementing-rest/
As a complete beginner, I believe the best way to implement a (nearly) RESTful API without having to read a lot is simply to implement the API just using HTML pages and HTML forms with the back-end processing to handle them.
The rules are:
Use <a> tags to provide links to related resources. (navigation)
Use <form> tags to initiate any kind of processing operation on the server. (actions)
You can then make it properly RESTful by using progressive enhancement to add Javascript AJAX requests that perform PUT, PATCH, and DELETE instead of using POST for those three (of course, keeping POST for creating resources where the client doesn't know the resultant URI).
You can then click around and test the API in a web browser! Tools like Selenium can automate this.
If you need to provide JSON, this can be added after the API has been designed and tested, although libraries exist to process HTML or XHTML responses too, so JSON isn't necessarily required for machine readability.
if you are using php with symfony try:https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle this lets you create a real REST full servicer very quick.
Vogella made my day very easy when i started Web services with an super example here with eclipse screen shots ..Have a look here.
Can the REST support in CF10 be used to replace the use of URL Rewrite / ModRewrite for SEO-friendly URL? Write a thin layer that defines the GET and POST method, and <cfinclude> in the correct page?
Or would it tax the server too much and better leave it to the web server to deal with?
Once in CFML, it'd be much easier to be version controlled and maintained.
Thanks
If I understand what you are saying (and perhaps I do not) you would create a handler that would intercept a request, parse out the variables, then request the appropriate page via REST? If that's what you have in mind then I'm not sure I follow what you would gain by this. REST (in general) is more of a generic HTTP API for getting at methods - not so much a page / content paradigm (thought I suppose it could be).
If what you are looking for is to use CF as an rewrite SEO URL handler you can do this now. To use an IIS example, you can create a "custom 404" handler - a CFM page - that gets all the requests that are not tied to a specific document. The handler teases out the variables by parsing through the URL, then "includes" the correct cfm Code or page. That sounds a bit like what you want - but it's not really REST.
Perhaps you are thinking of doing some sort of CFHTTP call where you grab the content you need by constructing the query string from the URL. So if someone loads a url like:
blah.com/productid/550
You could write code like so -
<cfhttp
url="http://blah.com/index.cfm?#listfirst(cgi.script_name,'/')#=#listlast(cgi.script_name,'/')#"/>
<cfoutput>#cfhttp.filecontent#</cfoutput>
While this would do the trick you would be better off using cfinclude rather than this approach. An approach like the one above would actually generate an additional thread per request - one thread for the browser's request and another for the cfhttp request.
Finally I would suggest politely that URL Rewrite (in apache or IIS) is more efficient and more "conventional" and therefore probably a better choice in general.
#Henry
REST is not a replacement for the URL rewriting.
First of all the REST URLs have a format.
http://localhost:8500/rest/App_Name/Rest_Path
"rest" part is mandatory. If you want to change "rest" you can change it in the web.xml (Change the URL Mapping).
App_Name is not mandatory. A server can have a default rest application. For default applications you do not need to specify the AppName. For accessing other (non-default) rest applications, you should specify, the AppName. You can make an application default in the Rest Service registration page in the admin.
Rest_Path identifies the CFC and the function in the CFC that needs to be invoked on the HTTP call.
If these URL format is acceptable, then the URL of these formats can be mapped to a specific function in a CFC. When ever an HTTP call is made to the URL, the corresponding CFFunction will be invoked. By using REST, you are accessing a function in the CFC. It is not possible to access a CFC or a CFM directly in this way. But in the function you can implement whatever you want(Like invoking a CFC, Invoking another CFM etc.).
Does this reply answer your question?
Thanks,
Paul
Even if one could do this, I'd say it's co-opting the wrong tool to do the wrong job. URL rewriting is the web server's job, not the CF server's, and the web server will be a hell of a lot better at it than CF will be. CF's REST interface is for building APIs, not for doing URL rewriting.
If one was to want to handle URL rewriting with CF, then using the 404 handler or onMissingTemplate() handler would be a better fit here, would it not? At least you're using a tool intended for the job (if not the best one).
As for version control... an .htaccess file is just a text file, like a CFML file is. I've not looked too closely at IIS's rewrite module, but can it not use a text file to configure / maintain its rewrites? Obviously Apache can, and we use Helicon's ISAPI Rewrite module which uses an mod_rewrite-compatible .htaccess file.
It seems to me like you're trying to make the developer's job easier by using an approach that would penalise the production performance. "Making the developer's life easier" should never be grounds for compromising the production environment (IMO, obviously).
I am a newbie with ExtJS 4. I am having problems understanding the implmentation for the "/" syntax for the URL in a Rest Proxy.
For example when using a REST type Proxy the URL config in many examples is just "/users".
I'm confused by this and can't seem to understand it's implmentation. I'm expecting to see an actual executable ".php" or such URL which I have used successfully in an Ajax Proxy. In other examples I see "app.php/users". I understand the php file which I expect but the "/users" part I don't understand. I've spent a few hours trying to find the answer for this but nothing I found has defined it for me.
I'm sure the explanation is very simple.
Thank You in Advance.
For the full explanation you should study up on REST.
Something like /users is standard usage for a REST HTTP request, it is not just ExtJS implementation. Specifically to answer your question, the reason no file extension is included is to denote that this is a logical url, i.e. there is not a physical users.xml file necessarily, instead it is dynamically generated using RESTful webservices.
In other words, you would need to set-up a RESTful webservice architecture to use this ExtJS proxy configuration.
The link above and this tutorial on implementing RESTful webservices with Java helped me alot.
EDIT:
I found a better tutorial (I think) here, also showing implementations in something other than Java.