I am able to test the web services by setting Content-Type : "application/json" and passing parameters or composing body, for ex: {"name":"test"}, using fiddler. But, how to compose request for XML content type for a POST method.
Presumably, you'd set the Content-Type to application/xml and use XML to format the request body. e.g. test although the format would depend on what the API expects.
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While from postman, its always successful and returning json object , but from rest assured , its returning html page. Is there something I can do about it? I am using testNG and theses static imports apis: io.restassured.RestAssured.* io.restassured.matcher.RestAssuredMatchers.* org.hamcrest.Matchers.*
Make sure RestAssured is adding an appropriate Accept header, like this:
Accept: application/json
This is part of content negotiation.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Content_negotiation
has a good overview.
I am using Scala Akka HTTP to make an API call that requires a custom Content-Type (e.g. application/vnd+company.category+json). The API I am trying to use requires this content type in the header. Per Akka HTTP documentation, Content-Type can't be set explicitly into the headers of the HTTP request and must be set using the contentType property of the HttpEntity. I'm not sure what Akka does to the contentType set in the HttpEntity, but it is obviously not appearing in the headers sequence of the HTTP message (as defined here: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-stream-and-http-experimental/1.0/scala/http/common/http-model.html). As a result, I consistently get Error 415: SRVE0295E, which translates to "415 Unsupported Media Type. The request entity has a media type which the server or resource does not support." I tried the API via curl with -H Content-Type of the same custom content type I have been using with Akka HTTP and I get a success response. Has anyone ever run into a similar problem?
As it turns out, the API I am consuming has multiple variants of the custom Content-Type, each specific to the API endpoint to be consumed. So this is not an Akka HTTP issue.
If you have a REST service that accepts multiple formats:
JSON
XML
HTML form data
Is there a widely accepted 'default' Content Type or:
You pick it yourself based on the most frequent / common use case
Don't accept a missing content type, require it explicitly by consumer
For example, according to W3C the default content type for POST via HTML, is application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
I strongly suggest that a server should reject a request that has a missing or inappropriate Content-Type header. RFC 7231 Has an explicit code for such:
6.5.13. 415 Unsupported Media Type
The 415 (Unsupported Media Type) status code indicates that the
origin server is refusing to service the request because the payload
is in a format not supported by this method on the target resource.
The format problem might be due to the request's indicated
Content-Type or Content-Encoding, or as a result of inspecting the
data directly.
Even though it doesn't explicitly mention a missing Content-Type, this is the accepted practice. See: HTTP status code for unaccepted Content-Type in request
Just as you should send the content-type in a response, you should also expect to have a content-type in the request.
Also, it's quite common to expect the correct content-type, see Jira REST API for instance:
Make sure the content type in the request is set to 'application/json', as shown in the example.
Or Twilio, where they have a list of accepted content-type and say:
If the content-type header does not match the media, Twilio will reject the request.
And I'm pretty sure that also the Outlook Mail REST API needs it to be correctly set.
So, yes, I'd say:"Don't accept a missing content type".
I developed a rest server, and I put it to run in localhost, and I'm trying to perform tests with JMeter, sending requests posts and gets (depends of called method).
I already send to Rest server and got result with JMeter in simple post requests, get requests, sending files with post, and sending a Json with post.
But I don't know how to send a Form-UrlEncoded object to server. My Rest server consumes application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and I need to send 3 String parameters.
There's some way to set the MimeType for every parameter and perform the test ?
I'm using Jmeter 2.7
[Update]
I solved this by disabling the option:
use multipart/form-data for post
And enabling:
redirect automatically
Instead of:
follow redirect
The parameters I put normally in the table "Send parameters with the Request" with each respective names.
For sending form parameters as application/x-www-form-urlencoded, add a header parameter Content-Type with value application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
The following steps is aplicable for Jmeter 2.3.4
Add a HTTP Header Manager under your http Request.
Add new parameter to HTTP Header Manager with name Content-Type and value application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Uncheck "Use multipart/form-data for HTTP POST" of HTTP request.
Uncheck "Encode?" of each request parameter(not necessary).
kept "Content Encode:" text box of HTTP request as empty.
This won't work for PUT request.
For put request add parameters as path parameter and set Content-Type header then Jmeter will do by itself.
Here's the solution for HTTP POST with x-www-form-urlencoded testing with jmeter. You just folllow like these.
Go to Thread Group -> Add listener -> Views Result in table, View result Tree. To see the process of responding.
Have you tried to save your test using BadBoy or JMeter Proxy to see what your application actually sends?
To see what happens under the hood you can also use FireBug if you're using FireFox or Ctrl+Shift+i if you're on Chrome.
IllegalCharsetNameException will go immediately only after you will add the required content-type in HTTP Header Manager for HTTP request .
Hope this helps.
followed exact steps mentioned i still see an exception thrown
Response code: Non HTTP response code: java.nio.charset.IllegalCharsetNameException
Response message: Non HTTP response message: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
java.nio.charset.IllegalCharsetNameException: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
at java.nio.charset.Charset.checkName(Charset.java:315)
at java.nio.charset.Charset.lookup2(Charset.java:484)
at java.nio.charset.Charset.lookup(Charset.java:464)
at java.nio.charset.Charset.forName(Charset.java:528)
at org.apache.http.entity.ContentType.create(ContentType.java:210)
at org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity.<init>(StringEntity.java:116)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Impl.sendPostData(HTTPHC4Impl.java:1340)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Impl.handleMethod(HTTPHC4Impl.java:592)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Impl.sample(HTTPHC4Impl.java:409)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerProxy.sample(HTTPSamplerProxy.java:74)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1166)
at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1155)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.executeSamplePackage(JMeterThread.java:475)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.processSampler(JMeterThread.java:418)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:249)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
I'm working on a REST API using the FOSRestBundle and I'd like to be able to use the same URL for returning HTML and JSON depending on the request Accept header; i.e. if you call the URL directly from a browser (Accept : text/html etc) HTML is returned from a twig file, if you are making an AJAX request (Accept : application/JSON etc), JSON is returned using the FOSRestBundle.
Currently I can get this to work by throwing a small if statement at the top of each function to check the request accept header, if it's asking for HTML it returns the twig file, if it's asking for JSON it hits the service.
You should rather send "Accept" header with your requests. Read content negotiation (“Accept” HTTP header) based routing in symfony2.0 and Format listener.
The request scope does not exist when run in command line mode, I had to remove request from each constructor and the problem disappeared.