Everytime I am testing postman collection ,I need to change the authorization token under header manually followed by exporting the collection again and running through newman.
Is there any way , instead of giving here, I can give it in a CSV file which is being used as test data file. which would reduce the efforts of changing code every time.
Please suggest.
Yes you can, in your csv file, add one more column - name as "AT"
and mention that reference AT in your request as in the following picture.
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When I fetch data from this endpoint http://blog.local/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?page=1 I get a JSON object.
When I add the _embed param,http://blog.local/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?page=1&_embed, I get an image, no JSON.
According to the Wordpress documentation, when you pass the _embed parameter, you are supposed to get extra usefull data included in the response - here
I just get an actual JPG image returned.
Has anyone seen this before or know what the problem could be? I have to resort to adding custom endpoint to just get extra data back.
Okay so it turns out that a plugin I'm using to create fake posts (FakePress) for testing was causing the issue. Don't know how but disabling fixes the problem.
I did create a simple testcase in JMeter.
Open a form and all it's content (css, images etc) :
GET /
GET /css/site.css
GET /favicon.ico
GET /fonts/specific-fonts.woff
GET /images/banner.png
Wait a little...
Post the values
POST /
Receive the "Thank You" page.
- GET /thanks
In the response on the first GET is a hidden input field which contains a token. This token needs to be included in the POST as well.
Now I use the "Regular Expression Extractor" of JMeter to get the token from the response. So far, so good.
Then, after retreiving all the other contents I create the POST message, using the variable name in the RegExp-Extractor in the value field of the token parameter.
But... when executing the testcase it fills in the default value given and not the actual value of the token.
So... first step in debugging this issue was to add a dummy-HTTP-GET request directly after I get the token. In this GET request I also add the token parameter with the token variable as value, but now I can easily check the parameter by looking at the access-log on my webserver.
In this case... the URL looks promising. It contains the actual token value in the GET, but it still uses the default value in the POST.
Second step in debugging was to use the "Debug Sampler" and the "View Results Tree".
By moving the Debug Sampler between the different steps I found out the value of the token-variable is back to the default value after I receive the CSS.
So... now the big question is...
How can I make JMeter to remember my variable value until the end of my test-script ?
JMeter doesn't "forget" variables. However variables scope is limited to the current Thread Group. You can convert JMeter variable to JMeter Property which have "global" scope by i.e. using Beanshell Post Processor with the following code:
props.put("myVar", vars.get("myVar"));
Or by using __setProperty() function. See How to Use Variables in Different Thread Groups guide for details.
As you found it your problem comes from a misunderstanding of scoping rules in jmeter.
https://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/test_plan.html#scoping_rules
In your case, just put the post processor of the request that will give you the response containing the child node.
Also I think you don't need to share this token with other threads so don't use properties as proposed in the alternate answer.
I need some help with Tsung.
I would like to write a scenario in which a form is submitted. This form is used to upload a PDF document on the server. In addition, I need to "variabilize" some others fields like the document reference.
The Tsung documentation says to use the contents_from_file attribute. The inconvenience with that is I can't "variabilize".
What is the solution?
You can use the susbtitution variable process inside the file defined in the contents_from_file attribute.
I have a Java component which scans through a set of folders (input/processing/output) and returns the list of files in JSON format.
The REST URL for the same is:
GET http://<baseurl>/files/<foldername>
Now, I need to perform certain actions on each of the files, like validate, process, delete, etc. I'm not sure of the best way to design the REST URLs for these actions.
Since its a direct file manipulation, I don't have any unique identifier for the files, except their paths. So I'm not sure if the following is a good URL:
POST http://<baseurl>/file/validate?path=<filepath>
Edit: I would have ideally liked to use something like /file/fileId/validate. But the only unique id for files is its path, and I don't think I can use that as part of the URL itself.
And finally, I'm not sure which HTTP verb to use for such custom actions like validate.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Anand
When you implement a route like http:///file/validate?path you encode the action in your resource that's not a desired effect when modelling a resource service.
You could do the following for read operations
GET http://api.example.com/files will return all files as URL reference such as
http://api.example.com/files/path/to/first
http://api.example.com/files/path/to/second
...
GET http://api.example.com/files/path/to/first will return validation results for the file (I'm using JSON for readability)
{
name : first,
valid : true
}
That was the simple read only part. Now to the write operations:
DELETE http://api.example.com/files/path/to/first will of course delete the file
Modelling the file processing is the hard part. But you could model that as top level resource. So that:
POST http://api.example.com/FileOperation?operation=somethingweird will create a virtual file processing resource and execute the operation given by the URL parameter 'operation'. Modelling these file operations as resources gives you the possibility to perform the operations asynchronous and return a result that gives additional information about the process of the operation and so on.
You can take a look at Amazon S3 REST API for additional examples and inspiration on how to model resources. I can highly recommend to read RESTful Web Services
Now, I need to perform certain actions on each of the files, like validate, process, delete, etc. I'm not sure of the best way to design the REST URLs for these actions. Since its a direct file manipulation, I don't have any unique identified for the files, except their paths. So I'm not sure if the following is a good URL: POST http:///file/validate?path=
It's not. /file/validate doesn't describe a resource, it describes an action. That means it is functional, not RESTful.
Edit: I would have ideally liked to use something like /file/fileId/validate. But the only unique id for files is its path, and I don't think I can use that as part of the URL itself.
Oh yes you can! And you should do exactly that. Except for that final validate part; that is not a resource in any way, and so should not be part of the path. Instead, clients should POST a message to the file resource asking it to validate itself. Luckily, POST allows you to send a message to the file as well as receive one back; it's ideal for this sort of thing (unless there's an existing verb to use instead, whether in standard HTTP or one of the extensions such as WebDAV).
And finally, I'm not sure which HTTP verb to use for such custom actions like validate.
POST, with the action to perform determined by the content of the message that was POSTed to the resource. Custom “do something non-standard” actions are always mapped to POST when they can't be mapped to GET, PUT or DELETE. (Alas, a clever POST is not hugely discoverable and so causes problems for the HATEOAS principle, but that's still better than violating basic REST principles.)
REST requires a uniform interface, which in HTTP means limiting yourself to GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD, etc.
One way you can check on each file's validity in a RESTful way is to think of the validity check not as an action to perform on the file, but as a resource in its own right:
GET /file/{file-id}/validity
This could return a simple True/False, or perhaps a list of the specific constraint violations. The file-id could be a file name, an integer file number, a URL-encoded path, or perhaps an unencoded path like:
GET /file/bob/dir1/dir2/somefile/validity
Another approach would be to ask for a list of the invalid files:
GET /file/invalid
And still another would be to prevent invalid files from being added to your service in the first place, ie, when your service processes a PUT request with bad data:
PUT /file/{file-id}
it rejects it with an HTTP 400 (Bad Request). The body of the 400 response could contain information on the specific error.
Update: To delete a file you would of course use the standard HTTP REST verb:
DELETE /file/{file-id}
To 'process' a file, does this create a new file (resource) from one that was uploaded? For example Flickr creates several different image files from each one you upload, each with a different size. In this case you could PUT an input file and then trigger the processing by GET-ing the corresponding output file:
PUT /file/input/{file-id}
GET /file/output/{file-id}
If the processing isn't near-instantaneous, you could generate the output files asynchronously: every time a new input file is PUT into the web service, the web service starts up an asynchronous activity that eventually results in the output file being created.
I've been given the task of creating an ICAL feed of conference calls for members of our organization. I created a handler in ASP.NET that loops through our database, gets the call data from the database, and creates output that appears valid to me based on what I've read of the ICAL format, and the examples I've seen/disassembled.
Outlook 2007 reads the resulting output and displays the calendar, no problem (screenshot here shows how it renders).
30 Boxes also has no problem with it. (see test here).
But when I try to load the same output into Google Calendar, I get the message "We could not parse the calendar at the url requested":
What's wrong with my output that's causing Google to reject it? You can see the temporary data I'm testing with at this URL: http://www.joshuacarmody.com/temp/icaltest.ics. This is a snapshot of the output from my .ASHX file, unaltered except the phone numbers and passcodes have been sanitized.
Edit with additional Info:
I just tried the following
Created a copy of my test file called "icaltest-1googevent.ics"
Deleted all the VEVENT data from the file
Exported one of my Google calendars to ICS
Copied one VEVENT from Google's exported data into my test file
Attempted to subcribe to icaltest-1googevent.ics in Google Calendar.
I still got an error message. So I'm guessing the issue isn't with my VEVENT data, but with something else about the file. Maybe there's something wrong with my VCALENDAR definition?
the severinghaus ics validator seems to think there is something funny ( a ? ) before the BEGIN CALENDAR
http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joshuacarmody.com%2Ftemp%2Ficaltest.ics
In my testing google was a lot fussier/rigourous/pedantic - once you get it working with the validator and google it should work in most places.
After lots of trial-and-error, and comparing my output with Google's, I got it working. There were a few problems with my ICS file:
Unescaped characters (I didn't know I had to escape commas!)
Inconsistent line return characters. They didn't show up in my text editor, but I had to use .NET's String.remove() to remove "\r" from my output to get Google to recognize it
The file was missing VCALENDAR:END. Apparently Outlook doesn't much care. Google does.
I had not one, but three funny characters before the BEGIN:VCALENDAR, decimal codes 239, 187, 191.
I found them thanks to the severinghaus.org link above, thanks!
It turns out they're a prefix called BOM in UTF-8, you can read up on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Byte_order_mark
Google doesn't handle this, but after stripping these three characters from the file and uploading to the server, I was able to susbribe to that calendar in Google Calendar (from URL).
I hope this helps someone passing by this page in the future...
I had similar problem until I realised that opening the generated .ics file in Notepad++ wasn't in UTF-8. I was using a method to convert my string to a byte array, but wasn't using an encoder for this, so no matter what content headers I used, the file would never be generated using UTF-8. This simple fix resolved the UTF-8 generation and Google is now happy with my feed:
var utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;
byte[] utfBytes = utf8.GetBytes(myString);
myString= utf8.GetString(utfBytes, 0, utfBytes.Length);