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MarcovS
Contributor
9 years ago

Add HTTP headerfield to Requests

Hi All,   I'm using Ready API 1.5.0 for testing REST API calls. Came across this Groovy-script that seems to be useful to add a HTTP-header field to all teststeps. I'm executing it on Project-level...
  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    9 years ago
    def token = new File('C:/temp/SOAPUI/PmAuthenticationToken.txt').text
if (token) {
   request.requestHeaders['PmAuthenticationToken'] = [token]
} else {
   log.error("Token is empty or null")
}
nmrao's avatar
nmrao
Champion Level 3
9 years ago
You mentioned header needs to be added for the test steps which is not possible if the test step type is jdbc/groovy etc.
So, the question is that please specify if test step is SOAP? or REST or HTTP Request or something else?
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    MarcovS
    Contributor
    9 years ago

    I mentioned in my introduction "..testing REST API calls.." and thats still the case. ;-)

     

    To be more specific: they are REST Request Test Steps. And because I've about 200 different REST Request Test Steps divided into several (functional) blocks/projects. Also useful, because we're working with more people on these sources.

    • nmrao's avatar
      nmrao
      Champion Level 3
      9 years ago
      Ok. If that is the case, then you can use Events feature to handle your case like RequestFilter, add headers before run for each rest so that you do not have to really worry about the number of test cases that it needs to be updated.
      • MarcovS's avatar
        MarcovS
        Contributor
        9 years ago

        This script does the job (temporarily) for me as RequestFilter.filterRequest-event:

         

        // Add HTTP headers to all Requests
def headers = request.requestHeaders

headers.put( "AuthenticationToken", "abc123" )
log.info headers
request.requestHeaders = headers 

         

        Below the situation of my project. With the "RequestFilter.filterRequest-event" I'm able to add a fixed token-value to the header of TestStep 2. The token is read in TestStep 1 and needed in header of TestStep 2:

         

        Project_A

          TestSuite_B

            TestCase_C

                1. DataSourceReadToken (read txt-file)

                2. REST_Request_GET

         

        I would expect that "RequestFilter.filterRequest-event" is executed on the level of TestStep 2, so that it can use the propterty (eg. outputvalue)of TestStep 1.

         

        As mentioned before: I need this solution for a situation where I have about 50 TestSteps in a few TestCases. So manually changing them is not an option (for now ;-).

         

        Any suggestions how to solve this issue?