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Stalsy
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4 years ago

Authorisation token expires too soon

 I'm running data-driven tests that have 5 steps: 1. Get new Authorisation token 2. DataSource (get a few thousand random rows from DB2) 3. REST Request  4. Assert script  5. DataSource Loop ...
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    Stalsy
    4 years ago

    The acquisition of a new access token is very slow so I can't afford to have it inside the loop. As you can see from the code snippet below I request for a new token and then wait in a loop till I have one:

    def oldToken = oAuthProfile.getAccessToken();

    def oAuthClientFacade = new OltuOAuth2AzureClientFacade (TokenType.ACCESS);
    oAuthClientFacade.requestAccessToken(oAuthProfile, true,true);

    while(oldToken == oAuthProfile.getAccessToken())

    {
      sleep(100);
    }

     

    I'm pretty happy with what I've got now:

    I get the access token in the TestRunListener.beforeRun event which also sets a test case property "Duration" to the time I want to wait till I need another token.

    Inside the test loop, in my groovy asserts script, I check if the test has been running for a time exceeding the Duration property, and if yes, I get a new access token and increment the Duration property

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nmrao
Champion Level 3
May be you want to check with your team regarding increasing the expiration time.
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Stalsy
Contributor
4 years ago
The expiration time is actually 1 hour! I said 30 seconds as an example. Some of the data is very old and I'm trying to do 100% coverage. There are about 150K rows and I've been testing 1-4k random rows per time, but when the errors are all "discovered", I want to do all 150k rows. What I've done works, I've set the Duration property to 30000000ms and run it for 40,000 rows. After about 20,000 requests I saw the property go to 60000000 and then I interrupted the test. My problem is that it's very clumsy and verbose and I need to do it for every test case. I tried using events, using a static method in my script library but no luck.