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richie
Community Hero
7 years ago

Capture header value from POST to transfer to subsequent GET's header?

Hi,   I recently posted a query (see link) about scraping the header attributes in a POST's response to transfer onto a subsequent GET request and the query was successfully answered....so thankyou...
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    richie
    7 years ago

    I'm an idiot.

     

    To reiterate - in my test case I have a POST which generates a response header value that I needed to pass onto a subsequent GETs request header

     

    I didn't know about the header parameter you can specify when you create the service/resource/method/request.  I knew you could add query, matrix, and template parms - but not header parms - this is exactly what I needed.

     

    All I needed to do was re-create the subsequent GET request ensuring to specify it uses a header parameter.

     

    The groovyscript extracts the header value from the previous requests response and populates the properties file.  The Property Transfer handles the transfer.  Then via the subsequent request in the test that needs the header value - just click on the ellipsis button on the value field to 'GetData' from the Properties file!

     

    Sorted!

     

    Thanks,

     

    richie

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PaulMS
Super Contributor

If I read that correctly you can use standard property expansion in the value field of a header, even if right click functionality is not available.

richie's avatar
richie
Community Hero
7 years ago

thats right - as far as I can tell - I cant use the embedded functionality to transfer the header value - which was why I was using the groovyscript I found that you PaulMS suggested the alteration to get it to work.

 

What I didn't appreciate when I raised the initial post was that the subsequent step I need to pass the header value to (a GET request) doesnt filter via a URI filter (query or template parameter) but is filtered by a header value.

 

So the initial POST's response has a 'donorId' header.  The subsequent GET's request has a 'donorId' header I need to populate with the donorId value from the POST request.

 

Have I been clear?

 

thanks,

 

richie

  • richie's avatar
    richie
    Community Hero
    7 years ago

    I'm an idiot.

     

    To reiterate - in my test case I have a POST which generates a response header value that I needed to pass onto a subsequent GETs request header

     

    I didn't know about the header parameter you can specify when you create the service/resource/method/request.  I knew you could add query, matrix, and template parms - but not header parms - this is exactly what I needed.

     

    All I needed to do was re-create the subsequent GET request ensuring to specify it uses a header parameter.

     

    The groovyscript extracts the header value from the previous requests response and populates the properties file.  The Property Transfer handles the transfer.  Then via the subsequent request in the test that needs the header value - just click on the ellipsis button on the value field to 'GetData' from the Properties file!

     

    Sorted!

     

    Thanks,

     

    richie