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AndyHughes's avatar
AndyHughes
Regular Contributor
8 years ago

How do I extract the new resource created via a REST POST for use in a subsequent request?

The API I'm testing is RESTful so I can create a resource such as an account number by sending a POST to AndysAPI/newaccount The code there generates an account number for me based on the details I'...
  • groovyguy's avatar
    groovyguy
    8 years ago

    I have a few snippets that you might be able to use for parsing out the data you want.  I'm going to have to fudge some of it since I do not know what your raw request looks like.

     

    testStep = context.testCase.testSteps["Test Step Name"];

String request = new String(testStep.testRequest.response.rawResponseData);

    // Set up a split-by-newline array for parsing line by line
    String [] splitData = request.split("\n");

    for (String eachSplit : splitData)
    {
          if (eachSplit.contains("AndysAPI/newaccount")
          {
               // Building this off of the example "AndysAPI/newaccount/1234"
               // This creates an array with from the string, using "/" as the delimiter
               def accountNumber = eachSplit.tokenize("/")[2];
               log.info(accountNumber);
          }
    }

     

    That should be enough to get you started.

groovyguy's avatar
groovyguy
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You can try to write a groovy script to parse the raw response to get the data required. That might work if it's not showing up in the non-raw response. 

AndyHughes's avatar
AndyHughes
Regular Contributor
8 years ago

Im not that good with groovy but I could work out how to do it. But actually I think that what you're describing is already possible using 'Get Data' within the software. ie I can already grab the whole raw response. The problem is that I want a specific part of the raw response. Eg. currently Im getting:

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Length: 0
Expires: -1 

HERE IS THE URI...at the end of which is the new resource I want to grab. 1234.

 

I just want to put 1234 into a parameter.

 

 

 

  • groovyguy's avatar
    groovyguy
    Community Hero
    8 years ago

    Since there's no data in the response and you have to go to the Raw response, Get Data may not be able to handle that accurately. Typically GetData, if you want to narrow down to one piece of information, needs to have a body to the response.

    You could try using a Property Transfer step and see if that works. I ran through something similar where I had to parse a UUID out of my response headers, and groovy script ended up being the best way for me since I needed to store the UUID and use it more than once. 

    • AndyHughes's avatar
      AndyHughes
      Regular Contributor
      8 years ago

      Yeh, I think this is the way to go because I cant see a way using the software to do it. 

      But do you know the script I would need?

      Thanks

      • groovyguy's avatar
        groovyguy
        Community Hero
        8 years ago

        I have a few snippets that you might be able to use for parsing out the data you want.  I'm going to have to fudge some of it since I do not know what your raw request looks like.

         

        testStep = context.testCase.testSteps["Test Step Name"];

String request = new String(testStep.testRequest.response.rawResponseData);

        // Set up a split-by-newline array for parsing line by line
        String [] splitData = request.split("\n");

        for (String eachSplit : splitData)
        {
              if (eachSplit.contains("AndysAPI/newaccount")
              {
                   // Building this off of the example "AndysAPI/newaccount/1234"
                   // This creates an array with from the string, using "/" as the delimiter
                   def accountNumber = eachSplit.tokenize("/")[2];
                   log.info(accountNumber);
              }
        }

         

        That should be enough to get you started.