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Bipedal029
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

How to add custom headers at parent level

Hello,   I am trying to add custom headers at the parent level so that every request does not have to be individually tailored.  I see there may be some scripting options or property expansions but...
  • Bill_In_Irvine's avatar
    Bill_In_Irvine
    7 years ago

    You can do this at the parent level (by that I am guessing so that all requests use the same headers is what you want) - by doing so in an event handler. 

     

    So that in the RequestFilter.filterRequest event handler if you want to add "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" as a header you can do it the following way:

     

    def headers = request.requestHeaders

// I clear out all request content, but you might not want to do this:
context.setProperty("requestContent", '')
request.requestContent = ''

// add the header
headers.put( "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") 

request.requestHeaders = headers

    Now every request will have the "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" Content-Type.

     

    Bill

richie's avatar
richie
Community Hero
7 years ago

Hi,

 

Are you using ReadyAPI!?

 

I may be misunderstanding the complexities of your situation but in ReadyAPI! it's quite straight forward.

 

You can add headers at Resource, Method or Request level within the 'Projects' tab

 

1.  Create your resource, method and request within the 'Projects' tab

2.  Click on the 'Add Parameter' option at any of these levels

3.  Click on the 'Name' column and insert x-id

4.  Click in the 'Value' column specifying the relevant value - beit specific or you can tailor it with property expansion

5.  In the 'Style' column, hit the dropdown and select 'HEADER' option

 

and you're good to go!

 

Then - if you go into the SoapUI tab and within your test case, add the relevant test step that corresponds to the request you've just added the header to and the header will be present

 

Cheers,

 

richie

  • Bipedal029's avatar
    Bipedal029
    Occasional Contributor
    7 years ago

    Hello,

     

    I'm actually referring to the ability to add it at a parent level so that all requests created would have them with one addition.  I don't think your instructions cover that and I see other users looking for the same information.

    • Bill_In_Irvine's avatar
      Bill_In_Irvine
      Contributor
      7 years ago

      You can do this at the parent level (by that I am guessing so that all requests use the same headers is what you want) - by doing so in an event handler. 

       

      So that in the RequestFilter.filterRequest event handler if you want to add "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" as a header you can do it the following way:

       

      def headers = request.requestHeaders

// I clear out all request content, but you might not want to do this:
context.setProperty("requestContent", '')
request.requestContent = ''

// add the header
headers.put( "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") 

request.requestHeaders = headers

      Now every request will have the "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" Content-Type.

       

      Bill

      • richie's avatar
        richie
        Community Hero
        7 years ago
        hi,

        im obviously misunderstanding. what does 'parent' level in regards to the resource, request, method hierarchy available within soapui mean?

        do you mean to set a header in a single location - almost say at project level so every request within a specific project includes a specific header?

        Bill_In_Irvine.....could this be tailored for other REST uri parms e.g. matrix, query and template parms? im not sure when id want to do this....but still im curious.....

        cheers!