How to test Asynchronus web method using soapUI.

Hi!

Exactly how does the server send the response when the upload is done?

regards,

/Ole
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Actually need to test an Asynchronus WCF and web method sends the image for upload and then give call back to client and on the background another window service stores the image and parse the and then parsed image data is sent back as server response.

Hi,

hmm.. I'm not sure exactly what this means from an "HTTP-request-standpoint-of-view".. ie who is sending/receiving requests from whom during the entire transaction.. can you elaborate?

(sorry for not understanding..)

regards!


/Ole
eviware.com

Hi
Let me elaborate a bit on the client-server interaction happening.

We have a WCF service that exposes an operation that is called asynchronously, lets call it UploadAndProcessFile.
For making it asynchronous, we have two corresponding BeginUploadAndProcessFile, and EndUploadProcessFile.

From client side, this is how we call the method asynchronously.

                    IAsyncResult ar = client.BeginUploadAndProcessFile(file, null, null);
                    ar.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne();

                    EndUploadResult res = client.EndUploadProcessFile(ar);

How can we perform a similar call from SoapUI ?

If I understand correctly, you can do this with two webservice requests, one calling the BeginUploadAndProcessFile function, and the other one calling the EndUploadProcessFile function. SoapUI does not have functionality yet to support Asynchronous operation in the manner you described, but you can put in a static wait in between the calls to ensure that the service has enough time to complete the processing of the file.

How does the service signal to the client when the file processing is complete?

/Nenad
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