HowTo use the HTTP request of a RestTestStep in groovy?

def String generateJunitErrorMessage(String errorMessage){
errorMessage = 'Data Supplied Assertion Failures: \n' + errorMessage
errorMessage = errorMessage + '\nRequest: \n'
def requestHeaders = messageExchange.getRequestHeaders()
for(request_header_key in requestHeaders.getKeys()){
errorMessage = errorMessage + request_header_key + "=" + requestHeaders.get(request_header_key) + '\n'
}
errorMessage = errorMessage + messageExchange.getRequestContent() + '\n'
errorMessage = errorMessage + '\nResponse: \n'
def responseHeaders = messageExchange.getResponseHeaders()
for(response_header_key in responseHeaders.getKeys()){
errorMessage = errorMessage + response_header_key + "=" + responseHeaders.get(response_header_key) + '\n'
}
errorMessage = errorMessage + messageExchange.getResponseContent() + '\n'
}//end of generateJunitErrorMessage

Thanks,

but if I log this in a groovy script assertion for a REST Request Step I get the following output:
Data Supplied Assertion Failures:
null
Request:
Host=IP:PORT
Accept-Encoding=gzip,deflate
User-Agent=Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1
Accept=application/xml


Response:
....

As you can see there is just the host, and not the request/URL used to invoke the REST service.

Regards,

René

You should be able to use the messageExchange.getRawRequestData() method.
This returns a byte[] with the contents from the Raw panel, which can be converted into a String:

log.info new String( messageExchange.getRawRequestData() )

Which prints out something like:

Wed Aug 11 11:41:37 CEST 2010:INFO:GET http://localhost:8080/NewsSearchService/V1/madonna_xml.xml HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1
Host: localhost:8080

Regards,
Dain
eviware.com

Thanks Dain, I will use messageExchange.getRawRequestData() for the moment.

There is one thing which is still disturbing:
messageExchange.getRawRequestData() does not work in all cases. For instance if you do not receive a response due to a network timeout the byte[] is empty.

I think, there should be at least one possibility to get the request/url used within the test step in all cases.

Regards,

René

I have noticed the same thing - the Raw tab is empty if the request times out. It would still have been parsed if there was an attempt to send it, so it would be nice to see it regardless of the response (or no response!)

Good point, this is a more or less a bug related to the internal architecture.. I'll try to figure it out..

regards,

/Ole
eviware.com