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Pabe1975
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Response message automatically encoded to base64

Hi All;   I wonder if someone came across this issue and has a way to solve it. I am getting an valid SOAP response from the service and that does not have a CDATA section in it. When receiving it ...
  • Pabe1975's avatar
    Pabe1975
    5 years ago

    This is the correct solution:

     

    Add the RequestFilter.afterRequest event handler with this string to decode the response - 

    def encodedResp = context.httpResponse.responseContent
    def decodedResp = encodedResp.decodeBase64()
    String toText = new String (decodedResp)
    context.httpResponse.responseContent = toText

    The script will be executed on receiving each response, and you will see the decoded response content in the XML, Outline and Overview tabs.
    In this article, you will find more details about handling events - https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/testing/handling-events.html

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Pabe1975
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Dear Tanya.. will try that. thanks

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    Pabe1975
    Occasional Contributor
    5 years ago

    Dear Tanya, Richie;

     

    The issue is also present in Readyapi 3.0, just tested it. 

     

    In Fiddler the message also shows as base64 encoded.  So far no solution yet. Need to check some things with developers.

    • TanyaYatskovska's avatar
      TanyaYatskovska
      SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
      5 years ago

      Thanks for checking this.

      I cannot tell you for sure if a response should be encoded automatically. I recommend that you contact our ReadyAPI Support team to investigate this. You can reach out to them here: https://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=readyapi

       

      Please post here an update once the solution is found

       

      • Pabe1975's avatar
        Pabe1975
        Occasional Contributor
        5 years ago

        This is the correct solution:

         

        Add the RequestFilter.afterRequest event handler with this string to decode the response - 

        def encodedResp = context.httpResponse.responseContent
        def decodedResp = encodedResp.decodeBase64()
        String toText = new String (decodedResp)
        context.httpResponse.responseContent = toText

        The script will be executed on receiving each response, and you will see the decoded response content in the XML, Outline and Overview tabs.
        In this article, you will find more details about handling events - https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/testing/handling-events.html