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Pabe1975's avatar
Pabe1975
Occasional Contributor
6 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

TanyaYatskovska's avatar
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)

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

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    TanyaYatskovska
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    5 years ago

    Great to hear that the solution was found!

    And thanks for sharing it with the Community, Pabe1975.

    Good luck in testing :)

     

     

  • pjgratz's avatar
    pjgratz
    New Member
    5 years ago

    What settings are used by the default encoding that is taking place currently? When I manually use a base64 decoder I get different content than what I capture in the debug of the service. I believe it is an encoding charset issue and trying to figure out what settings it is using.