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MistaWizard's avatar
MistaWizard
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

ajax plugin

Hi all,   Is there a way to view the ajax-content inside of soapUI?   I'm trying to view the web application but all i can see is the barebone HTML. I'm using REST to login and call the servlet b...
  • rupert_anderson's avatar
    rupert_anderson
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    OK, I think I see what you're looking to do and why you wanted to request the web page in order to trigger the AJAX update.

     

    Like you have described, it would probably be more straight forward to use something like the HTTP Request TestStep to instead directly test the endpoint that the AJAX code calls (presumably the one who's shown in the screen shot) - something like this:

     

    Where you would obviously replace the URL with your one and the posted content with your own. Looks like your AJAX call does:

    Request URL=https://e1.pncie.com/payments/recordFinancialAccount.do

    Method=POST

    Media Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded

     

    Not sure if there is any security to deal with, but I can make a GET request to that URL with a broswer, so maybe not.

     

    Assuming you can replicate the AJAX POST request like above (with correct request body content), something like this seems a better use of SoapUI than the Groovy / Selenium approach.

     

    Regards,

    Rup

     

     

gmm4shu's avatar
gmm4shu
Occasional Visitor

I wanted to get clarification regarding your ajax plugin response. We have an application for which a web page update is requested by client side JavaScript code. Because of its significance to our application, we would like to instrument this request using SOAPUI. With this capability, we could test the update service independently of our application. I have captured the network traffic from when the page update is issued by the application, so that a basis is established from which the SOAPUI test instrumentation could be set up. After some effort, it appears that the HTTPRequest step , if set up properly, should be able to issue the request , so that we can review the response to verify the server side logic associated with the update.

 

Could you clarify that SOAPUI should be able to provide this test capability ? I tried to extract parameters using the push button, but didn't get a response. Unfortuantely, I don't have anything that comes close to and interface spec for the service, so the network capture (from IE ) is all I have to guide the setup. If I'm on the right track, perhaps there is an example or two that you could point to that would assist in this effort. With what I have done with this so far, I get a response from the server side, but it indicates a 404 error instead of the data we are looking for. We've been able to independently test this interface, to the extent that it appears to work, but the available mechanism(s) are not as convenient as the HTTPRequest test step, which can be easily integrated into an existing test suite of related REST / SOAP interfaces. Thanks in advance For Your help.

rupert_anderson's avatar
rupert_anderson
Valued Contributor
9 years ago

Hi,

 

OK, I think I see what you're looking to do and why you wanted to request the web page in order to trigger the AJAX update.

 

Like you have described, it would probably be more straight forward to use something like the HTTP Request TestStep to instead directly test the endpoint that the AJAX code calls (presumably the one who's shown in the screen shot) - something like this:

 

Where you would obviously replace the URL with your one and the posted content with your own. Looks like your AJAX call does:

Request URL=https://e1.pncie.com/payments/recordFinancialAccount.do

Method=POST

Media Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded

 

Not sure if there is any security to deal with, but I can make a GET request to that URL with a broswer, so maybe not.

 

Assuming you can replicate the AJAX POST request like above (with correct request body content), something like this seems a better use of SoapUI than the Groovy / Selenium approach.

 

Regards,

Rup