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Mis3
Frequent Contributor
4 years ago

How to output the HTTP response to a log file

This is another API I am working with. I use the following to output the results to a log file. def header = tStep.getTestRequest().response.responseHeaders log.info " Seq="+i+" "+"="+data[1]+"|Re...
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    Mis3
    4 years ago

    It is working now after some trial-and-errors.

    I replaced the def statement by String statement and the lines below did remove the square brackets.  

     

    String MESSAGE_TAS = tStep.getTestRequest().response.responseHeaders.'#status#'
    MESSAGE_TAS = MESSAGE_TAS.replaceAll("[\\[\\](){}]","")    // remove square brackets
    log.info " Seq="+i+" "+data[1]+",TAS-Put Result: "+MESSAGE_TAS

     

    Log info= Fri Sep 17 11:10:18 EDT 2021:INFO: Seq=5 14313140097,TAS-Put Result: HTTP/1.1 204

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richie
Community Hero
4 years ago
Hey Mis3,

The http response status code value you want is held in the #status# header. So you just need to extract that from the headers list.

Re: the Set-cookie header. The set-cookie header is the initial header received when you hit a specific domain. Any subsequent calls to that endpoint will include a 'Cookie' header, one cookie header for each semi colon separated value in the original responses Set-cookie' header. The use of set-cookie/cookie headers is to enable the maintain the http session for all requests hitting the same endpoint. However http sessions expire. This is whats happening here. The session is expiring so the request generates the set-cookie header with an updated jsessionid value.

Or at least i think thats how it works!

Ta

Rich
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    Mis3
    Frequent Contributor
    4 years ago

    Thanks.   I tried this and it worked:

    def MESSAGE1 = tStep.getTestRequest().response.responseHeaders.'#status#'

    log.info " Seq="+i+" "+data[0] + " " + msisdn_1 + " " + MESSAGE1

     

    MESSAGE1 is now [HTTP/1.1 404 ].  Not sure where did these square brackets come from?   How do I get rid of them?

     

     

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      richie
      Community Hero
      4 years ago
      Hey Mis3,

      Im on my phone so i cant double check. Can you 'log.info' MESSAGE1 variable immediately after youve declared it please?

      I want to see what it is before you start concatenating the other values together.

      Also, i thought you just wanted the status code. I didnt think you wanted the http version number as well.

      We can strip off the square brackets and the HTTP/1.1 if you need, but we need to do it BEFORE you start concatenating the string.

      Ta

      Rich
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        richie
        Community Hero
        4 years ago
        Hey Mis3,

        Oh. I just thought. Are thise square brackets really there or are they just rendered by the loggjng but in actual fact theyre no really there....

        Ta

        Rich