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maxrussell
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10 years ago

Prefix a property transfer in header

I am using a property transfer to take an oAuth access_token from a response and transfer it to my next GET REST request. The header Name is "Authorization" and the value needs to be in the format "B...
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  • maxrussell's avatar
    maxrussell
    10 years ago

    I'll write my own response to this:

     

    Bearer ${[Test Step name]#ResponseAsXML#[Xpath xpression]}

     

    Does not work.

     

    Instead, I needed to use a property transfer to Properties, where I stored acctok and then an appropriate header in my request:

    Bearer ${acctok}

     

    I would be interested to see how the ResponseAsXML#XPath Expression method works, but I couldn't get it to do so.

     

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maxrussell
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Should specifically have mentioned - I am dealing with a JSON type response.

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kondasamy
Regular Contributor
10 years ago

Even if the response is JSON, SoapUI supports XPath for the JSON content trasforming them to XML internally; since we are using ResponseAsXml which does the conversion internally,

Bearer ${Source TestStep#ResponseAsXml#//OAuthResponse[1]/token[1]}

So, the above property expansion script will work regardless of being a JSON response.

 

Thanks,

Samy

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    maxrussell
    Contributor
    10 years ago


    I have a property transfer that contains the term access_token.
    In the second request (Get All Project Details) I have the header Bearer ${Source ObtainAuthTok1#ResponseAsXML#//access_token} in the request.

    When this runs, the desired token is placed into the Authorization field, but it is not prefixed with Bearer.

     

    I am a bit confused by this process.

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      kondasamy
      Regular Contributor
      10 years ago

      To clearly make a note, Propety transfer step is not at all needed as you are directly referencing it through Property expansion feature. I will just reiterate in the required format needed for this operation,

      Bearer ${[Test Step name]#ResponseAsXML#[Xpath xpression]}

       

      I suspect that you might have to correct the XPath expression; please check! This should work; as I see desired result from my end!

       

      Thanks,

      Samy

       

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        maxrussell
        Contributor
        10 years ago

        Bearer ${ObtainAuthTok1#ResponseAsXML#//access_token} - is my exact syntax. The response only has a single access_token. However, this doesn't return the token.

         

        Interestingly, just using "access_token" - in the property transfer, did do the selection....

         

        I've double checked by proxying out through Fiddler and can see Bearer, but not the token...