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maxrussell
Contributor
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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kondasamy
Regular Contributor

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...

  • HeikoStudt's avatar
    HeikoStudt
    Occasional Contributor
    10 years ago

    Hi,

    I am rather not a professional SoapUI user yet... however, for me it is less complex in understanding the solution in two steps:

    Use a property transfer to extract the value into some TestCase property (or somewhere else) and then in the following TestStep some Property Expansion to prefix the "Bearer" string.

     

     

    MFG (Best regards)

    Heiko Studt

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    nadamat
    New Contributor
    6 years ago

    kondasamy 
    Same in my case as well. In GetToken test step, I'm making an HTTP request.


    Then I have added the below property in the header of next step as suggested.
    Authorization:        Bearer ${GetToken#ResponseAsXml#//Authorization}



    But when I checked the raw form of request no value is passed except Bearer .