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jzyling
Occasional Contributor
12 years ago

Using parameters in JSON Body in REST HTTP POST method

Hi, I am trying to create a REST HTTP Request for a POST Method, using JSON data in the body. I am trying to use parameters instead of values in the body. For example: POST Body: { "accountId"...
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lostiniceland
New Contributor
10 years ago

Thanks for the reply, I've already read the mentioned link. Let me clarify what I intended to do

 

Since TestSuites use the Requests I added to the project I wanted to use a method-level parameter for the resource-request. My hope was that I can set some default options which I can also select with an expression. This is what the screenshot shows.

 

SoapUI_5.2.0_Method-Parameter.jpg

Since this didnt work I tried using a actual value in the parameter-value without success.

 

So I skipped the idea of a "generic" request and wanted to access the TestCase property which is defined as id and gets its value via a property-transfer

 

SoapUI_5.2.0-TestCase-Properties.jpg

 

According to the documentation I tried a property-expansion in various ways:

"ticketId" : "${#TestCase#id}"

"ticketId" : "${#Properties#id}" // mentioned in some forum

"ticketId" : "${=testRunner.testCase.getProperty('id')}"

"ticketId" : "${=testRunner.testCase.getPropertyValue('id')}"

// just tried the following since nothing else seemed to work
"ticketId" : "${=testRunner.testCase.testSuite.getProperty('id')}"

"ticketId" : "${=testRunner.testCase.testSuite.getPropertyValue('id')}"

 

Just to be clear: the property in the testcase is successfully set by the property-transfer, so there is a valid value at runtime.