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maria_vst's avatar
maria_vst
Contributor
7 years ago

How to provide an object from third party components to TestExecute REST API?

Hello. I'm trying to communicate with TestExecute API. When executing GET/POST requests with parameters simple data types everything is Ok. But there are some methods from third party components...
  • maria_vst's avatar
    maria_vst
    7 years ago

    Hello,

    If someone is interested in this, that is the way to resolve my issue:
    methodName = "LocateByDisplayText";
                request = new RestRequest("1/sys/" + mainViewId + "/method/" + methodName, Method.GET);
                request.AddParameter("arg1", 0); 
                request.AddParameter("arg2", request.JsonSerializer.Serialize(new { id = gridColumnId })); // Making a JSON based on the GridColumn id
                request.AddParameter("arg3", "\"Nissan\"");
                response = restClient.Execute(request);

    Regards,
    Maria

     

maria_vst's avatar
maria_vst
Contributor

 Hello.

   I'm trying to communicate with TestExecute API as alternative of Connected/Self-Testing applications which are deprecated by Smartbear. (These technologies will be removed in one of the future releases of TestComplete.)
Because our tests are based on this approach, I'm trying to find a way to work with TestComplete using REST API.


Example:
this is an example of usage of TestComplete in documentation
https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/app-objects/specific-tasks/grids/devexpress-xtragrid/selecting-cells.html#Clicks

function FindRowByCellText (Grid, View, ColumnId, Text)
{
  var Column;
  if (View == null)
    View = Grid["MainView"];
  Column = GetColumn (Grid, View, ColumnId);
  return View["LocateByDisplayText"](0, Column, Text);
}

function GetColumn (Grid, View, ColumnId)
{
  var Columns;

  Columns = View["Columns"];
    // The column is specified by index
    return Columns["Item_2"](ColumnId);
}

My question is how to call using REST API methods like this one:
View["LocateByDisplayText"](0, Column, Text);

where the Column is an object.


And there is a rough sample for CallMethod using REST API:

private static void CallMethod(string id, string methodName, params object[] methodParams)
{
methodName = AddArguments(methodName, methodParams);
RestRequest request = new RestRequest("1/sys/" + id + "/method/" + methodName, Method.GET);
string content = ExecuteRequest(request);
RMReturn r = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RMReturn>(content);
if (!r.success) throw new Exception("CallMethod: " + r.result);
}

 

CallMethod(ViewId, "LocateByDisplayText", 0, Column, Text);

Regards,
Maria

tristaanogre's avatar
tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
7 years ago

Those aren't REST API calls.  They are methods that are associated with the component itself.  As far as I know, there's not an API as such in TestComplete/TestExecute.  So, the question itself doesn't make sense since there isn't a published API.

The replacement for connected/self-testing applications is the product called "TestLeft".  Take a look at that and see if that will solve your problems.

    • tristaanogre's avatar
      tristaanogre
      Esteemed Contributor
      7 years ago

      Well, learned something new. :)

       

      OK... brief investigation... if you go to http://localhost:2377, you get the web interface for the API giving you the available API calls.

       

      I haven't gotten a chance to play with this yet... but I'll tell you it looks REALLY cool....  

      Anyways, looks like what you want is the one for calling a method of an object

       

      Obviously, you need to get the object ID before you can call the method so there's some additional code with finding objects, etc., that you would need to call to get the ID but then it would be a matter of just substituting {id} and {method} with the necessary segments.

       

      Obviously, this is a new piece of tech in TestComplete that I haven't played with before so I can't give you much in the way of expert advice but I'd start with that Swagger UI interface to the API and go from there.

       

      • maria_vst's avatar
        maria_vst
        Contributor
        7 years ago

        Hello.

        Yes. this is a new part of Test Complete/Execute. I've palyed withSwagger UI interface to the API.
        I know the object ID before calling the method.
        The problem is that this method requeres as a parameter another object, which object ID also is known.
        But calling the method with object ID instead of object itself doesn't work.
        And I don't have the object itself also.

        Regards,
        Maria