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ykrrishna
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8 years ago

sending REST request with parameterised (JSON) data by testcomplete for testing

With TestComplete, I would like to send a parameterised JSON Request (probably with a different method each time. (FYI, am dealing with REST apis)   What could I possibly require to achieve this ?...
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ykrrishna
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NisHeraColin_McCraeAlexKaraskevin_kapell

Thanks for the reply.

 

NisHera

I do have imported the required libraries earlier but I am getting a timeout error.

 

Is it ok if I ask for the code samples for how you are handling your request and response from the URLs ? As I am also working on REST I hope that will be a great help

 

Thanks All

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Colin_McCrae
Community Hero
8 years ago

Mine is VBScript ...

 

    ' Set up the POST
    Set json_object = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
    json_object.open "POST", <URL-OF-ENDPOINT>, False
    json_object.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json"
    ' Send the JSON
    json_object.send <JSON-DATA>
    ' Grab the reply code from the server
    reply = json_object.status

I use it as send only. (Hence always using "POST") The response is a simple response code. Which I normally expect to be a 200. And of course, it triggers some actions from the service it hits which are reflected on the website I run the tests against.

 

 

With a "GET" request, you get a JSON/XML blob in the response which you can parse.

 

<URL-OF-ENDPOINT> is the API endpoint you want to hit.

 

<JSON-DATA> is a string I build in code. It's only relevant to the application I'm testing obviously.

 

Pretty straightforward. More reading here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms766431(v=vs.85).aspx