TestComplete: web service communication.

Alexei,



Thank you, your post was very useful for me.

I wrote the function based on post http://smartbear.com/forums/f81/t65754/testing-curl-webservices to send the request to REST Web Service. Here's the code:



function send (objJSON) {



var XmlHttpRequest = Sys["OleObject"]("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP");

var method = "POST";

var URL = "http://192.168.125.27:8000/GetRows";



XmlHttpRequest.open(method, URL, false);

XmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "json");

XmlHttpRequest.send(objJSON);

//XmlHttpRequest.responseText returns JSON object

try {

return XmlHttpRequest.responseText;

}

catch (e) {

return "Error" + e;

}

}



ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0"); and Sys["OleObject"]("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0"); did not work, the TC said "The system cannot locate the resource specified." (msxml3.dll). I found topic about this issue and it works great for me:

http://p2p.wrox.com/classic-asp-xml/8761-msxml3-dll-0x800c0005-he-system-cannot-locate-2.html



I send the JSON object as a string in the body of the send() method:



objJSON = "{\"query\":\"select * from customer\"}"



And here I found that testcomplete can operate with the JSON objects by very simple way:

http://mindcemetery.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/json-in-testcomplete/



Note: I use testcomplete 7.52

Hi Vasily,



While TestComplete does not support REST services natively, I think that you may try with a good chances for success.

This will be a pure coding approach and following links might provide you with some ideas:

http://community.smartbear.com/forum/post/?mode=singleThread&thread=b107a341-e4b5-413e-80cd-f431e59c2844

http://community.smartbear.com/forum/post/?mode=singleThread&thread=5140855a-db7e-4d7d-a24f-a9f48784c06e

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/asmxandxml/thread/4f00c08e-0188-48ac-9bd8-78607c8fbfb9/

http://smartbear.com/forums/f74/t50150/How-can-i-do-a-HTTP-post-from-testcomplete

http://community.smartbear.com/forum/post/?mode=singleThread&thread=13162d4f-cbbc-451a-a576-c330012849c3

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893659

http://www.sqaforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=709426&an=0&page=0#Post709426



The basic approach might be to capture the request (using Fiddler, for example) sent to your web service and reconstruct than the request in TestComplete.

Hi Vasily,



Thank you for sharing the result, sample code and links to the resources. Very useful and much appreciated!