How can I duplicate parameters?

[moofatech]

Hi there,

I'm not sure this has been raised before but I thought I'd ask anyway.

I'm trying to run a GET request that represents a filter that can have two or more values passed to it. The url in the request is something like this:

https://nonexistingendpoint.com/v1/findNames?name=A&name=B

The above is a valid URL but it is not accepted in SoapUI. (the software actually crashed when I attempted to force it using 'New Resource').

What would be a great alternative?

Thanks for the help.

[PaulMS · Accepted solution]

This answer should work

https://community.smartbear.com/t5/SoapUI-Pro/Res-duplicate-properties-in-REST-request/td-p/39318

To summarize:
- in Resource or in Method, add parameter (use style = QUERY)
- select parameter and enable "Disable Encoding" at bottom of page
- in Request, select parameter and set Multi-Value Delimiter to \| in bottom-left properties section
- set a value of, e.g., 1|2|3 for the parameter (can use DataGen)
- request will be sent out with, e.g., parameter=1&parameter=2&parameter=3

[moofatech]

This worked fine for me. Thank you for your help .

[socaltester]

I attempted to follow the above solution provided and got stuck after being able create the second duplicate parameter I needed. Basically, I created the non-entitized parameter (param 1) that is to be entitized and created duplicate parameter (param 2) as entitized with "disable encoding" enabled, but creating a third duplicate parameter or more is failing due to SoapUI's insistance of unique paramater names.

https://nonexistingendpoint.com/v1/findNames?name=A&name=B&name=C&name=D

Can someone help? Am I missing something in the summary of steps? For instance, do I need to create a data generator after the entitized and non-entitized options are exhausted?

[socaltester]

I attempted to follow the above solution provided and got stuck after being able create the second duplicate parameter I needed. Basically, I created the non-entitized parameter (param 1) that is to be entitized and created duplicate parameter (param 2) as entitized with "disable encoding" enabled, but creating a third duplicate parameter or more is failing due to SoapUI's insistance of unique paramater names.

https://nonexistingendpoint.com/v1/findNames?name=A&name=B&name=C&name=D

Can someone help? Am I missing something in the summary of steps? For instance, do I need to create a data generator after the entitized and non-entitized options are exhausted?

[socaltester]

Can anyone respond? In order to attempt creating a third and fourth duplicate I am replacing a property character with an HTML Hex Code.

https://nonexistingendpoint.com/v1/findNames?name=A&name=B&n%61me=C&n%61%6De=D

Yes....

Entitize Properties is " false "

Multi-Value Delimiter is " \| "

Disable Encoding is selected "Disables URL-Encoding of the parameter value

But...

the approved solution in this post indicates that characters shouldn't need to be entitized/encoded

https://nonexistingendpoint.com/v1/findNames?name=A&name=B&name=C&name=D

[richie]

Hey @socaltester

I havent got my laptop so i cant try and reproduce to nail this down but ive used these instructions to do this before.


Are you remembering to set the multi-value delimiter switch in the Request Properties section (bottom left hand corner) to \|

Also then you need to input the different name parameter values (e.g. A,B,C,D) in the Name query parameter 'Value' field ensuring to separate the values using the |

e.g. A|B|C|D

Once you do this you should then see the repeated name query parm string (e.g. ?name=A&name=B&name=C&name=D ) displayed within the 'Parameters' field (adjacent to thr 'Resource' field

Nice one,

Rich

[socaltester]

I made a mistake by using the example used by the previous poster as I now understand the use of the " | " delimiter when duplicate properties are in back-to-back order.  My actual situation has over 150+ properties and the duplicate properties are never back-to-back within the urlencoded string. Instead there are many properties in between each duplicate, such as, this example segment...

&COLOR%2FWRAP=&COLOR%2FCOLOR_NAME=&COLOR%2FCC=&COLOR%2FNUM=&COLOR%2FBOX=&COLOR%2FSOURCE=&COLOR%2FCARGO=&COLOR%2FWRAP=&COLOR%2FCOLOR_NAME=&COLOR%2FCC=&COLOR%2FNUM=&COLOR%2FBOX=&COLOR%2FSOURCE=&COLOR%2FCARGO=&COLOR%2FWRAP=&COLOR%2FCOLOR_NAME=&COLOR%2FCC=&COLOR%2FNUM=&COLOR%2FBOX=&COLOR%2FSOURCE=&COLOR%2FCARGO=&COLOR%2FWRAP=&COLOR%2FCOLOR_NAME=&COLOR%2FCC=&COLOR%2FNUM=&COLOR%2FBOX=&COLOR%2FSOURCE=&COLOR%2FCARGO=&WRAP

[socaltester]

I'll create a new post.