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Bipedal029
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6 years ago
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How to add custom headers at parent level

Hello,   I am trying to add custom headers at the parent level so that every request does not have to be individually tailored.  I see there may be some scripting options or property expansions but...
  • Bill_In_Irvine's avatar
    Bill_In_Irvine
    6 years ago

    You can do this at the parent level (by that I am guessing so that all requests use the same headers is what you want) - by doing so in an event handler. 

     

    So that in the RequestFilter.filterRequest event handler if you want to add "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" as a header you can do it the following way:

     

    def headers = request.requestHeaders

// I clear out all request content, but you might not want to do this:
context.setProperty("requestContent", '')
request.requestContent = ''

// add the header
headers.put( "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") 

request.requestHeaders = headers

    Now every request will have the "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" Content-Type.

     

    Bill

Bipedal029's avatar
Bipedal029
Occasional Contributor

Hello,

 

I'm actually referring to the ability to add it at a parent level so that all requests created would have them with one addition.  I don't think your instructions cover that and I see other users looking for the same information.

Bill_In_Irvine's avatar
Bill_In_Irvine
Contributor
6 years ago

You can do this at the parent level (by that I am guessing so that all requests use the same headers is what you want) - by doing so in an event handler. 

 

So that in the RequestFilter.filterRequest event handler if you want to add "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" as a header you can do it the following way:

 

def headers = request.requestHeaders

// I clear out all request content, but you might not want to do this:
context.setProperty("requestContent", '')
request.requestContent = ''

// add the header
headers.put( "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") 

request.requestHeaders = headers

Now every request will have the "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" Content-Type.

 

Bill

  • richie's avatar
    richie
    Community Hero
    6 years ago
    hi,

    im obviously misunderstanding. what does 'parent' level in regards to the resource, request, method hierarchy available within soapui mean?

    do you mean to set a header in a single location - almost say at project level so every request within a specific project includes a specific header?

    Bill_In_Irvine.....could this be tailored for other REST uri parms e.g. matrix, query and template parms? im not sure when id want to do this....but still im curious.....

    cheers!
    • Bill_In_Irvine's avatar
      Bill_In_Irvine
      Contributor
      6 years ago

      Hi Richie,

       

      Some global level elements certainly can be set, but I do that in the settings/preferences dialogue.  Unfortunately they will apply to all projects.

       

      One example is to use my own custom User-Agent header when I want to bypass the request and use my own curl from groovy. So in the preferences under HTTP for "User-Agent header: I type curl/7.27.0. Other preferences apply globally too. I suspect this is not what the OP wants if the OP has multiple projects. I have not found how to do that in a groovy script. I also turn off compression "Request Compression" - choose None. 

       

      The request parameters - resources, can be done in groovy as well using perhaps json, and I've done that. I don't know about matrix or template parms as I don't use them.

       

      I prefer proper nomenclature too: Global: Across all projects, Events or Project: Affects all test suites, Test Suite - affects all test cases, etc.

       

      regards

       

      Bill

       

       

      • Bipedal029's avatar
        Bipedal029
        Occasional Contributor
        6 years ago

        What I mean is to set the header so that all requests for that particular project have it.  Say you import a SWAGGER file and it has all of the methods listed in a project.  Set the header in the tree of the project at the top so that all of the test suites you create from it have the header set.  The only way I could see to do it was to create a test suite with each of the individual methods and add them manually to each in the ReadyAPI tab for functional testing.

         

        I think the answer is above in coding it and I will give it a shot, sorry for not being more clear.