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richie
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7 years ago
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POSTING plain text via a property to a REST Service

Hi,   I feel a bit of a dunce posting this message,  cos it should be straight forward - but it;s not working!   I have a REST resource, method, request setup which I intend to POST to, but the c...
  • StevenColon's avatar
    StevenColon
    7 years ago

    Hello Richie, 

     

    Thanks for posting in the SmartBear Community Forum.

     

    The error you are receiving is due to the message body not being in XML format.

     

    To solve the immediate error, you should modify the body to:

    <file_contents>${#TestSuite#fileContents}</file_contents>

     

    As a side note, I would recommend sending the data as an attachment since it is easier to manage  if the data gets larger (if that is the case). https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/projects/requests/attachment/rest.html

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StevenColon
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
7 years ago

Hello Richie, 

 

Thanks for posting in the SmartBear Community Forum.

 

The error you are receiving is due to the message body not being in XML format.

 

To solve the immediate error, you should modify the body to:

<file_contents>${#TestSuite#fileContents}</file_contents>

 

As a side note, I would recommend sending the data as an attachment since it is easier to manage  if the data gets larger (if that is the case). https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/projects/requests/attachment/rest.html

  • richie's avatar
    richie
    Community Hero
    7 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Does it make any difference that the message body is contained with XML tags?  The developer I'm dealing with told me that only the message content should be posted.

     

    If I changed the MediaType to text/plain - would this allow me to remove the containing <file_contents> tags?

     

    You did mention using the attachment function - I was reading about this before - but I was unsure if I use this attachment function that alters the request in some way - in regards to the request hitting and being processed by the resource - does it have any impact?  I haven't been able to get a specific answer on this from my reading.

     

    Many thanks for all your help!

     

    richie