Base64 encoded string

[Philip_Baird]

Hi, as part of a XHR web service call I am testing, I am required to send basic Authorization in the header encoded as Base64.

I couldn't find a way to do this from a Test Complete object so came up with the following using the dotNET object:

function getEncodedCredentials( userName, password ) {

  var textBytes = dotNET.System_Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes_2( userName + ":" + password );

  var encodedText = dotNET.System.Convert.ToBase64String( textBytes ); 

  return encodedText;

}

which is used such as:

Log.Message( getEncodedCredentials( "fred", "fl1ntst0ne" ) );

My question is this, is their another way to do this in Test Complete that does not require a call to the CLR Bridge?

Regards,

Phil Baird

[AlexKaras · Accepted solution]

Hi Phil,



I used .Net-based approach in several projects and it worked fine.

However, the following request http://www.google.com/search?q=base64+encode+string+jscript+vbscript returned quite a few results the first of which http://stackoverflow.com/questions/496751/base64-encode-string-in-vbscript looks quite interesting (though I did not verified what people have talked there about).

[Philip_Baird]

Thanks Alexei, after a quick look I think I will stick with the .Net approach.

Phil

[AlexKaras]

The reason for my decision was exactly the same 😉

[Afshal]

Hi, Can i get the same equivalent script for decoding a string. 

[AlexKaras]

Hi,

If your test project is JScript/Java Script/C#Script-based, then the code from https://scotch.io/tutorials/how-to-encode-and-decode-strings-with-base64-in-javascript can be used as it is.

For the project that uses some other language you can put the referenced code into Script Extension and use it from there.

[Afshal]

Thanks, But i need the script in this format for decoding too

var string='test';
function main()
{
  getEncodedValue(string);
}
function getEncodedValue(string)
{
  var textBytes = dotNET.System_Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes_2(string);
  var encodedText = dotNET.System.Convert.ToBase64String(textBytes);
//  return encodedText;
  Log.Message(encodedText);
}
 

[AlexKaras]

Hi,

The code I have referenced does not use .Net but is pure Java-based.

If you declare it as a public variable (as in the code sample), then use Base64.encode() to encode the string and Base64.decode() to decode encoded one.

[RohitSen]

Hey Alex,

I need a Function containing only Decoding  part in java Script. I refered your Link Containing both encoding and decoding functions together and I'm not able to divide them seperately So can  you help me with Seperate functions for both encoding and decode functionalities.

Regards,

Rohit Sen

[AlexKaras]

Hi Rohit,

The referred link contains minified code (with extra spaces and indentations removed). You may expand it with the help of some Java Script formatter (or manually) and remove the part that you don't need.

P.S. Out of curiosity: is it really a problem if encoding function is present in the code?