Sync call with Oauth2 needed in Testcomplete
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Sync call with Oauth2 needed in Testcomplete
We are currently struggling to make a synchronuous call with an OAuth2 authentication in Testcomplete.
Previously we had a similar call using Basic Authentication to do the same, but recently we had to comply with security rules and this endpoint has been changed to have a OAuth2 authentication.
Does anyone has a relevant experience with this? We use Testcomplete with JS scripting to have everything done.
But this call is baffling us a bit.
In particular, we need to have this kind of conversation : {'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' }
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Hi,
Are you doing API or web UI testing ?
For API calls TestComplete does not provide any special support for Oauth2 thus you will need to search for some code that implements this.
For UI actions, TestComplete should be able to interact with the dialogs that request your login information and you shouldn't have problems here.
More details with screenshots might help to better understand your problem in case I got it in a wrong way.
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Hi Alex,
Thanks for your response. Eventually we found a solution. I'll include my code in this ticket for others to use.
It was not an easy journey to find this.
To respond to your question: we use Testcomplete to do web UI testing, but occasionally we need to do some API calls to make our live a bit easier.
(mostly to do 'shorter steps' where if scripted to do it by UI, too heavy or not relevant for the running test).
function httpPostRequestBearer()
{
var username = "<username>";
var password = "<password>";
var keycloakurl = "https://<authentication client URL>";
const params = {
username: username,
password: password,
client_id: '<cliend-id>',
client_secret: '<client-secret>',
grant_type: 'password'
};
const data = Object.keys(params)
.map((key) => `${key}=${encodeURIComponent(params[key])}`)
.join('&');
var tempBody = data
// Define the request body JSON string
var requestBody = tempBody;
// Create the aqHttpRequest object
var aqHttpRequest = aqHttp.CreatePostRequest(keycloakurl);
// Specify the Content-Type header value
aqHttpRequest.SetHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
// Send the request, create the aqHttpResponse object
var aqHttpResponse = aqHttpRequest.Send(requestBody)
var token = JSON.parse(aqHttpResponse.Text).access_token
return token;
}
function httpPostRequest(param,bearertoken)
{
var address = "https://<url for service needing a token>";
var tempBody = '{ <your body possibly inserting your param from argumentlist> }'
// Define the request body JSON string
var requestBody = tempBody;
// Create the aqHttpRequest object
var aqHttpRequest = aqHttp.CreatePostRequest(address);
// Specify the Content-Type header value
aqHttpRequest.SetHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
aqHttpRequest.SetHeader("Authorization", "bearer "+bearertoken);
// Send the request, create the aqHttpResponse object
var aqHttpResponse = aqHttpRequest.Send(requestBody)
if (aqHttpResponse != null)
{
// Read the response data
Log.Message(aqHttpResponse.AllHeaders); // All headers
Log.Message(aqHttpResponse.GetHeader("Content-Type")); // A specific header
Log.Message(aqHttpResponse.StatusCode); // A status code
Log.Message(aqHttpResponse.StatusText); // A status text
Log.Message(aqHttpResponse.Text); // A response body
var JSONobj = JSON.parse(aqHttpResponse.Text);
}
return JSONobj
}
The code may not be the 'cleanest' but it does the job. The first function will get the bearer token and the second function is a POST call using the bearer token from the first passed by as an argument. The code has been cleaned to not have my exact calls of course, but it will provide an idea how we tackled it.
Hope someone can enjoy it later too. 😊
