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MistaWizard
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago
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Hi all,   Is there a way to view the ajax-content inside of soapUI?   I'm trying to view the web application but all i can see is the barebone HTML. I'm using REST to login and call the servlet b...
  • rupert_anderson's avatar
    rupert_anderson
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    OK, I think I see what you're looking to do and why you wanted to request the web page in order to trigger the AJAX update.

     

    Like you have described, it would probably be more straight forward to use something like the HTTP Request TestStep to instead directly test the endpoint that the AJAX code calls (presumably the one who's shown in the screen shot) - something like this:

     

    Where you would obviously replace the URL with your one and the posted content with your own. Looks like your AJAX call does:

    Request URL=https://e1.pncie.com/payments/recordFinancialAccount.do

    Method=POST

    Media Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded

     

    Not sure if there is any security to deal with, but I can make a GET request to that URL with a broswer, so maybe not.

     

    Assuming you can replicate the AJAX POST request like above (with correct request body content), something like this seems a better use of SoapUI than the Groovy / Selenium approach.

     

    Regards,

    Rup

     

     

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rupert_anderson
Valued Contributor

Hi,

 

Its quite an interesting idea, but if I'm understanding you right, you're trying to call a web page (that contains some AJAX / client side JavaScript functionality) using a REST request and wanting to see the results of the AJAX script in the response tab? If so, I don't think this would be consistent with any web service behaviour that SoapUI is designed to test. I mean that SoapUI would effectively have to request the HTML page and when the response comes back, allow the AJAX script to execute (from inside the response tab) and request the missing content, thus completing the normal web browing experience.

 

Instead have you considered using a Groovy TestStep to maybe run some Selenium web driver code to make the request? I think I might have seen posts of people doing stuff like this with SoapUI...

 

Just my take,

 

Regards,

Rupert

MistaWizard's avatar
MistaWizard
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

You are absolutely correct, that what I want.

 

Thank you, I have played around alot with selenium and soap but was hoping to steer away from selenium just for an ajax call. Looks like I can't though, as i've been trying for a while and google doesnt even know so...

 

I will have a look at using a groovy step, maybe there is a way to view the data from ajax that way.

  • rupert_anderson's avatar
    rupert_anderson
    Valued Contributor
    9 years ago

    OK, no problem, its quite an interesting/unusual usage, but should be possible somehow using Groovy. I only did a quick search, saw this one, not sure if it helps getting you started:

     

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30732190/how-to-automate-soap-ui-in-selenium-web-driver

     

    I guess the trick is to, one way or another, invoke a browser session of some sort so that your client side JavaScript (AJAX) is able to execute once the initial page request is complete..

     

    What do you want to do once you suceed with requesting the completed web page? Did you want to do some kind of checks / Assertions on it? Does it tie into some kind of API TestCase?