#rest services

SoapUI Tutorial Part 3 : Deep dive assertions in SoapUI

Validation is way too important than Invention, I hope you agree with this statement as not only testers, business analysts, product owners believe in this statement but developers, customers are also getting inclined with the same thought. The idea is to showcase the importance of change in the perception of a developer with a QA. (more…)

RESTful Services with Rich Domain Logic Using RESTier

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RestClient gem can be used for calling REST based web-service calls. These days I am working on integrating JasperReports with Ruby on Rails. 

Jasper Reports exposes Rest apis for doing various jobs and I am using these web service methods for generating various reports etc in Ruby on Rails. This post is not about the integration of Rails with Jasper Reports ( I will be doing it very soon), but rather on how on how to use RestClient for making the web-service request.

For explaining this post, I am going to assume that our webservice server is accessible at the following location:

url = "http://localhost:8080/example_server/"

With RestClient, one can make all HTTP verb calls (POST, GET, PUT and DELETE)

Below are small examples of how to make different using RestClient. Lets assume that we need to pass some parameter while making the call and for this purpose, I will be creating a JSON data variable which will store some parameters for this example. 

1st Example is for POST request

json_data = '{"param1":100, param2 = "some_value"}" result = RestClient.post url, json_data, {:content_type => :json, :accept => :json}

where json_data variable has all parameters and along with the POST request we are passing the content type parameters for the request also.

GET request example: 

json_data = '{"param1":100, param2 = "some_value"}" result = RestClient.get url, {:content_type => :json, :accept => :json}

PUT request example: 

json_data = '{"param1":100, param2 = "some_value"}" result = RestClient.put url, json_data, {:content_type => :json, :accept => :json}

DELETE request example: 

Please note that for DELETE request, I have made a little change in the url

url = "http://localhost:8080/example_server/resource" result = RestClient.delete url

In some cases webservice call requires authentication and only a user who has proper permission will be able to get the data. In these cases, after authentication, you will get a valid cookie and lets assume that this is stored in 'response' variable. So now while making the POST request, we will have to pass this cookie value also. This can be done the following way:

result = RestClient.post url, json_data, {:cookies => {"session_id" => response}, :content_type => :json, :accept => :json}