public static void Example_SimpleGetUsingProperties()
{
// Set an existant domain and resource path.
string url = "postman-echo.com/get";
// To prevent Log from output messages to Console we catch them and tell Log to not output to console.
Log.LogOutputDelegate = LogDelegate;
Log.LogToConsole = false;
// Ensure Repository has been cleared - incase any examples have changed anything...
Repository.ClearRepositoryAll();
// Instantiate HTTPBased and set the domain and resoure path of the URL.
// So this loads httpRequest.Domain with postman-echo.com
// and httpRequest.ResourcePath with /post
HTTPBased httpRequest = new HTTPBased();
httpRequest.HTTPMethod = HTTPBased.HTTPMethods.Get;
httpRequest.Domain = url.Split('/')[0];
httpRequest.ResourcePath = "/" + url.Split('/')[1];
HTTPBased.ItemList queryArguments = new HTTPBased.ItemList();
queryArguments.Add("foo", "bar");
queryArguments.Add("alpha", "7");
httpRequest.SetQueryStringFromItemList(queryArguments);
// Setup the HTTP Header items. We could use a list and call SetHeaderStringFromItemList. But for sake of example we will build the string
// ourselves.
httpRequest.HeaderString = $"content-type: text/plain\r\naccept: */*\r\nhost: {httpRequest.Domain}\r\naccept-encoding: identity\r\nconnection: close\r\n";
// Perform HTTP Post. Use TryHttpPOST as we are expecting an error. In a Test script, using the Try... would be preferential anyway incase a defect is touched and
// the POST fails badly. If an HTTP POST endpoint ouside the test domain is being used (IE. A Mock) then standard HttpPOST could be used.
try
{
HTTPBased.ItemList response = httpRequest.Http();
OutputDetails("Example of a simple HTTP GET", httpRequest, response,
$"Domain {httpRequest.Domain} exists and just echo's the get request. So we",
"expect the response to contain our requests arguments (foo=bar and alpha=7) in the",
"JSON 'args' field", "",
$"Note how the header line 'Content-Length: {httpRequest.Body.Length}' has been",
"automatically added to the Request header by HTTPBased.");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine("Exception: " + ex.Message);
}
}
public void WhenISetupAndPerformAnHTTPT(string httpTransactionType)
{
HTTPBased http = new HTTPBased();
http.Domain = (string)this.context["Domain"];
http.ResourcePath = (string)this.context["ResourcePath"];
if (this.context.ContainsKey("Query"))
{
if (this.context["Query"] is HTTPBased.ItemList)
{
http.SetQueryStringFromItemList((HTTPBased.ItemList) this.context["Query"]);
}
else
{
http.QueryString = (string)this.context["Query"];
}
}
if (this.context.ContainsKey("Header"))
{
if (this.context["Header"] is HTTPBased.ItemList)
{
http.SetHeaderStringFromItemList((HTTPBased.ItemList) this.context["Header"]);
}
else
{
http.HeaderString = (string)this.context["Header"];
}
}
http.Body = this.context.ContainsKey("Payload") ? (string)this.context["Payload"] : null;
switch (httpTransactionType.ToLower())
{
case "post":
http.HTTPMethod = HTTPBased.HTTPMethods.Post;
this.context["Response"] = http.Http();
break;
case "get":
http.HTTPMethod = HTTPBased.HTTPMethods.Get;
this.context["Response"] = http.Http();
break;
default:
throw new ArgumentException($"Only supporting POST and GET. Got [{httpTransactionType}]", "httpTransactionType");
}
}