[ptt-users] omission in post parameters

Geoff Meakin geoffm at gamesys.co.uk
Fri Dec 1 02:58:45 PST 2006 

Hi,

I have just read the w3c recs and spec, and note that basically you can POST what you like as part of a POST request, but what is legal depends on the Content-Type header declaration.

Therefore for a application/x-www-form-urlencoded they do indeed have to be key/value pairs, encoded properly.

Therefore in this respect my application under test breaks the w3c recs (nice)

However, we are now modifying the Content-Type to text/xml, which allows you to POST just xml.

How would I do this in testmaker please?

I.e. come up with something that looks like this:

POST /url HTTP/1.1
Host: foo.bar.com
Content-Type: text/xml
..... more headers .....

<some><xml></xml></some>


Thanks
-Geoff



-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.pushtotest.com on behalf of Mark.Lutton at thomson.com
Sent: Thu 30/11/2006 18:55
To: users at lists.pushtotest.com
Subject: FW: [ptt-users] omission in post parameters 
 
I don't think it is meaningful to have a single value without a key.  Here is an example of a POST request, which I got from http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/html/ :
 
POST /path/script.cgi HTTP/1.0
From: frog at jmarshall.com
User-Agent: HTTPTool/1.0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 32

home=Cosby&favorite+flavor=flies

You could also do this in the URL by putting the parameters into the query:
 
  http://hostname.com/path/script.cgi?home=Cosby&favorite+flavor=flies
 
But I don't know what the following means:
 
 http://hostname.com/path/script.cgi?Cosby
 
Likewise:
 
POST /path/script.cgi HTTP/1.0
From: frog at jmarshall.com
User-Agent: HTTPTool/1.0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 5

Cosby

 
In both cases Cosby looks like the key, not the value.  On the server side, what would ServletRequest.getParameterMap() return?
 
A parameter value can be an array of strings; a single string is equivalent to an array containing one string.  Is this what you are thinking of?  I don't know the syntax for an array of values but I guess it would be like this:
 
   self.params=[ [ '''key''', [ '''value1''', '''value2''', '''value3''' ] ] ]
 
So the following two would be equivalent:
 
   self.params= [ [ '''key''', [ '''value''' ] ] ]
 
   self.params= [ [ '''key''', '''value''' ] ]
 
 
Mark Lutton
Business Intelligence Services, a Thomson Business
 

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From: users-bounces at lists.pushtotest.com on behalf of Geoff Meakin
Sent: Thu 11/30/2006 12:59 PM
To: TestMaker users list
Subject: [ptt-users] omission in post parameters 



Hi all,

Does anyone know how to post a singleton parameter

Normally:

self.params= [ [ '''key''', '''value''' ] ]
self.post(url)

However it should be possibly to also post:

self.params= [ [ '''value''' ] ]
self.post(url)

but doing this leads to an index out of bounds.

I've checked HTTPBody.java and it DOES NOT have a method:
addParameter(String value)

If anyone can help with how to do this, it would be gratefully
appreciated!
Or indeed any other thoughts... am a bit stuck out here!

Cheers
-Geoff



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[mailto:users-bounces at lists.pushtotest.com] On Behalf Of Kyle Bell
Sent: 30 November 2006 15:40
To: TestMaker users list
Subject: Re: [ptt-users] TestMaker 5 completion specification

Frank,

I know you were looking for some example code associated with SIP
enabled instant messaging clients.  Follow the link below and click on
the Sip Communicator.  This is a NIST sponsored IM and telephony client.

http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/proj/iptel/

Regards,

-Kyle

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 08:03 -0800, Frank Cohen wrote:
> That explains it. :-( Oh well. Thanks for finding this. I'll see what

> I can do when I write the TM 5 build scripts. Maybe I'll write my own

> zip handler. -Frank
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Kyle Bell wrote:
>
> > Frank,
> >
> > I found this tidbit from the ant user manual -> core tasks -> zip:
> >
> > Starting with Ant 1.5.2, <zip> can store Unix permissions inside the
> > archive (see description of the filemode and dirmode attributes for
> > <zipfileset>). Unfortunately there is no portable way to store these
> > permissions. Ant uses the algorithm used by Info-Zip's 
> > implementation of
> > the zip and unzip commands - these are the default versions of zip
and
> > unzip for many Unix and Unix-like systems.
> >
> >
> > Please note that the zip format allows multiple files of the same 
> > fully-
> > qualified name to exist within a single archive. This has been
> > documented as causing various problems for unsuspecting users. If
you
> > wish to avoid this behavior you must set the duplicate attribute to
a
> > value other than its default, "add".
> >
> > This likely explains your issue.  The options available for the
> > duplicate attribute are as follows:
> >
> > duplicate -> behavior when a duplicate file is found. Valid values
are
> > "add", "preserve", and "fail". The default value is "add".
> >
> > In your zip task you may try specifying "preserve" as the value
rather
> > than the default of "add" and see where that takes you...
> >
> > Hope this helps...
> >
> > -Kyle
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 10:52 -0800, Frank Cohen wrote:
> >> Hi Kyle: Thanks for the feedback. See below. -Frank
> >> On Nov 27, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Kyle Bell wrote:
> >>
> >>> Frank,
> >>>
> >>> Nice feature list.  I especially appreciate the first new feature

> >>> idea
> >>> by Bongos Amigos.  I've not spent any time finding a good use for
> >>> those
> >>> generated XML files and this would make them immediately useful...
> >>
> >> Attached is an example TestScenario XML file. I'd love feedback on

> >> it.
> >>
> >>> Another enhancement or bug as it may be seen that I'd like to see
> >>> addressed is the ability to kill a running TestCase from the 
> >>> TestMaker
> >>> IDE which is not being controlled by XSTest.  If a test case is
> >>> running
> >>> within the browser (perhaps it was written to run in an infinite 
> >>> loop
> >>> correctly or by accident), I've not found a way to kill this
running
> >>> process as the "stop the agent" button appears not to be
effective.
> >>
> >> Interesting. When you click the stop button TestMaker kills the
> >> thread running the script. That's not a very nice way to do it, but
> >> it's something necessary. I suppose another way would be to have a
> >> signal to the running test case to stop. I'll give this some
thought.
> >> Thanks for making me aware of the problem.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Also, could I get you to make a small change to your ANT script 
> >>> which
> >>> packages your distribution?  I had previously suggested (and you
> >>> implemented) a change to make the permissions 755 on TestMaker.sh

> >>> when
> >>> you perform your packaging.  Could I talk you into doing the same

> >>> with
> >>> TestMaker.bat?  I also run TestMaker in some Windows systems and I
> >>> find
> >>> myself doing this within a cygwin environment as well.  Cygwin
> >>> requires
> >>> executable permissions on batch files for execution purposes and 
> >>> this
> >>> would prevent the step of changing permissions for other TestMaker
> >>> users
> >>> running in this environment.
> >>
> >> I'm ok with making that change.
> >>
> >> Maybe you can help me with a different problem. The way the
build.xml
> >> script is written now, the .sh files are correctly set with the 755
> >> permissions, but the resulting Zip file has two copies of the .sh
> >> files. It's totally weird to me to see WinZip on Windows ask if it
> >> can overwrite the .sh files. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Since you included my suggestion for a SIP UAC/UAS I now wish I
had
> >>> edited it a little more closely...  :o)  I'm unsure how you plan
to
> >>> implement this feature in a single day (I rather thought there was
> >>> more
> >>> than a days work there) but kudos if you can accomplish it.  I'll
be
> >>> working this week on a piece of code to handle new connection 
> >>> requests
> >>> on a UAS.  If you are interested in the code once I get it
polished,
> >>> I'll happily hand it over.  I borrowed the design idea from Simon
> >>> Foster's "Forwarding and Redirecting Network Ports" section 13.13
> >>> of the
> >>> "Python Cookbook", O'Reilly publishing.
> >>
> >> All the days are just estimates right now. I'm meeting with the
> >> engineers this week to get their estimate. Please send me the code
> >> you create. I'd love to see your approach.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> In the future, you may also use your recorder on SIP messaging by
> >>> redirecting your instant messenger to TestMaker as a proxy.  This
> >>> kinda
> >>> opens up a whole new realm of possibilities here as well...
> >>
> >> Totally agree with you on this. The proxy would easily extended to
> >> record SIP sessions and create test cases.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the terrific work, Frank.  If I come up with more
> >>> commentary,
> >>> I'll pass it along.
> >>>
> >>> -Kyle
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 17:08 -0800, Frank Cohen wrote:
> >>>> Work on TestMaker 5 continues. I wrote up a specification of the
> >>>> remaining projects to complete. I expect PushToTest will fund the
> >>>> development of the projects in this specification. I would love
to
> >>>> hear your feedback, suggestions, and prioritization.
> >>>>
> >>>> Download the TestMaker 5 completion specification document at:
> >>>> http://downloads.pushtotest.com/tm5/TM5_Specification.pdf
> >>>>
> >>>> The document is 444K in Adobe Acrobat format. Please post your
> >>>> feedback to this list.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> -Frank
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 374
> >>>> 7426
> >>>> Enterprise test automation solutions to check and monitor Web-
> >>>> enabled
> >>>> applications for functionality, scalability and reliability.
> >>>>
> >>>>
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