[ptt-users] omission in post parameters
Frank Cohen
fcohen at pushtotest.com
Mon Dec 11 05:32:18 PST 2006
Thanks Geoff. I didn't see it but now I have your files and it looks
good. I appreciate your support. -Frank
On Dec 11, 2006, at 2:07 AM, Geoff Meakin wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> Not sure if you saw my reply to this email it went to your other
> mail list-- because it was too big for the regular one.
>
> It included all the code I changed to support posting values only,
> and also setting any content types.
>
> Cheers
> -Geoff
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.pushtotest.com on behalf of Frank Cohen
> Sent: Sat 09/12/2006 07:54
> To: TestMaker users list
> Subject: Re: [ptt-users] omission in post parameters
>
> Set the body of the HTTPProtocolHandler to the contents of your XML
> and then make a POST connection.
>
> We're researching now ways to support AJAX and REST style calls
> better. Any ideas on how to improve TestMaker along these lines would
> be appreciated, and timely.
>
> -Frank
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Geoff Meakin wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-bounces at lists.pushtotest.com
>> [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
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>>>>>>> enabled
>>>>>>> applications for functionality, scalability and reliability.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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