[ptt-users] HTTP params in agentbase script

[Mark.Lutton at thomson.com]

Hello!
 
I'm just beginning to use TestMaker and I have a problem that I don't understand.  (TestMaker 4.4; Tomcat 5.0.28 on the server side.)
 
I used the Recorder to create a script.  This has a number of self.get() statements in it.
 
Here is part of the script:
 
  self.params = [ [ '''userName''', '''manager''' ], ['''password''', '''manager''' ], [ '''submit''', '''Logon''' ] ]
  self.post( '''http://localhost:8080/myApp/logon.do''', self.params)
 
On the server side I have the application print the parameters from the HTTP request:
 
  Logon:  parameter:  password=manager
  Logon:  parameter:  submit=Logon
  Logon:  parameter:  userName=manager
 
My application has a "magic URL" which, if called as the very first request on start up, sets it to a local test mode.  So I added the following to the script before any other self.get or self.post:
 
  self.get('''http://localhost:8080/myApp/quickStartFake.do?start=true''')
 
This is followed by several other get's and then the post as seen above.  But now here's what happens in the logon request:
 
  Logon:  parameter:  password=manager
  Logon:  parameter:  submit=Logon
  Logon:  parameter:  userName=manager
  Logon:  parameter:  start=true
 
It should still have only the three parameters password, submit and userName.  I don't think the problem is on the server side.  The parameter is not cached, and it's not being put into the request by the application.  I can't force this to happen from the browser.
 
Here is what I see in the Tomcat log.  In the first case (no quickStartFake):
 
   "POST /myApp/logon.do HTTP/1.1"
   "GET /myApp/managerConsole.do HTTP/1.1"  etc.
 
In the second case:
 
  "GET /myApp/quickStartFake.do?start=true HTTP/1.1"
  "POST /myApp/logon.do?start=true HTTP/1.1"
  "GET /myApp/managerConsole.do?start=true HTTP/1.1" etc.
 
It appears that the query parameter is extracted from the first get and appended to each succeeding get or post.  I can't see how this is happening in agentbase.py, or any way to fix this.
 
Can anyone explain what is happening?  Thanks.
 
 
Mark Lutton
Business Intelligence Services, a Thomson Business