Support for sending raw request bodies

[peritus]

There is no way to send a raw request body (e.g. a binary file), everything is UTF-8 encoded.

Webtest supports this somehow, so should this library.

[peritus]

Note to self: Perhaps Get Binary File [http://robotframework.googlecode.com/hg/doc/libraries/OperatingSystem.html?r=2.8.1#Get_Binary_File] in combination with Set Request Body works.

[pm-sachin-nikam]

Hi @peritus ,

I tried to use "Set Request Body" and "Get Binary File" but getting following error:

20150414 18:05:42.999 : DEBUG : Response headers:
20150414 18:05:42.999 : DEBUG : date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:00:42 GMT
20150414 18:05:43.000 : DEBUG : content-length: 0
20150414 18:05:43.000 : DEBUG : server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
20150414 18:05:43.000 : DEBUG : No response body received
20150414 18:05:43.001 : FAIL : Request should have succeeded, but was "415 Unsupported Media Type".
20150414 18:05:43.002 : DEBUG :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\HttpLibrary__init__.py", line 248, in POST
self.context.request_headers, **kwargs)
File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\HttpLibrary__init__.py", line 102, in post_process_request
self.response.status

[peritus]

20150414 18:05:43.001 : FAIL : Request should have succeeded, but was "415 Unsupported Media Type".

If there is no response body, you can't retrieve it.

[pm-sachin-nikam]

Hi @peritus ,

Thanks for your reply.

When I execute api using rest client to upload file. It works fine.

I was trying to automate it, but it is failing with error 415.

Below is the complete log:

Starting test: Automation.Test Suite.file upload
20150415 09:01:01.876 : TRACE : Arguments: [ u'192.168.1.1:8080' | u'http' ]
20150415 09:01:01.876 : INFO : Host for next HTTP request set to '192.168.1.1:8080'
20150415 09:01:01.876 : INFO : Scheme for next HTTP request set to 'http'
20150415 09:01:01.876 : TRACE : Return: None
20150415 09:01:01.876 : TRACE : Arguments: [ u'g:\new.csv' | encoding=u'UTF-8' ]
20150415 09:01:01.876 : INFO : Getting file 'g:\new.csv'
20150415 09:01:01.876 : TRACE : Return: "ID","Domain","URL"\n"24441","http://www.mycompany.com","http://www.mycompany.com"'
20150415 09:01:01.876 : INFO :
${Request_Body} = "ID","Domain","URL"
"24441","http://www.mycompany.com","http://www.mycompany.com"
20150415 09:01:01.886 : TRACE : Arguments: [ u'Content-Type' | u'application/vnd.ms-excel' ]
20150415 09:01:01.886 : INFO : Set request header "Content-Type" to "application/vnd.ms-excel"
20150415 09:01:01.886 : TRACE : Return: None
20150415 09:01:01.886 : TRACE : Arguments: [ u'\ufeff"ID","Domain","URL"\n"24441","http://www.mycompany.com","http://www.mycompany.com"' ]
20150415 09:01:01.886 : INFO :
Request body set to ""ID","Domain","URL"
"24441","http://www.mycompany.com","http://www.mycompany.com"".
20150415 09:01:01.886 : TRACE : Return: None
20150415 09:01:01.886 : TRACE : Arguments: [ u'/fileUpload' ]
20150415 09:01:01.886 : DEBUG : Performing POST request on http://192.168.1.1:8080/fileUpload
20150415 09:01:01.886 : DEBUG : Request headers:
20150415 09:01:01.886 : DEBUG : Host: 192.168.1.1:8080
20150415 09:01:01.886 : DEBUG : Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel
20150415 09:01:01.886 : DEBUG : Request body:
20150415 09:01:01.886 : DEBUG :
"ID","Domain","URL"
"24441","http://www.mycompany.com","http://www.mycompany.com"
20150415 09:01:01.906 : DEBUG : Response status line: 415 Unsupported Media Type
20150415 09:01:01.906 : DEBUG : Response headers:
20150415 09:01:01.906 : DEBUG : date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:56:01 GMT
20150415 09:01:01.906 : DEBUG : content-length: 0
20150415 09:01:01.906 : DEBUG : server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
20150415 09:01:01.906 : DEBUG : No response body received
20150415 09:01:01.906 : FAIL : Request should have succeeded, but was "415 Unsupported Media Type".
20150415 09:01:01.916 : DEBUG :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\HttpLibrary__init__.py", line 248, in POST
self.context.request_headers, **kwargs)
File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\HttpLibrary__init__.py", line 102, in post_process_request
self.response.status
Ending test: Automation.Test Suite.file upload