How to use REST Library in Robot Framework?

[finspin]

Does anybody know how to use the REST Library for Robot Framework? The library is available here http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-restlibrary/source/browse/trunk/RestLibrary.py. It seems like there is no documentation available.

I tried something like this in Robot Framework but there is no response coming back from the request:

REST Test Case
    Get         https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/timezone/json?location=39.6034810,-119.6822510&timestamp=1331161200&sensor=true
    Response    test
 

Any ideas how to use this library?

[Stephen Jefferies]

Not sure about that particular library - it hasn't been touched for a few years though so you would probably be better off looking at one of the other HTTP libraries out there and see if they do what you need. There are two listed in the test libraries page of the RF site:

• https://github.com/peritus/robotframework-httplibrary 
  
• https://github.com/bulkan/robotframework-requests
  

I personally use the first of these since it allows you to write slightly more verbose tests but thats personal preference. Both have documentation and examples of usage if you take a look at the tests folder in the source of either. 

[Bulkan]

Hi all,

Im the creator of robotframework-requests if you need more features please ask me and I shall add them.

Cheers

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[Ragavan Varatharajan]

Hi,

Is it possible to have "Patch" in the http request library ?

Thanks for you reply.

Cheers

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[Laurent Bristiel]

yes, patch is available.

[Ragavan Varatharajan]

Thanks !

[test....@gmail.com]

Hi,

Is robotframework-requests library supporting the REST API ?

If REST API returns JSON or XML , can this library handle both ?

I am completely new to robot framework and am looking for REST API libraries, which can handle JSON and XML both.

Thanks.

Cheers

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[Laurent Bristiel]

yes and yes, you can try it out. Should work fine.
Laurent

[Andrei Paraschiv]

Hi,

I am having some trouble with the library.
Could you please help me?

Thank you.
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This works fine

Post Requests
    [Tags]  post
    Create Session  httpbin  http://httpbin.org
    ${data}=  Create Dictionary  name  bulkan  surname  evcimen
    ${headers}=  Create Dictionary  Content-Type  application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    ${resp}=  Post  httpbin  /post  data=${data}  headers=${headers}
    Dictionary Should Contain Value  ${resp.json()['form']}  bulkan
    Dictionary Should Contain Value  ${resp.json()['form']}  evcimen


This too,

Get Requests
    [Tags]  get
    Create Session  swagger  http://petstore.swagger.wordnik.com:80/api/pet/400
    ${resp}=  Get  swagger  /
    Should Be Equal As Strings  ${resp.status_code}  200
    ${jsondata}=  To Json  ${resp.content}
    Log  ${jsondata}

   
However this does not.

Post Requestss
    [Tags]  post
    Create Session  swagger  http://petstore.swagger.wordnik.com:80/api
    ${data}=  Create Dictionary  id  88  name  gerbil  status  available
    ${headers}=  Create Dictionary  'content-type'  'application/json'
    ${resp}=  Post  swagger  /pet  data=${data}  headers=${headers}
    Dictionary Should Contain Value  ${resp.json()['id']}  88
    Dictionary Should Contain Value  ${resp.json()['name']}  gerbil

It gets:

KEYWORD: ${resp} = RequestsKeywords.Post swagger, /pet, data=${data}, headers=${headers}

Documentation:	Send a POST request on the session object found using the
Start / End / Elapsed:	20141129 16:25:05.031 / 20141129 16:25:05.605 / 00:00:00.574

16:25:05.033

INFO

Starting new HTTP connection (1): petstore.swagger.wordnik.com

16:25:05.605

INFO

${resp} = <Response [415]>

00:00:00.001 KEYWORD: Collections.Dictionary Should Contain Value ${resp.json()['id']}, 88

Documentation:	Fails if `value` is not found from `dictionary`.
Start / End / Elapsed:	20141129 16:25:05.605 / 20141129 16:25:05.606 / 00:00:00.001

16:25:05.606

FAIL

Resolving variable '${resp.json()['id']}' failed: KeyError: 'id'

[Andrei Paraschiv]

Fixed it.
It took only a tcp dump to figure out that I had some extra quotes that were not needed.in the headers definition.

*** test cases ***
Get Requests
    [Tags]  get

    ${headers}=  Create Dictionary  content-type  application/json

    Create Session  swagger  http://petstore.swagger.wordnik.com:80/api/pet/400    headers=${headers}

   
    ${resp}=  Get  swagger  /
    Should Be Equal As Strings  ${resp.status_code}  200
    ${jsondata}=  To Json  ${resp.content}
    Log  ${jsondata}
   

Post Requests
    [Tags]  post

    ${headers}=  Create Dictionary  content-type  application/json

    Create Session  swagger  http://petstore.swagger.wordnik.com:80/api  headers=${headers}

    ${data}=  Create Dictionary  id  88  name  gerbil  status  available

    ${resp}=  Post  swagger  /pet  data=${data}
   

    Log  ${resp.text}
    Should Not Contain  ${resp.text}  415

Put Requests
    [Tags]  put

    ${headers}=  Create Dictionary  content-type  application/json

    Create Session  swagger  http://petstore.swagger.wordnik.com:80/api  headers=${headers}

    ${data}=  Create Dictionary  id  77  name  cow  status  sold
    ${resp}=  Put  swagger  /pet  data=${data}

    Log  ${resp.text}
    Should Not Contain  ${resp.text}  415

[Santosh Karki]

Hi Steve,

I am new to using robot framework and I am to work in testing RESTful services. In the previous regard, can you please illustrate an example of a test case how both XML and JSON responses can be returned?

Thanks

Santosh