POST'ing JSON with Robotframework-requests

[nvill...@despegar.com]

Hello all,

I'm trying to create a test case using the Requests library.

The issue I ran into is that I'm communicating with an API that expects to receive data in JSON format. What I thought about doing is to have a Python dict in a module for easy editing and whatnot.

Now, in my code, I loaded this module via the Variables keyword, and used it in my test case as such:

${resp} Post Request api ${V1_ROOT}/auth/signup data=${VALID_USER} headers=${APPLICATIONJSON}

That ${VALID_USER} variable is picked up just fine, but what the keyword "Post Request" does, is to convert this dict into a urlencoded string. I need it to send it over as-is.

Sniffing traffic with Wireshark, shows me this:

URL encoded data

And I need this:

Raw dict

(request sent with Postman)

Is there something I'm missing here?

Thanks a lot!

[Gu Ru]

I had a similar issue. i added the stingify_json method as in robotframework-httplibrary to the robotframework-requests library. This patch of code helped

[nvill...@despegar.com]

Yeah, I thought about extending it too... If there's no other way, I'll have to go with it.

Thanks a lot!

[Nesat Ufuk]

I came over this using json library and using new &{DICTIONARY} variable type.

After creating my &{DICTIONARY}, I have converted it to json with like below.

*** Settings ***
Library           json

*** Test Cases ***
${json_data}=   json.dumps   ${DICTIONARY}
${headers}=   Create Dictionary   Content-type=application/json
${resp}=  Post Request   CS   api/v1/sale/   data=${json_data}   headers=${headers}

Hope that will help.

P.s
json.dumps  -> Dictionary to Json
json.loads    -> Json to Dictionary