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On Monday, May 27, 2013 10:49:24 AM UTC+2, frank.s...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:33:39 PM UTC+2, Asher Vilensky wrote:
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> > Does anybody know of a tool to automate REST API testing?  Let me give =
a brief example of what I'm looking for.  Right now I'm using both Poster (=
FireFox add-on) or curl to do something like this:
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> > Post:  http://host:8080/<some path>/<API name>/<parameters>
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> > Content to send (json):
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> > "Name":"Asher-1",
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> > "Address1":"some St",
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> > }
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> > I'm doing this manually.  What I'd like to do is automate the above wit=
h different parameters and different json's.  Also, I have many different A=
PI's to test.  So the question is if anybody knows of an automated test too=
l that can do this.  I'm already familiar with things like Selenium and oth=
er GUI-based tools.  I'm NOT looking for that.
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> > Thanks.
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> What we've done is to write the tests in Python using the requests module=
, nosetest for the test runner and GNU parallel to run tests in parallel fr=
om a Jenkins job. We have a handful of helper methods which deal with authe=
ntication and also extended the nosetest asserts to handled additional case=
s (e.g. StringInDictNotEmpty). Pythons' default values on methods are reall=
y helping here.
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> The code is simple and easy to maintain. It gives you full control on the=
 error reporting and you can make writing the tests as simple as you can by=
 adding more helper methods. You can also write lots of very simple and ver=
y complex tests in the same framework, e.g. tests that need to create entri=
es, wait 5 seconds, check 3 other systems and so forth. PyCharm from JetBra=
ins is an invaluable tool for debugging the tests for us.
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Hi Frank

I'm looking for a way to tests REST APIs, using Python as well and I'm intr=
igued by your solution. Can you shed some more light on the subject? Altern=
ately, you can send me email directly to leonardaye @ gmail dot com.

Thanks
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