Grails 1.3.5
The problem is that I'm trying to test a RESTful web service that consumes json. I've read the docs on grails.org regarding this and tested using their Book example. I can't get params in the controller to contain any data. So I started googling and I ran across this:
http://maricel-tech.blogspot.com/2009/09/grails-how-to-execute-parameters-data.html
But that didn't even fix my problem. Anyone know if there is something else I need to do? I'd show my code but it is identical to the grails.org docs integration test for Book consuming json. Outside of an integration test, I can use the Firefox plugin, Post, to post json content to the web service and it works as expected. Only in the integration test does it fail. Thanks.
I got this to work by extending GrailsUnitTestCase rather than ControllerUnitTestCase. Can someone explain to me why this is the case?
this is what I have done in my ControllerUnitTestCases
// set param 'queryString', using a map
controller.metaClass.getParams = {-> [queryString: "oil"] }
// I have read that this should work also
controller.request.params = [queryString: "oil"]
In my case I am extending GroovyTestCase, I am not using GrailsUnitTestCase neither ControllerUnitTest since I am executing an integration test, not a unit test.
Something important is to specify the content-type in your controller, since the content type is what it determines what binder to launch, just do:
controller.request.contentType = "text/json"
Also make sure you have parseRequest=true in your URLMappings.groovy for the action you are trying to test. (I think you already do since this works for you out of the integration test).
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I'm using spring-lemon for my web application project. Spring-lemon uses standard form login by default, which works fine. Now, however, I need to use authentication with json request, something like this:
{"username":"spring.user", "password":"s3cret"}
How should I achieve this safely? I've searched for it, and I've seen different solutions, but I couldn't use them with success.
Spring Lemon doesn't come with this feature. However, I think you can code an end-point where you can manually fetch the user, match the password, decorate it and then set the authentication as below:
SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(
new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(user,
user.getPassword(), user.getAuthorities()));
The LemonTokenAuthenticationFilter does similar thing - you can have a look at it.
im trying to connect my polymer element to my own elasticsearch-server.
My first problem was, that they are on two different ports, so it had to choose JSONP because of Cross-Domain problems.
So I found out, that I just have to add
http.jsonp.enable: true
in the elasticsearch.yml.
Im starting the server simply by executing the "elasticsearch.bat".
I've indexed data.
If I try to load the API via iron-jsonp-library, im always getting an unexpected token error.
<iron-jsonp-library id="libraryLoader"
library-url="http://127.0.0.1:9200/data/_search?pretty%%callback%%"
notify-event="api-load"
callbackName="jsonpCallback">
</iron-jsonp-library>
In Google Chrome, I'm getting following result from elasticsearch
{"took":2,"timed_out":false,"_shards":{"total":5,"successful":5,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":5,"max_score":1.0,"hits":[{"_index":"data","_type":"data","_id":"5","_score":1.0,"_source":{"id":5,"name":"Meyr","manufacturer":"Meyr","weight":1.0,"price":1.0000,"popularity":1,"instock":true,"includes":"Meyr"}},{"_index":"data","_type":"data","_id":"2","_score":1.0,"_source":{"id":2,"name":"Meier","manufacturer":"Meier","weight":1.0,"price":1.0000,"popularity":1,"instock":true,"includes":"Meier"}},{"_index":"data","_type":"data","_id":"4","_score":1.0,"_source":{"id":4,"name":"Mair","manufacturer":"Mair","weight":1.0,"price":1.0000,"popularity":1,"instock":true,"includes":"Mair"}},{"_index":"data","_type":"data","_id":"1","_score":1.0,"_source":{"id":1,"name":"Maier","manufacturer":"Maier","weight":1.0,"price":1.0000,"popularity":1,"instock":true,"includes":"Maier"}},{"_index":"data","_type":"data","_id":"3","_score":1.0,"_source":{"id":3,"name":"Mayr","manufacturer":"Mayr","weight":1.0,"price":1.0000,"popularity":1,"instock":true,"includes":"Mayr"}}]}}
Due to some internet knowledge of JSONP, its not jsonp.
Why is my elasticsearch server, not formatting right?
Are you prior to v2.0? Looks like they removed jsonp in 2.0 (elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.2/…).
Alsopretty%%callback%% doesn't look right, the %%callback%% macro usually needs to be the value of name (like onload=%%callback%%). The element replaces %%callback%% with the name of a global function that is generated for you.
I have recently started development on a relatively simple WCF REST service which returns JSON formatted results. At first everything worked great, and the service was quickly up and running.
The main function of the service is to return a large chunk of data extracted from a database. This data rarely changes, so I decided to try and setup a caching mechanism to speed things up. To do this I planned to set InstanceContextMode.Single and ConcurrencyMode.Multiple, and then with some thread locks, safely return a static cached result. Every 5 minutes or so, or whenever IIS decides to clear everything, the data would be re-fetched from the database.
My issue is InstanceContextMode.Single does not behave as expected. My understanding is a single instance of my WCF service class should be created and maintained. However the behaviour I have is a completely new instance of my Class is created per call. This include re-initialising all static variables.
I tried changing the web service from webHttpBinding (used for REST) to wsHttpBinding and using the service as a SOAP config, but this results in exactly the same behaviour.
What am I doing wrong!!! Have spent way too long trying to figure this out.
Any help would be great!.
Strange, can you try this and tell me what happen then?
ServiceThrottlingBehavior ThrottleBehavior = new ServiceThrottlingBehavior();
ThrottleBehavior.MaxConcurrentSessions = 1;
ThrottleBehavior.MaxConcurrentCalls = 1;
ThrottleBehavior.MaxConcurrentInstances = 1;
ServiceHost Host = ...
Host.Description.Behaviors.Add(ThrottleBehavior);
And [how] do you know your single service instance isn't "Single"? You saw multiple database connection from profiler? Is that what suggested to you why your service isn't a single instance? From your service operation implementation, do you do some of the work on a separate thread?
Is there an API to determine whether a given job is currently running or not?
Ideally, I'd also like to be able to determine its estimated % complete and get the details of the SVN revision number and commit comment too!
EDIT:
I found the answer. http://host/job/project/lastBuild/api/ has almost all of what I need in it somewhere! If you kick off a manual build, it won't tell you the SCM changesets, but that makes sense. It does still tell you the latest SCM revision though, so that's good. All in all, good enough for my purposes right now.
As gareth_bowles and Sagar said, using the Jenkins API is the way to know.
If you put the depth to 1, you will see what you're looking for:
http://host/job/project/lastBuild/api/xml?depth=1
You will see there's a <building> tag to tell if that build is running
...
<build>
<action>
<cause>
<shortDescription>Started by user Zageyiff</shortDescription>
<userId>Zageyiff</userId>
<userName>Zageyiff</userName>
</cause>
</action>
<building>true</building>
<duration>0</duration>
<estimatedDuration>-1</estimatedDuration>
<fullDisplayName>Project #12</fullDisplayName>
<id>2012-08-24_08-58-45</id>
<keepLog>false</keepLog>
<number>12</number>
<timestamp>123456789</timestamp>
<url>
http://host/job/project/12
</url>
<builtOn>master</builtOn>
<changeSet/>
<mavenVersionUsed>3.0.3</mavenVersionUsed>
</build>
...
I'm using the Groovy plug-in, and run the following snippet as system:
import hudson.model.*
def version = build.buildVariableResolver.resolve("VERSION")
println "VERSION=$version"
def nextJobName = 'MY_NEXT_JOB'
def nextJob = Hudson.instance.getItem(nextJobName)
def running = nextJob.lastBuild.building
if (running) {
println "${nextJobName} is already running. Not launching"
} else {
println "${nextJobName} is not running. Launching..."
def params = [
new StringParameterValue('VERSION', version)
]
nextJob.scheduleBuild2(0, new Cause.UpstreamCause(build), new ParametersAction(params))
}
It works like a charm.
If you go to your job's page, and add "api" to the end of the URL, you'll get information on using the API.
http://yourjenkins/job/job_name/api
More information on using the Jenkins API:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Remote+access+API
If you're comfortable with digging through the Jenkins Java API, you could write a system Groovy script to get this data. The Job class is the place to start.
As stated on the /api page of your build (chapter "Accessing Progressive Console Output"), you can poll the console output with a GET request by calling <url-to-job>/lastBuild/logText/progressiveText. To quote the API doc:
If the response also contains the X-More-Data: true header, the server is indicating that the build is in progress
And there you go. You can test this behaviour by simply calling the respective URL in your browser and then inspecting the response headers with your browser's developer tools (usually accessed by pressing F12). In Firefox, the respective tab is called "network analysis" (assuming my translation is correct, my browser is not set to English). In Chrome, navigate to the "Network" tab.
This answer is based on Jenkins version 2.176.3.
It is also possible to look at the color attribute. I know it is not the wanted way. But maybe someone can make use of it.
get the overview xml via "/job/api/xml" and then check the color attribute for "anim".
I'm developing an interface between an old web based application and another one. That old web-based application works fine but there no exists any API to communicate with.
There is any programmatic way to say a web-form something like: enter this value on this field, this one ins other and submit form?
UPDATE: I looking for something like this:
WebAutomation w = new WebAutomation("http://apphost/report");
w.forms[0].input[3].value = 123;
w.forms[0].input[4].value = "hello";
Response r = w.forms[0].submit();
...
Despite the tag on your question, the answer is going to be highly language specific. There are also going to be wide range of solutions depending on how complex of a solution you are willing to implement and how flexible a result you are looking for.
On the one hand you can accomplish a lot in a very short period of time with something like Python's mechanize, but on the other hand, you can really get into the guts and have a lot of control by automating a browser using a COM object such as SHDocVw (Windows-only, of course).
Or, as LoveMeSomeCode suggested, you can really hit your head against the concrete and start forging POST requests, but good-luck figuring out what the server expects if is doing any front-end processing of the form data.
EDIT:
One more option, if you are looking for something that you can come up to speed on quickly, is to use a AutoIt's IE module, which basically provides a programmatic interface over an instance of Internet Explorer (its all COM in underneath, of course). Keep in mind that this will likely be the least supportable option you could choose. I have personally used this to produce proof-of-concept automation suites that were then migrated to a more robust C# implementation where I handled the COM calls myself.
In .NET: http://watin.sourceforge.net/
In ruby: http://wtr.rubyforge.org/
Cross platform: http://seleniumhq.org/
You can, but you have to mock up a POST request. The fields (textboxes, radio buttons, etc.) are transmitted as key-value pairs back to the resource. You need to make a request for this resource(whichever one is used in the SUBMIT action for the FORM tag) and put all your field-value pairs in a POST payload no the request.
Here's a good program to see what values are being transmitted: http://www.httpwatch.com
Or, you can use Firebug, a free Firefox extension.
The Perl module WWW::Mechanize does exactly that. Your
example would look something like this:
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new;
$agent->get("http://apphost/report");
my $response = $agent->submit_form(
with_fields => {
field_1_name => 123,
field_2_name => "hello",
},
);
There is also a Python port, and I guess similar libraries exist for many other languages.