Can't use a runtime variable as part of request path

[Allblues]

I love how easy it is to use restfuse, but with the annotation-based approach, I don't see a way to use a variable I set at runtime as a segment in a rest request. For example, I want to perform this workflow:

1. Make a query call that returns a set of entity ids.
2. Save one of the ids from that call in an instance variable.
3. Make a "get entity by id" call that uses my variable as part of the URL. For example:
   @httptest( method = Method.GET, path = "/entity/Candidate/{id}" )

The {id} segment would resolve to the variable I set at runtime, but it can't since the annotation gets read at compile time.

This is easy to do in SoapUI, but I'm looking at lighter weight tools like restfuse.

[drejc]

Yes, with the annotation approach you can not make calls that are
dynamically resolved while running tests.
Annotations are resolved on compile time and are static when running / this
is a Java limitation.

regards
Drejc

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Allblues [email protected] wrote:

I love how easy it is to use restfuse, but with the annotation-based
approach, I don't see a way to use a variable I set at runtime as a segment
in a rest request. For example, I want to perform this workflow:

1. Make a query call that returns a set of entity ids.
2. Save one of the ids from that call in an instance variable.
3. Make a "get entity by id" call that uses my variable as part of the
   URL. For example:
   @httptest( method = Method.GET, path = "/entity/Candidate/{id}" )

The {id} segment would resolve to the variable I set at runtime, but it
can't since the annotation gets read at compile time.

This is easy to do in SoapUI, but I'm looking at lighter weight tools like
restfuse.

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[gionn]

+1

Without some sort of runtime generation paths, it's actually impossible to test creation and deletion of the same resource (that is common when doing integration tests).

[vrspider]

+1
So no other work around about this issue?
@gionn I wondered how did you manage to test the creation and deletion of the same resource later on ?

[Allblues]

You should try Rest Assured. Been using if for quite some time now and love it.

[gionn]

@vrspider 11 months after we are using a simple REST client built on top of Apache HTTPClient (https://github.com/ClouDesire/tisana4j) for our integration tests.