there is no redirect but this behaviour was caused by a record existing for the customer_number I had provided. Yet seems strange as I would have expected API to throw error for an existing record. thanks for your response.
Thanks Tarun K On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Deepak Shetty <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a redirect somewhere ? if JMeter has redirect automatically or > follow redirects checked then uncheck it and see. > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Bhadauria, Tarun Kumar < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I am using post call on json API, the request is - > > > > The API I used in HTTP Sampler is - > > > > <API>/api/customers/ > > > > On running the test I get following under "Request" tab of "View Results > > Tree" - > > > > ################################################################ > > POST <API>/api/customers/42 > > > > POST data: > > { > > "customer_number": "42", > > "email": "[email protected]", > > "encrypted_password": "z3cr37", > > "enabled": true > > } > > > > [no cookies] > > > > Request Headers: > > Content-Length: 129 > > Connection: keep-alive > > Content-Type: application/json > > ################################################################ > > > > Notice that path is changed to <API>/api/customers/42 even though I only > > have <API>/api/customers/ in the sampler. > > > > And the "Response" tab of "View Result Tree" gets me - > > > > ################################################################ > > {"type":"about:blank","title":"Method Not > > Allowed","status":"METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED","detail":"Request method 'GET' not > > supported"} > > ################################################################ > > > > To debug more, I removed - "customer_number": "42", from data as this > gets > > added to API URL and now I get the expected error that "customer_number" > > field is missing - > > > > ################################################################ > > {"type":"about:blank","title":"Bad > > Request","status":"BAD_REQUEST","detail":"Missing fields: > > [customer_number]"} > > ################################################################ > > > > Did I miss anything here? > > I am using JMeter 2.13 > > > > By the way, I can use curl format as specified here to call the API - > > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7172784/how-to-post-json-data-with-curl-from-terminal-commandline-to-test-spring-rest > > >
