add http body
Add a message body into an HTTP request.
Name | Description | Type | Modifier |
---|---|---|---|
content | Data of the message body. | String | None |
None
This action may be used within the following project items: test modules and user-defined actions.
Suppose that you'd like to test a given Google API to send a message to a recipient with the following information:
- API under test: Users.messages: send.
- URI:
https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send
- Authentication scheme: OAuth 2.0
- In the request body, supply a Users.messages resource with the following property as the metadata.
Property name Value Description raw bytes The entire email message in base64url encoded string. Tip:To encode a plain text string into a base64url encoded string, you can use the Online Base64URL encoder tool.- Raw body content:
To: logigearepgtest2@gmail.com Subject: This is a test mail   This is a test mail
- Base64url encoded body content:
VG86IGxvZ2lnZWFyZXBndGVzdDJAZ21haWwuY29tClN1YmplY3Q6IFRoaXMgaXMgdGVzdCBtYWlsCgpUaGlzIGlzIGEgdGVzdCBtYWls
- Request body declared in JSON format {"raw":"base64url encoded string"}
- Raw body content:
name value
local variable access token ya29.Ci-fa76X0cjJXa2Lx0RM-fRyAQ6-6pboEX-iuT7PR-yYv6D-Rfbos7bs151wiL-O7w
local variable uri https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/logigearepgtest2@gmail.com/messages/send
local variable encoded body content VG86IGxvZ2lnZWFyZXBndGVzdDJAZ21haWwuY29tClN1YmplY3Q6IFRoaXMgaXMgdGVzdCBtYWlsCgpUaGlzIGlzIGEgdGVzdCBtYWls
 
create http request
 
schema value
authenticate oauth 2 # access token
 
key value
add http header Content-type application/json
 
content
add http body # "{""raw"":""" & encoded body content & """}"
 
uri method timeout variable expected code
send http request # uri POST 200 >>response 200
 
response status header body
parse http response # response >>status >>header >>body
- An HTTP request must be instantiated via create http request before calling this built-in action.
- Properties of the request body must be written in JSON format.
- This action supports the <ignore> modifier. If the string
<ignore>
is present as the value of the argument, or the argument contains an expression that evaluates to<ignore>
, the action is skipped during execution.