Help with body in PUT request

Gatling (Open-Source)
1

I am using version 2.0.0-M3a and I have to a web service where the a PUT request requires body data, sometimes in JSON and sometimes form URL encoded.
When I try to add .body(…) or .param(…) a compilation error occurs. Is this supported? If so what I am doing wrong from the following.

body error:

exec(http(“request_1”)
.put("/")
.body("""{“test”: “test_value”}""")
)

04:56:14.684 [ERROR] i.g.a.ZincCompiler$ - G:\tools\gatling2\user-files\simulations\cc\PutTest.scala:27: type mismatch;
found : String("{“test”: “test_value”}")
required: io.gatling.http.request.Body
04:56:14.721 [ERROR] i.g.a.ZincCompiler$ - .body("""{“test”: “test_value”}""")
04:56:14.722 [ERROR] i.g.a.ZincCompiler$ - ^
04:56:14.979 [ERROR] i.g.a.ZincCompiler$ - one error found

param error:

exec(http(“request_1”)
.put("/")
.param(""“testparam”"", “”"{“test”: “test_value”}""")
)

05:00:00.414 [ERROR] i.g.a.ZincCompiler$ - G:\tools\gatling2\user-files\simulations\cc\PutTest.scala:27: value param is not a member of io.gatling.http.request.builder.PutHttpRequestBuilder
possible cause: maybe a semicolon is missing before `value param’?
05:00:00.417 [ERROR] i.g.a.ZincCompiler$ - .param(""“testparam”"", “”"{“test”: “test_value”}""")
05:00:00.418 [ERROR] i.g.a.ZincCompiler$ - ^
05:00:00.502 [ERROR] i.g.a.ZincCompiler$ - one error found

2

Gatling 2 syntax is different from the one in Gatling 1:
https://github.com/excilys/gatling/wiki/Gatling%202#wiki-bodies

exec(http(“request_1”)
.put("/")
.body(StringBody("""{“test”: “test_value”}"""))
)

param is only for POST

3

I have problem when .body(StringBody("“home”")). In my put request, I tried to put a String wrap around double quotes in the body. But based on the extraInfo.request.getContentLength = -1, I am not sure if this is working correctly. Here’s my request:

exec(http(“setAway”)
.put("/structures/${structureId}/away")
.queryParam(“auth”, “${token}”)
.body(StringBody("“away”"))
)

In curl command, it’d be like: curl -X PUT -L -d ““home”” “https://api.example.com/structures/abc/away?auth=xyz”

4

Have you tried post instead of put?

5

Unfortunately the rest api that I’m testing does not support POST.

6

If you use triple quotes then you wont have to escape it

`
“”" “home” “”"

`

7

Also, http://gatling.io/docs/2.0.3/http/http_request.html#regular-http-request

8

Thanks Abhinav, I just found out that my problem is related to the 307 redirect which I asked in another thread. If I just change the baseUrl to the redirected url, this actually works fine.