I'm trying to test an endpoint which will upload a file and give 200 response status code in cypress. As per some research cy.request cannot be used to upload a file for multipart/form-data so we need to use XMLHttp to upload such files. I have created below file to test the api but it doesn't work. Can someone please help what's wrong with my code ? Thank you.
Added below code under support/commands.ts(I will require a header to pass token from auth endpoint)
// Performs an XMLHttpRequest instead of a cy.request (able to send data as FormData - multipart/form-data)
Cypress.Commands.add('multipartFormRequest', (method,URL, formData,headers, done) => {
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open(method, URL);
xhr.setRequestHeader("accept", "application/json");
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data");
if (headers) {
headers.forEach(function(header) {
xhr.setRequestHeader(header.name, header.value);
});
}
xhr.onload = function (){
done(xhr);
};
xhr.onerror = function (){
done(xhr);
};
xhr.send(formData);
})
Test file to call multipartFormRequest:
const fileName = 'test_file.txt';
const method = 'POST';
const URL = "https://fakeurl.com/upload-file";
const headers = api.headersWithAuth(`${authToken}`);
const fileType = "application/text";
cy.fixture(fileName, 'binary').then((res) => {
const blob = Cypress.Blob.binaryStringToBlob(res, fileType);
const formData = new FormData();
formData.append('file', blob, fileName);
cy.multipartFormRequest(method, URL, headers, formData, function (response) {
expect(response.status).to.equal(200);
})
})
I'm getting this error message:-
Now, I'm getting status code as 0.
describe("Upload image", () => {
it("upload first image", () => {
const fileName = "image.jpeg";
const method = "POST";
const url = "https://api-demo.com/1";
const fileType = "image/jpeg";
cy.fixture(fileName, "binary")
.then((txtBin) => Cypress.Blob.binaryStringToBlob(txtBin))
.then((blob) => {
const formData = new FormData();
formData.append("image_data", blob, fileName);
formData.append("image_format", "jpeg");
cy.form_request(method, url, formData, function (response) {
expect(response.status).to.eq(200)
}
);
})
});
});
Cypress.Commands.add('form_request', (method, url, formData, done) => {
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open(method, url);
xhr.setRequestHeader("device", "331231");
xhr.setRequestHeader("city", "bangalore");
xhr.onload = function () {
done(xhr);
};
xhr.onerror = function () {
done(xhr);
};
xhr.send(formData);
})
Use
const blob = Cypress.Blob.binaryStringToBlob(res, fileType);
and remove the .then().
See Cypress.Blob
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Version 5.0.0
Changes:
Return type of arrayBufferToBlob, base64StringToBlob, binaryStringToBlob, and dataURLToBlob methods changed from Promise<Blob> to Blob
I am attempting to write a method so that i pass the url and application name and it return the response. I read that I can apply callback to resolve this but I am not able to resolve the issue. Any help would be appreciated.
Please find below my code snippet.
var response = getResponse(url,applicationName)
console.log("response from getResponse \n" +response);
function getResponse(url,applicationName){
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", url, true);
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
xhr.send(JSON.stringify({
"application": applicationName
}));
xhr.onload = function() {
console.log(this.responseText);
}
return xhr.responseText;
}
You can use the onreadystatechange method to handle XHR responses, try this:
//XHR POST
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest; // creates new object
const url = 'https://api-to-call.com/endpoint';
const data = JSON.stringify({"application": applicationName}); // converts data to a string
xhr.responseType = 'json';
xhr.onreadystatechange = () => {
if(xhr.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {
return xhr.response;
}
}
xhr.open('POST', url); // opens request
xhr.send(data); // sends object
you should use promise instead of callback and do something like that.
const url = "https://httpbin.org/post";
const applicationName = "test";
getResponse(url, applicationName)
.then(response => {
//work here, not outside
console.log(response);
})
.catch(error => {
console.log(error);
})
function getResponse(url, applicationName) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", url, true);
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
xhr.send(JSON.stringify({
"application": applicationName
}));
xhr.onload = function() {
// print JSON response
if (xhr.status >= 200 && xhr.status < 300) { // if valid
// work here
const response = JSON.parse(xhr.response.replace(/"/g, '"'));
const data = JSON.parse(response.data.replace(/"/g, '"'));
resolve(data);
}
reject(xhr.response); // reject and return the response if not valid
}
})
}
If you want to learn more about asynchronous https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Asynchronous/Concepts, I invite you to go to this website to learn a little more about the promise.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Asynchronous/Promises
The callback is executed after the code returned xhr.responseText. So that means xhr.responseText returns null.
I would recommend using the fetch API opposed to the older XMLHttpRequest you are using now. The fetch API is basically a Promise based XMLHttpRequest.
Your function would look something like:
async function getResponse( url, applicationName ) {
const json = JSON.stringify({
"application": applicationName
});
return fetch( url, {method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type':'application/json'}, body: json} );
}
// access like this
getResponse( url, applicationName)
.then( response => { console.log(response) });
async function someFunction( url, applicationName ) {
// or pause the code while the request is fetched by using await, note that you need to be in a function that is declared async to use this approach.
const response = await getResponse( url, applicationName );
}
Fetch documentation can be found at MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch
I am using javascript to make a POST request, and it works fine when I open my index.html file in the browser and click on the 'POST' button that I have linked to the following code. However, I would like to move this to server side and due to the numerous posts online I am confused as to how to do that? Any help is appreciated.
This is my working js code which returns the values in JSON format
const sendRequest = (method, url, data) => {
const promise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open(method, url);
xhr.setRequestHeader(
"accessToken",
"AB 1234"
);
xhr.setRequestHeader("requestId", "req");
xhr.setRequestHeader("deviceId", "dev");
xhr.responseType = "json";
if (data) {
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
}
xhr.onload = () => {
if (xhr.status >= 400) {
reject(xhr.response);
} else {
resolve(xhr.response);
}
};
xhr.onerror = () => {
reject("Something went wrong!");
};
xhr.send(JSON.stringify(data));
});
return promise;
};
It's not clear how your server connects to your front-end, is it through an API? Is it react? So I'm giving you the most basic answer I could think of, but try to bring more details.
I'm assuming you already have a nodejs server ready to make this request.
The XMLHttpRequest belongs to browser's API and you can'y use it in Node.js, but there are two ways to do it:
1. Use the Node.js HTTP api
2. Use a lib
I think is very important to know how the HTTP api works, but I'm giving you the short answer using a lib called Axios.
const axios = require('axios')
const sendRequest = (method, url, data) => {
axios({
method,
url,
data
})
}
As stated node does not have XHR, but you should be able to re-implement the request without a great deal of effort by using a request
node-fetch resource: https://github.com/node-fetch/node-fetch
Example Request:
const fetch = require('node-fetch');
const body = {a: 1};
fetch('https://httpbin.org/post', {
method: 'post',
body: JSON.stringify(body),
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
})
.then(res => res.json())
.then(json => console.log(json));
I Have a problem with the variable this in angularjs2 and ionic 2
I have this fuction:
getAnuncio(id_anuncio){
console.log(id_anuncio)
var token=this.local.get('token')._result;
var headers= new Headers();
headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
headers.append('Authorization', 'Token '+token);
datos="id_anuncio="+id_anuncio;
this.http.post('http://127.0.0.1:8000/envios/getAnuncioPorId/',datos , {
headers: headers
})
.subscribe(success => {
this.anuncio=success.json();
console.log("BIENNN");
console.log(success);
console.log(this.anuncio);
return this.anuncio;
}
}
I call it from another function:
cargarMapa(){
this.anuncio=this.getAnuncio(this.envio.anuncio);
console.log(this.anuncio);
//console.log(anuncio);
//this.getOferta(this.envio.oferta);
//console.log(this.oferta)
}
But when I try to log this.anuncio, it is undefined.
I need to store the data in a variable to use it from other function.
Anybody could help me?
Here is the code: https://github.com/p02diada/cyclaClientv2/blob/master/app/pages/sending-details/sending-details.js
You could leverage the do operator this way for this:
getAnuncio(id_anuncio){
console.log(id_anuncio)
var token=this.local.get('token')._result;
var headers= new Headers();
headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
headers.append('Authorization', 'Token '+token);
datos="id_anuncio="+id_anuncio;
this.http.post('http://127.0.0.1:8000/envios/getAnuncioPorId/',datos , {
headers: headers
})
.map(res => success.json())
.do(data => {
this.anuncio = data;
});
}
This way you can subscribe on the observable outside the getAnuncio method:
this.anuncio=this.getAnuncio(this.envio.anuncio).subscribe(
(anuncio) => {
// do something
console.log(anuncio);
}
);
Don't forget that things are asynchronous.
If you want to implement a kind of cache, use the following:
getAnuncio(id_anuncio){
if (this.anuncio) {
return Observable.of(this.anuncio);
} else {
var token=this.local.get('token')._result;
var headers= new Headers();
(...)
}
}
By using the this.anuncio directly is that you can't be sure that the data are there...
Is there a way to send data using the POST method without a form and without refreshing the page using only pure JavaScript (not jQuery $.post())? Maybe httprequest or something else (just can't find it now)?
You can send it and insert the data to the body:
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", yourUrl, true);
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
xhr.send(JSON.stringify({
value: value
}));
By the way, for get request:
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
// we defined the xhr
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (this.readyState != 4) return;
if (this.status == 200) {
var data = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
// we get the returned data
}
// end of state change: it can be after some time (async)
};
xhr.open('GET', yourUrl, true);
xhr.send();
The Fetch API is intended to make GET requests easy, but it is able to POST as well.
let data = {element: "barium"};
fetch("/post/data/here", {
method: "POST",
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify(data)
}).then(res => {
console.log("Request complete! response:", res);
});
If you are as lazy as me (or just prefer a shortcut/helper):
window.post = function(url, data) {
return fetch(url, {method: "POST", headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}, body: JSON.stringify(data)});
}
// ...
post("post/data/here", {element: "osmium"});
You can use the XMLHttpRequest object as follows:
xhr.open("POST", url, true);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8");
xhr.send(someStuff);
That code would post someStuff to url. Just make sure that when you create your XMLHttpRequest object, it will be cross-browser compatible. There are endless examples out there of how to do that.
Also, RESTful lets you get data back from a POST request.
JS (put in static/hello.html to serve via Python):
<html><head><meta charset="utf-8"/></head><body>
Hello.
<script>
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "/postman", true);
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
xhr.send(JSON.stringify({
value: 'value'
}));
xhr.onload = function() {
console.log("HELLO")
console.log(this.responseText);
var data = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
console.log(data);
}
</script></body></html>
Python server (for testing):
import time, threading, socket, SocketServer, BaseHTTPServer
import os, traceback, sys, json
log_lock = threading.Lock()
log_next_thread_id = 0
# Local log functiondef
def Log(module, msg):
with log_lock:
thread = threading.current_thread().__name__
msg = "%s %s: %s" % (module, thread, msg)
sys.stderr.write(msg + '\n')
def Log_Traceback():
t = traceback.format_exc().strip('\n').split('\n')
if ', in ' in t[-3]:
t[-3] = t[-3].replace(', in','\n***\n*** In') + '(...):'
t[-2] += '\n***'
err = '\n*** '.join(t[-3:]).replace('"','').replace(' File ', '')
err = err.replace(', line',':')
Log("Traceback", '\n'.join(t[:-3]) + '\n\n\n***\n*** ' + err + '\n***\n\n')
os._exit(4)
def Set_Thread_Label(s):
global log_next_thread_id
with log_lock:
threading.current_thread().__name__ = "%d%s" \
% (log_next_thread_id, s)
log_next_thread_id += 1
class Handler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
Set_Thread_Label(self.path + "[get]")
try:
Log("HTTP", "PATH='%s'" % self.path)
with open('static' + self.path) as f:
data = f.read()
Log("Static", "DATA='%s'" % data)
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(data)
except:
Log_Traceback()
def do_POST(self):
Set_Thread_Label(self.path + "[post]")
try:
length = int(self.headers.getheader('content-length'))
req = self.rfile.read(length)
Log("HTTP", "PATH='%s'" % self.path)
Log("URL", "request data = %s" % req)
req = json.loads(req)
response = {'req': req}
response = json.dumps(response)
Log("URL", "response data = %s" % response)
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header("Content-type", "application/json")
self.send_header("content-length", str(len(response)))
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(response)
except:
Log_Traceback()
# Create ONE socket.
addr = ('', 8000)
sock = socket.socket (socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
sock.bind(addr)
sock.listen(5)
# Launch 100 listener threads.
class Thread(threading.Thread):
def __init__(self, i):
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
self.i = i
self.daemon = True
self.start()
def run(self):
httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(addr, Handler, False)
# Prevent the HTTP server from re-binding every handler.
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46210672/
httpd.socket = sock
httpd.server_bind = self.server_close = lambda self: None
httpd.serve_forever()
[Thread(i) for i in range(10)]
time.sleep(9e9)
Console log (chrome):
HELLO
hello.html:14 {"req": {"value": "value"}}
hello.html:16
{req: {…}}
req
:
{value: "value"}
__proto__
:
Object
Console log (firefox):
GET
http://XXXXX:8000/hello.html [HTTP/1.0 200 OK 0ms]
POST
XHR
http://XXXXX:8000/postman [HTTP/1.0 200 OK 0ms]
HELLO hello.html:13:3
{"req": {"value": "value"}} hello.html:14:3
Object { req: Object }
Console log (Edge):
HTML1300: Navigation occurred.
hello.html
HTML1527: DOCTYPE expected. Consider adding a valid HTML5 doctype: "<!DOCTYPE html>".
hello.html (1,1)
Current window: XXXXX/hello.html
HELLO
hello.html (13,3)
{"req": {"value": "value"}}
hello.html (14,3)
[object Object]
hello.html (16,3)
{
[functions]: ,
__proto__: { },
req: {
[functions]: ,
__proto__: { },
value: "value"
}
}
Python log:
HTTP 8/postman[post]: PATH='/postman'
URL 8/postman[post]: request data = {"value":"value"}
URL 8/postman[post]: response data = {"req": {"value": "value"}}
You can use XMLHttpRequest, fetch API, ...
If you want to use XMLHttpRequest you can do the following
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", url, true);
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
xhr.send(JSON.stringify({
name: "Deska",
email: "deska#gmail.com",
phone: "342234553"
}));
xhr.onload = function() {
var data = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
console.log(data);
};
Or if you want to use fetch API
fetch(url, {
method:"POST",
body: JSON.stringify({
name: "Deska",
email: "deska#gmail.com",
phone: "342234553"
})
}).then(result => {
// do something with the result
console.log("Completed with result:", result);
}).catch(err => {
// if any error occured, then catch it here
console.error(err);
});
There is an easy method to wrap your data and send it to server as if you were sending an HTML form using POST.
you can do that using FormData object as following:
data = new FormData()
data.set('Foo',1)
data.set('Bar','boo')
let request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open("POST", 'some_url/', true);
request.send(data)
now you can handle the data on the server-side just like the way you deal with reugular HTML Forms.
Additional Info
It is advised that you must not set Content-Type header when sending FormData since the browser will take care of that.
Did you know that JavaScript has it's built-in methods and libs to create forms and submit them?
I am seeing a lot of replies here all asking to use a 3rd party library which I think is an overkill.
I would do the following in pure Javascript:
<script>
function launchMyForm()
{
var myForm = document.createElement("FORM");
myForm.setAttribute("id","TestForm");
document.body.appendChild(myForm);
// this will create a new FORM which is mapped to the Java Object of myForm, with an id of TestForm. Equivalent to: <form id="TestForm"></form>
var myInput = document.createElement("INPUT");
myInput.setAttribute("id","MyInput");
myInput.setAttribute("type","text");
myInput.setAttribute("value","Heider");
document.getElementById("TestForm").appendChild(myInput);
// To submit the form:
myForm.method = "POST";
myForm.action = "whatever.aspx"; // or "response.php"
myForm.submit();
// This will create an INPUT equivalent to: <INPUT id="MyInput" type="text" value="Heider" /> and then assign it to be inside the TestForm tags.
}
</script>
This way (A) you don't need to rely on 3rd parties to do the job. (B) It's all built-in to all browsers, (C) faster, (D) it works, feel free to try it out.
I hope this helps.
H
navigator.sendBeacon()
If you simply need to POST data and do not require a response from the server, the shortest solution would be to use navigator.sendBeacon():
const data = JSON.stringify({
example_1: 123,
example_2: 'Hello, world!',
});
navigator.sendBeacon('example.php', data);
The most popular answers here do not show how to get data back from the POST. Also, the popular "fetch" solutions do not work in the latest version of Chrome when sending data to the latest version of NodeJS unless you pass headers and also unwrap the response.json() promise. Also, the popular answers do not use async/await.
Here is the cleanest and most complete solution I could come up with that works.
async function postJsonData(jsonObject) {
const response = await fetch("/echo", {
method: "POST",
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify(jsonObject)
});
const actualResponse = await response.json();
}
Here is a nice function you (or anyone else) could use in their code:
function post(url, data) {
return new Promise((res, rej) => {
let stringified = "";
for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(data))
stringified += `${stringified != '' ? '&' : ''}${key}=${value}`
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = () => {
if (xhr.readyState == 4)
if (xhr.status == 200)
res(xhr.responseText)
else
rej({ code: xhr.status, text: xhr.responseText })
}
xhr.open("POST", url, true);
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
xhr.send(stringified);
})
}
const data = { username: 'example' };
fetch('https://example.com/profile', {
method: 'POST', // or 'PUT'
headers: {
' Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify(data),
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => {
console.log('Success:', data);
})
.catch((error) => {
console.error('Error:', error);
});
You can also use this: https://github.com/floscodes/JS/blob/master/Requests.js
You can easily send a http-Request. Just use:
HttpRequest("https://example.com", method="post", data="yourkey=yourdata");
That's it! It should even work if the site is CSRF-protected.
Or just send a GET-Request by using
HttpRequest("https://example.com", method="get");
use this func of jbezz library
var makeHttpObject = function () {
try {return new XMLHttpRequest();}
catch (error) {}
try {return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");}
catch (error) {}
try {return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");}
catch (error) {}
throw new Error("Could not create HTTP request object.");
}
function SendData(data){
let type = (data.type ? data.type : "GET")
let DataS = data.data;
let url = data.url;
let func = (data.success ? data.success : function(){})
let funcE =(data.error ? data.error : function(){})
let a_syne = (data.asyne ? data.asyne : false);
let u = null;
try{u = new URLSearchParams(DataS).toString();}catch(e){u = Object.keys(DataS).map(function(k) {return encodeURIComponent(k) + '=' + encodeURIComponent(DataS[k])}).join('&')}
if(type == "GET"){url +="?"+u}
const xhttp = makeHttpObject();
xhttp.onload = function(){func(this.responseText)}
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4)
{if(xmlHttp.status !== 200){funcE(xmlHttp.statusText)}}}
xhttp.open(type,url,a_syne);
xhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
xhttp.send(u);
}
use this to run :
SendData({
url:"YOUR_URL",
asyne:true,
type:"POST", // or GET
data:{
username:"ali",
password:"mypass" // Your Data
},
success:function(Result){
console.log(Result)
},
error:function(e){
console.log("We Have Some Error")
}
});
Or
download jbezz and add to your page.
download link : github.com
use :
$$.api({
url:"YOUR_URL",
asyne:true,
type:"POST", // or GET
data:{
username:"ali",
password:"mypass" // Your Data
},
success:function(Result){
console.log(Result)
},
error:function(e){
console.log("We Have Some Error")
}
});