You can send requests to services that use an HTTP endpoint.
Procedure
To send a request to an HTTP service:
- Click the Open the Generic Service Client toolbar button and select the Requests page.
- Click the Add icon and click a type of request that you want to send or in Request Library, right-click
EndPoints and select a type of request that you want to send.
- In the Configure Protocol window, select HTTP and
specify the HTTP transport configuration. If necessary, click New to create an HTTP transport configuration for
the call.
To send the HTTP/2 requests, in the Create HTTP Protocol
configuration window, click the Activate check box. Before
capturing the HTTP/2 traffic, configure the computer. See topic for
instructions.
- Type the URL of the call, the HTTP method and version, and specify any header or cookie
properties. Click the Rest mode check box to split the URL into resource and
parameters.
- Click Next.
- On the Select Root Element page, if the service uses a specific XML Schema
Definition (XSD), select one from the list or click Browse to import the XSD
file, and then, select the root element for the request. If no XSD is available for the service, select No Schema.
- Click Finish. The request is added to the Endpoints section of the
Request Library.
- In the Request Library, select the request element. The generic service client shows three steps: Edit Request,
Invoke, and View Response. The details for the request
are displayed under the Edit Request step.
- Based on the request selected in Step 2, on the Message page, use the
Form, Tree, or Source views to edit
the contents of the request. Each view shows a different format of the same data. To add or remove XML elements in the
Form or Tree view, click to comply with an XSD specified in the schema catalog.
- On the Attachments page, specify any file attachments to send with the
request. To add an attachment, click Add and follow the wizard to attach a file
with the request.
- On the Transport page, if necessary, change the transport configuration to
be used by the request. To create and edit transport and security configurations, use the
Transport tab.
- If you selected SOAP XML request in step 2, on the Request Stack page,
specify whether you want to override the security or processing algorithms that are applied to the
outgoing request for the WSDL file. To add a Response Stack page to edit the security or processing
algorithms for incoming responses, click Show Response Stack.
Note: These
settings apply only to the current request. To edit the request or response stack for all requests
that use the current WSDL file, click Edit WSDL Security to open the
WSDL Security Editor.
- When you are ready, click Invoke to send the service request. The generic service client sends the request and displays the message return under the
View Response step.
What to do next
Successful requests are recorded and added to the
Request
History list. If you are using
IBM Rational Performance Tester or
IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality,
you can create a service test by clicking the
Generate Test Suite button
(
).