PH40035: HTTP PREPROCESSOR GETCONTENT() RETURNS CONTENT PRIOR TO SUBSTITUTION

Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality 10.2.1

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• The customer is using getContent()/setContent() in a
  preprocessor in order to do complex updating of dynamic POST
  content.
  
  The RPT documentation states:
  
  Note that the pre processor is the last thing to be
  sent to the server after all the processing (data
  substitution) for the request is complete.
  
  Therefore, the assumption was that the string returned by
  getContent() would already contain any substitutions that were
  indicated in the test. However, this is not the case; the string
  returned by getContent() is the unmodified string from the POST
  content.
  
  Furthermore, if the content is modified in the preprocessor such
  that the length is changed, then when RPT applies substitutions
  later, they are applied in the wrong place and mangle the
  content.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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Problem conclusion

• Fixed
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  PERF TESTER WIN

• Fixed component ID

  5724J9601

Applicable component levels

• RA21 PSY

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