Multiple expected code status

[EliottPaillard]

Hello! When using the inside a after my simulated actor sent an httpmessaging to my SUT, I would expect one among two possible code status. I didn't find any way to do that so far. Am I missing something or this is not possible at the moment? If it's not, could it be feasable to implement this? Thank you!

[costas80]

Hi @EliottPaillard. I have the impression some parts of your question were omitted. What do you mean when you say

When using the inside a after...

If its a matter of checking one value (the HTTP status code), against two possible values that's quite easy to do. One option for example is to use the ExpressionValidator as illustrated below:

<assign to="code1">"200"</assign>
<assign to="code2">"201"</assign>
<assign to="code3">"202"</assign>
<!-- Success -->
<verify handler="ExpressionValidator" desc="Validate code 1">
    <input name="expression">$code1 = "200" or $code1 = "201"</input>
</verify>
<!-- Success -->
<verify handler="ExpressionValidator" desc="Validate code 2">
    <input name="expression">$code2 = "200" or $code2 = "201"</input>
</verify>
<!-- Failure -->
<verify handler="ExpressionValidator" desc="Validate code 3">
    <input name="expression">$code3 = "200" or $code3 = "201"</input>
</verify>

Is this what you're going for? Note that alternatively you could also use something like the RegExpValidator for something more complex.

[EliottPaillard]

Hey, Thank you for the quick answer! Once again, the xml tags I wrote in my message, are not seeable. But you understood well what I meant. I wanted to know if it's possible to do that with the config tag and name="status.code". But ok if not I see how I would do it with a validator. Though I don't know how to catch the status code from the received response

[costas80]

Indeed, the HttpMessaging handler did not return the received HTTP status code as part of its outputs. We just published a fix for this on the development branch and our nightly build channel, that includes a http_status in the receive step's outputs.

The following TDL snippet illustrates how you could accept responses with any status code and check it in a separate step:

<receive id="dataReceived" desc="Receive response" from="A" to="B" txnId="t1"/>
<verify handler="ExpressionValidator" desc="Validate response status as 200 or 204">
   <input name="expression">$dataReceived{http_status} = "200" or $dataReceived{http_status} = "204"</input>
</verify>   

Can you confirm @EliottPaillard that this covers what you need?