Test RESTful web services

[marco.rossi]

Good morning,
does exist a way to test the web services into the servoy developer? https://wiki.servoy.com/display/DOCS/RE ... b+Services
Ex: by using an external client to create a get request and getting a response from the servoy developer in which I can put a breakpoint on the underneath code.

I see the admin page listens over the servoy developer port so I was wondering if the defined REST apis do as well.

Thanks
Marco

[mboegem]

does exist a way to test the web services into the servoy developer?

Can't you use Postman for that?

I see the admin page listens over the servoy developer port so I was wondering if the defined REST apis do as well.

Of course, it's just another solution

[marco.rossi]

Hi Marc,
thank you for your reply.

Can't you use Postman for that?

Yes, I am already using Postman to test the REST APIs when they are up and running on a real Tomcat server.

However, what I would like to do is test an API within the Servoy Developer for code testing purposes.
Let's assume that my local Servoy Developer installation is on port 8183, and I have a standalone Tomcat on which I load my war file on port 8383.

When I run my REST APIs on port 8383, everything works smoothly. I receive the expected response in Postman, complete with my custom message based on the processing performed.

The issue arises when I attempt to run the exact same GET request while switching to port 8183.
This is the port on which my developer should be listening since it is used for the admin page. In this case, I receive a 404 (not found) error.


Thank you once again for your assistance.

Best regards,
Marco

[mboegem]

Hi Marco,

If the API solution is active in developer I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work.
I'm doing this all the time.

Are you sure you're using the correct URL?
A major difference could be that you are deploying your solution as 'rossi.war' this would need a URL like this:

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http://localhost:8383/rossi/servoy-service/rest_ws...........

Servoy developer always runs the solution in the tomcat ROOT, so the URL looks like this:

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http://localhost:8183/servoy-service/rest_ws...........

Hope this helps

[marco.rossi]

Hi Marc,
thanks for the answer.

I didn't try it yet but I feel you're 100%, I probably just forgot to remove the subfolder when I call the developer

Thanks for the help!