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Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill

Reputation: 8396

No Payload Detected when using JMeter with a REST Webservice and XML body

I am using JMeter to do load-testing. My test consists of a simple POST request. When I perform this request, the server, in its error logs, says No Payload Detected. I have verified that the server is receiving a Post request, and I have tried different texts in the Raw Post Body.

Next, to make sure it wasn't a problem with the server, I used a different Http Request program (Wiztools rest client) to send off a post with the same content. It works, and no No Payload Detected error is thrown.

My current theory is that both JMeter and the server do parsing. I know the server does, as it is looking for a small piece of data, and that JMeter's parsing ruins that small piece of data.

So, in conclusion, my question is "What parsing does JMeter do?".
I've looked for this answer, and the only thing I know that it does parse is ${VARNAME}.

The text I am sending is below:

<IpReport xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="">
  <ProductReviewId>12345</ProductReviewId>
  <DepartmentCode>ABC</DepartmentCode>
  <ProductTitle>Test of a teaser</ProductTitle>
  <ProjectId>2</ProjectId>
  <ProductCodePD>ICS-1139150</ProductCodePD>
  <Priority>Pre-Approved</Priority>
  <Status>Approved</Status>
  <IpStatus>Submitted</IpStatus>
  <EvalStatus>Approved</EvalStatus>
  <EvalNotes>No Limitations - message from eval</EvalNotes>
  <Notes>Notes test</Notes>
  <IsInClarity>true</IsInClarity>
  <IsPreRelease>true</IsPreRelease>
  <IsApproved>true</IsApproved>
  <IsCOREvalIP>false</IsCOREvalIP>
  <Elements>
    <IpReportElement>
      <IpReportElementLineItemId>21774</IpReportElementLineItemId>
      <ElementType>ReportingStatement</ElementType>
      <Contributor>Sample Contributor</Contributor>
      <Description>test</Description>
      <LocationInProduct>test</LocationInProduct>
      <ReportingStatementId>7</ReportingStatementId>
      <IpCodeId>3</IpCodeId>
      <Links>
        <IpReportLink>
          <IpReportLinkId>25982</IpReportLinkId>
          <Name>Link</Name>
          <Url>https://example.org/</Url>
        </IpReportLink>
      </Links>
    </IpReportElement>
  </Elements>
  <CustomData>&lt;site&gt;ldsorg&lt;/site&gt;
&lt;site-root&gt;/preview/ldsorg/&lt;/site-root&gt;
&lt;correlation-document-id&gt;123456-eng&lt;/correlation-document-id&gt;
&lt;post-to-server&gt;l12773:9239&lt;/post-to-server&gt;
</CustomData>
  <ApprovalNumber>2013-1139150-I</ApprovalNumber>
  <EvalApprovalNumber>2013-1139150-E</EvalApprovalNumber>
</IpReport>

Here is an screenshot of JMeter. This is the only request, with no other config elements: JMeter Screenshot

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5803

Answers (2)

UBIK LOAD PACK
UBIK LOAD PACK

Reputation: 34566

You may also need to add an HTTP Header Manager as a child of HTTP Request to set some header like content-type:

Adding an HTTP Header

Upvotes: 8

Aliaksandr Belik
Aliaksandr Belik

Reputation: 12873

  1. First of all. In your question above, both in screenshot and in request text part of request has symbols < and > encoded and part - not. And you are using Content Encoding = UTF-8 in addition. Seems that in this situation request will be sent malformed.
    You can add e.g. View Results Tree listener and check how the request is sent from jmeter.

  2. You can try dedicated REST Sampler as well.

Upvotes: 1

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