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Philip_CA
Philip_CA

Reputation: 103

Testcafe - retreive data from Request Payload

I need to retrieve information from a POST call using Testcafe.

What I need to do manually is:

  1. open developers tool in Chrome,
  2. catch a traffic and filter by specific request name,
  3. go to Headers -> Request Payload

In the Request Payload I need to check flag of isMode.

{timestamp: 9017205278, master: "s",…}
> ads: [{format: 19521, tag: "19521", target: "", isMode: false},…]
   > 0: {format: 19521, tag: "19521", target: "", isMode: false}
        format: 19521
        isMode: false
   > 1: {format: 19522, tag: "19522", target: "", isMode: true}
> appName: ""
> master: "s"
> screen: {height: 1080, width: 1920}
> timestamp: 9017205278

I am able to get info from requests using this method https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/documentation/guides/advanced-guides/intercept-http-requests.html#log-http-requests

but to be honest I have no idea how to retreive info like in this example as above.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 838

Answers (1)

Philip_CA
Philip_CA

Reputation: 103

Ok finally I was able to solve this issue and retreive these data.

First, I had to create new RequestLogger where I checked that I need log request body and I want to store it in a string, not as a Buffer.

const headerLogger = RequestLogger(RegExp('call$'), {
    logRequestHeaders: true,
    logRequestBody: true,
    stringifyRequestBody: true,
});

Then I changed an object to a string because it was easier to check if log contains specific string.

const requestPayloadString : string = headerLogger.requests[0].request.body.toString();

Finally, my assertion looks like this. I compare wheter actual string contains expected string.

await t.expect(requestPayload).contains(`{format: 19522, tag: "19522", target: "", isMode: true}`)

Upvotes: 2

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