extensiveautomation-plugin-web 1.4.0

WEB plugin for extensiveautomation server

WEB plugin for ExtensiveAutomation server

This plugin enable to interact with remote web server through the HTTP protocol. This plugin is based on the curl command.

Table of contents

• Installing from pypi
• Installing from source
• About actions
  • http/curl.yml
• About workflows
  • http/httpbin.yml
  • http/jsonplaceholder.yml

Installing from pypi

1. Run the following command

    pip install extensiveautomation_plugin_web
   

2. Execute the following command to take in account this new plugin

    ./extensiveautomation --reload
   

3. Samples are deployed on data storage

Installing from source

1. Clone the following repository

    git clone https://github.com/ExtensiveAutomation/extensiveautomation-plugin-web.git
    cd extensiveautomation-plugin-web/src/ea/
   

2. Copy the folder sutadapters in the source code server and overwrite-it

    cp -rf sutadapters/ /<install_path_project>/src/ea/
   

3. Copy the folder var in the source code server and overwrite-it

    cp -rf var/ /<install_path_project>/src/ea/
   

4. Finally execute the following command to install depandencies

    cd /<install_path_project>/src/
    python3 extensiveautomation.py --install-adapter WEB
    python3 extensiveautomation.py --reload
   

About actions

http/curl.yml

Send http requests and analysing responses.

Parameter(s):

• agent (text): agent name

• curl-body (text): http request body

• curl-headers (text): additional headers for the request

• curl-hosts (text): remote address

• curl-proxy (text): proxy url

• curl-method (text): http method

• curl-options (text): additional options for curl

• response-body-json (dict): expected json in http response with jsonpath expression

• response-body-text (text): expected string in http response

• response-body-xml (text): expected xml in http response with xpath expression

• response-body-xmlns (text): namespaces

• response-code (integer): reponse code expected

• response-headers (text): list of expected headers in response

• response-phrase (text): response phrase expected

• response-version (text): http version expected in response

About workflows

http/httpbin.yml

This worflow show how to use the curl action and how to extract value from json response.

1. Reuse curl action

- description: Get my origin IP
  file: Common:actions/http/curl.yml

2. Configure parameters

- name: curl-hosts
 value: https://httpbin.org/ip
- name: response-body-json
 value: |
    origin -> [!CAPTURE:externalip:]

http/jsonplaceholder.yml

This worflow show how to use the curl action and POST json data.

- name: curl-hosts
 value: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts
- name: curl-method
 value: POST
- name: curl-headers
 value: |
    Content-Type: application/json
- name: curl-body
 value:
  title: un exemple en français
  body: bonjour
  userId: 1