HttpLibrary

Authors:

• Shiela Buitizon | email:shiela.buitizon@mnltechnology.com
• Joshua Kim Rivera | email:joshua.rivera@mnltechnology.com

Company: Spiralworks Technologies Inc.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Installation
• Usage
• Keyword Documentation
• Generating Local Documentation
• Execute Unit Test

Introduction

HttpLibrary is test library for web services and restful api.

Installation

Option 1

Install this project using pypi, run:

pip install rf-httplibrary

Option 2
With recent version of pip, it is possible to install directly from GitHub repository. To Install latest source from the master branch, use this command:

pip install git+https://github.com/MainSystemDev/rf-httplibrary.git

Usage

To use HttpLibrary in Robot Framework test(s), the library needs to first be imported using the Library setting as any other library.

*** Settings ***
Documentation                           Simple example using HttpLibrary
Library                                 HttpLibrary

*** Test Cases ***
Test Case Sample One
    New Http Session
    Create Http Get Request             ${url}
    Add Http Request Parameter          ${paramkey1}        ${paramvalue1}
    Add Http Request Parameter          ${paramkey2}        ${paramvalue2}
    Invoke Http Request
    Http Raise For Status
    Close Http Session    

Keyword Documentation

View the latest keyword documentation here for more information about this library.

Install dependecy in local virtual environment

pip install .

Generating Local Documentation

To Generate the keyword Documentation, simply run:

python -m robot.libdoc HttpLibrary docs/index.html

Where: docs.html is the output file. Note that the library must first be installed before generating a documentation.

Execute Unit Test

python -m unittest
python setup.py test

Install requirements-dev.txt in shell runner

This is for running pep8 style guide for python

sudo -H pip install -r requirements-dev.txt