HTTP

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Task performs a HTTP request to a specified endpoint.

This is useful if the scenario is using a non-HTTP user or a request to a URL other than the one under testing is needed, e.g. for testdata.

Step implementations

• From endpoint payload

• From endpoint payload and metadata

• To endpoint text

• To endpoint file (source will become contents of the specified file)

Arguments

Name	Type	Description	Default
direction	RequestDirection	impicit specified by which step implementation is used	required
endpoint	str	URL to perform GET request from	required
name	str	name used in locust statistics	required

Authentication

To enable authentication for HttpClientTask the auth context tree has to be correctly set. This is done by using Set context variable step, where the branches are prefixed with <host>/, e.g.:

And value for variable "foobar" is "none"
And value for variable "url" is "https://www.example.com/api/test"
And set context variable "www.example.com/auth.user.username" to "bob"
And set context variable "www.example.com/auth.user.password" to "password"
And set context variable "www.example.com/auth.user.redirect_uri" to "/authenticated"
And set context variable "www.example.com/auth.provider" to "https://login.example.com/oauth2"
And set context variable "www.example.com/auth.client.id" to "aaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd"

Then get from "https://{{ url }}" with name "authenticated-get" and save response payload in "foobar"

This will make any requests towards www.example.com to get a token from http://login.example.com/oauth2 and use it in any requests towards www.example.com.

For more details, see [AAD][grizzly.auth.aad] documentation.