[jboss-user] [JBoss Tools] - Using the RESTeasy Project Example and the WS Tester

[Brian Fitzpatrick]

Brian Fitzpatrick [http://community.jboss.org/people/bfitzpat] modified the blog post:

"Using the RESTeasy Project Example and the WS Tester"

To view the blog post, visit: http://community.jboss.org/community/jbosstools/blog/2010/06/28/using-the-resteasy-project-example-and-the-ws-tester

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Now that the WS Tester is getting more stable and feature complete, I wanted to try it against a RESTeasy web service (JAX-RS) deployed against one of our own runtimes. I simply used the steps we'd defined earlier for using the RESTeasy project example on  http://community.jboss.org/wiki/UsingtheRESTEasySimpleProjectExampleinJBDS3 this wiki page.

To do this yourself, follow these steps:
1. Grab a recent build of JBoss Tools 3.2 (go [ http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/nightly/ http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/nightly/ and use the latest trunk build). Install it into an Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) instance.
2. Make sure you have an EAP 5 or SOA-P 5 runtime ready with RESTeasy installed.
3. Fire up your Eclipse workbench and follow the steps  http://community.jboss.org/wiki/UsingtheRESTEasySimpleProjectExampleinJBDS3 here to get your RESTful web service project into your workbench (steps 1 through 10).
4. Get a bit familiar with the WS Tester by checking out  http://community.jboss.org/community/jbosstools/blog/2010/05/26/testing-web-services this post and  http://community.jboss.org/community/jbosstools/blog/2010/06/04/testing-web-services-from-wsdls this post.
5. Open the WS Tester view by selecting Window->Show View->Other... Drill down until you find "JBoss Tools Web Services" and select the Web Service Tester.
6. To post a new customer to the service database:
* Select JAX-RS as your Web Service Type.
* Switch the HTTP Method to "POST".
* Type in your Service URL:  http://localhost:8080/simple/rest-services/customers http://localhost:8080/simple/rest-services/customers.
* Put in your sample XML in the Request Body tab:
<customer>
<first-name>Bill</first-name>
<last-name>Burke</last-name>
<street>256 Red Hat Lane</street>
<city>Boston</city>
<state>MA</state><zip>02115</zip>
<country>USA</country>
</customer>
* On the Request Header tab, add "content-type=application/xml" as the lone header.
* Click the Invoke button.
* You won't see anything in the Response Body tab to the right, but if you go to the Response Header, you should see "[HTTP/1.1 201 Created]" as the top line in the list. You should also see the Location ( http://localhost:8080/simple/rest-services/customers/# http://localhost:8080/simple/rest-services/customers/# where # is the record number for the entry).

7. To retrieve a record from the service:       
* Change the HTTP Method to "GET".
* Change the Service URL to the Location value you saw in step 6 ( http://localhost:8080/simple/rest-services/customers/1 http://localhost:8080/simple/rest-services/customers/1)
* Click the Invoke button.
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* This time you should see the XML record in the Response Body tab and [HTTP/1.1 200 OK] as the first Response Header.
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8. To update a record from the service:
* Change the HTTP Method to "PUT".
* Leave the URL the same (for the record you want to update).
* Provide the updated XML for the record:
<customer>
<first-name>Gary</first-name>
<last-name>Lamperillo</last-name>
<street>123 Red Hat Court</street>
<city>Venice</city>
<state>CA</state>
<zip>90291</zip>
<country>USA</country>
</customer>
* Click the Invoke button.
* Like when you POSTed before, you won't see anything in the Response Body, but you should see [HTTP/1.1 204 No Content] as the first item in the Response Header list.
* To verify that the data went through correctly, we can do another GET - simply switch the HTTP Method to "GET" and click Invoke again.
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* Now we should see the updated data appear in the Response Body and [HTTP/1.1 200 OK] as the first item in the Response Header list.

And that's it! Pretty easy. Didn't even have to leave Eclipse to test!

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