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... -------------------------------------------------------------- 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-w... this post and http://community.jboss.org/community/jbosstools/blog/2010/06/04/testing-w... 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. http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-1841-3575/res... http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-1841-3575... * This time you should see the XML record in the Response Body tab and [HTTP/1.1 200 OK] as the first Response Header. http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-1841-3576/res... http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-1841-3576... 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. http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-1841-3577/res... http://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-1841-3577... * 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! -------------------------------------------------------------- Comment by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/community/jbosstools/blog/2010/06/28/using-the...]