Service Virtualization API v3

[Suman Kumar]

Hi,

Is the Service Virtualization API v3 POST /vses/{vseName}/services/{virtualServiceName} capable to update or add new response of existing virtual service?

We have a use case where the request contains one element named Id and there are two different responses for two different Ids.
How to update/add the new response from the API?
 
 Thanks,

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Suman Kumar
Wells Fargo
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[Marcy Nunns]

Please read this documentation link, section Update a Virtual Service:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/continuous-testing/devtest-solutions/10-5/using/using-the-apis/service-virtualization-api-v3.html

This explains what you can do with updating a VS through the API.

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Technical Support Engineer III
Broadcom, Inc
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[Koustubh Warty]

@Giridharan Jagadeesan - Please assist here. ​​

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Head of Product Management: Service Virtualization
CA Technologies - A Broadcom Company
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[Giridharan Jagadeesan]

Hi Suman,

The Update API is supported with RR pairs only currently. Say, you have RRpair1 with nameid=1 as request and 200 OK as response. And you have created a virtual service VS1 using this RRpair1. Then, say, you have RRpair2 with nameid=2 and response as 201 OK. Using this Update API, you can merge these transactions (RRpair2) to VS1. Now, VS1 will have one element "nameid" with two different Ids and based on the request, you will receive appropriate responses. 

Hope this helps.

[Suman Kumar]

Hi Giridharan,

Let's take a case where RRpair 1 with nameid=1 and response 200.
Then we need to update the response with response 404 without any change in the request.

How can we achieve that?

[Giridharan Jagadeesan]

Hi Suman,

In this case, you need to set overwrite flag to 'true' in the config field before executing the Update api {"transportProtocol":{"overwriteTxns":true}}.

Create using RRpair1 with nameid=1 and response 200
Update using RRpair1 with nameid=1 and response 404 with overwrite flag 'true'

Then when you replay the virtual service, for the same request, the response will be 404 and you'll not get the old response. Pls try and let me know.

Cheers,
Giri

[Suman Kumar]

Thanks Giridharan for the quick response.

I will try and let you know at my earliest convenience.

Can you share list of flags which are missing in the documentation site?

[Giridharan Jagadeesan]

Thanks Suman.

That's the only flag in the Update api. Sorry for the inconvenience in the documentation site, will get that fixed.

Cheers,
Giri

[Suman Kumar]

Hi Giridharan,

It's not working. Can you share the complete config json object?

[Giridharan Jagadeesan]

Hi Suman,

This is it -  {"transportProtocol":{"overwriteTxns":true}}

I request you to raise a ticket for tracking purpose, so that we can have a webex to answer all your questions.

Cheers,
Giri

[Parthiban V]

We also have the same use case, but still looking for solution.