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How to trigger Spark Java Web Framework request programmatically

Is there a way for Spark Framework to trigger request programmatically? Say we have
http.get("/hello/:route_param") { "Hello Spark!" }
How it could be called, with proper path, query, body etc, something like:
http.call(
url = "/hello/alex?a=b",
body = "{ value: 20 }"
) // => "Hello Spark!"
P.S.
I need it to add batch /batch route - so it will be possible to call it with the list of other routes and parameters and get back list of results.

If by "programmatically" you mean "without firing up an HTTP server and performing an HTTP request" than I think the answer is no. Spark does not provide such a capability out of the box.
There are a few possible workarounds:
You could start Spark in your application and fire an HTTP request. An example of this approach is in an integration test I wrote for my Spark add-on
Use MockRunner's Servlet module to create a (fake) HttpServletRequest. Use RequestResponseFactory.create(HttpServletRequest) to turn that into a Spark Request. Similarly for responses. Refactor the Spark Route to be a separate class, and invoke that using the Request and Response variables that you just created.

Amazon S3 AWS SDK [Java] - MultiPart Upload how to get a custom header in the http response?

how can I access a custom header from a server response when using TransferManager ?
we have a custom header added in the response from our server, from the client side we use multi part upload with default transfer manager
any suggestion how in how i could hook up it ?
so basically i want to pass over the response from the return response.getAwsResponse(); found in the class: AmazonS3Client on the method
private <X, Y extends AmazonWebServiceRequest> X invoke(Request<Y> request,
HttpResponseHandler<AmazonWebServiceResponse<X>> responseHandler,
String bucket, String key, boolean isAdditionalHeadRequestToFindRegion) {
that response will have the HTTP response from the server containing the custom heather which I'm after, basically is a unique Id send back when the file was 100% completed so than i can manipulate it.
I need to pass over this custom header from the response to the very beginning where I use the transfer manager and the upload.waitForCompletion(),
also i don't want to edit the amazon's,
so does anyone know if there is an interface or some other object which provides me access to it ?

After some debug into the framework I strongly believe that there is no way to have access to the http response when using the TransferManager
for what we are trying to do we need to send an unique id from the server to the client when the file upload is completed and assembled
** therefore if you don't mind in do not use the beauty of the TransferManager you could write "your own TransferMananger" than you will have full control, but again on the client side we don't really want to add custom code but have a standard and simple approach (but that is for my scenario), if you decide to do it manually it can be done I have already tried and works !
So as a alternative we though in send from the server via the eTag, which is not great but will do the job and will keep the client side simple and clean
Any suggestion in how to send this value back in a better way ?
Upload up = tm.upload(bucketName, file.getName(), file);
UploadResult result = (UploadResult) ((UploadImpl) up).getMonitor().getFuture().get();
String uniqueIdFromServer = result.getETag();

jmeter - how to build a request out of a response's results?

I'm looking into Jmeter to load test a webapp.
What is done in the real app when a user clicks a button is :
1. an http request is sent to a server and the response contains a list of ids.
2. another request which is formulated by the list of ids is sent to server.
I'm interested in the overall performance of both steps.
for example:
send request to http://server.com/getsomething
I get a json looks like:
{"ids":[11,22,33,44,55,66]}
I take the ids and build another request like http://server.com/getSomethingElse?
ids=11,22,33,44,55,66
How can I simulate a test like this in jmeter?

You will have to do something of following sort.
Thread group
HTTP Sampler 1 (Send request to http://server.com/getsomething)
(one ore more) Regular Expression extractor post processor (Extract IDs).
HTTP Sampler 2 (2nd request http://server.com/getsomethingElse?IDs)
Tree view listener (To see whats going on)
You may find following beginners jmeter screen cast helpful.
http://my.kpoint.com/kapsule/gcc-e1bad3ad-61cf-4620-9733-e44a74af8a3e/t/jmeter-tutorial-regex-extractor-basics

Open an authenticated image served by django from java using Apache http client

I Am serving an authenticated image using django. The image is behind a view which require login, and in the end I have to check more things than just the authentication.
Because of a reason to complicated to explain here, I cannot use the real url to the image, but I Am serving it with a custom url leading to the authenticated view.
From java the image must be reachable, to save or display. For this part I use Apache httpclient.
In Apacahe I tried a lot of things (every example and combination of examples...) but can't seem to get it working.
For other parts of the webapp I use django-rest-framwork, which I succesfully connected to from java (and c and curl).
I use the login_reuired decorator in django, which makes the attempt to get to the url redirect to a login page first.
Trying the link and the login in a webviewer, I see the 200 code (OK) in the server console.
Trying the link with the httpclient, I get a 302 Found in the console.... (looking up 302, it means a redirect..)
this is what I do in django:
in urls.py:
url(r'^photolink/(?P<filename>.*)$', 'myapp.views.photolink',name='photolink'),
in views.py:
import mimetypes
import os
#login_required
def photolink(request, filename):
# from the filename I get the image object, for this question not interesting
# there is a good reason for this complicated way to reach a photo, but not the point here
filename_photo = some_image_object.url
base_filename=os.path.basename(filename_photo)
# than this is the real path and filename to the photo:
path_filename=os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT,'photos',mac,base_filename)
mime = mimetypes.guess_type(filename_photot)[0]
logger.debug("mimetype response = %s" % mime)
image_data = open(path_filename, 'rb').read()
return HttpResponse(image_data, mimetype=mime)
by the way, if i get this working i need another decorator to pass some other tests....
but i first need to get this thing working....
for now it's not a secured url.... plain http.
in java i tried a lot of things... using apache's httpclient 4.2.1
proxy, cookies, authentication negociation, with follow redirects... and so on...
Am I overlooking some basic thing here?...
it seems the login of the website client is not suitable for automated login...
so the problem can be in my code in django....or in the java code....

In the end the problem was, using HTTP authorization.
Which is not by default used in the login_required decorator.
adding a custom decorator that checks for HTTP authorization did the trick:
see this example: http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/243/

SOAP web service calls from Javascript

I'm struggling to successfully make a web service call to a SOAP web service from a web page. The web service is a Java web service that uses JAX-WS.
Here is the web method that I'm trying to call:
#WebMethod
public String sayHi(#WebParam(name="name") String name)
{
System.out.println("Hello "+name+"!");
return "Hello "+name+"!";
}
I've tried doing the web service call using the JQuery library jqSOAPClient (http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jqSOAPClient).
Here is the code that I've used:
var processResponse = function(respObj)
{
alert("Response received: "+respObj);
};
SOAPClient.Proxy = url;
var body = new SOAPObject("sayHi");
body.ns = ns;
body.appendChild(new SOAPObject("name").val("Bernhard"));
var sr = new SOAPRequest(ns+"sayHi",body);
SOAPClient.SendRequest(sr,processResponse);
No response seems to be coming back. When in jqSOAPClient.js I log the xData.responseXML data member I get 'undefined'. In the web service I see the warning
24 Mar 2011 10:49:51 AM com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.server.WSHttpHandler handleExchange
WARNING: Cannot handle HTTP method: OPTIONS
I've also tried using a javascript library, soapclient.js (http://www.codeproject.com/kb/Ajax/JavaScriptSOAPClient.aspx). The client side code that I use here is
var processResponse = function(respObj)
{
alert("Response received: "+respObj);
};
var paramaters = new SOAPClientParameters();
paramaters.add("name","Bernhard");
SOAPClient.invoke(url,"sayHi",paramaters,true,processResponse);
I've bypassed the part in soapclient.js that fetches the WSDL, since it doesn't work
(I get an: IOException: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine on the web service side). The WSDL is only retrieved for the appropriate name space to use, so I've just replaced the variable ns with the actual name space.
I get exactly the same warning on the web service as before (cannot handle HTTP method: OPTIONS) and in the browser's error console I get the error "document is null". When I log the value of req.responseXML in soapclient.js I see that it is null.
Could anyone advise on what might be going wrong and what I should do to get this to work?

I found out what was going on here. It is the same scenario as in this thread: jQuery $.ajax(), $.post sending "OPTIONS" as REQUEST_METHOD in Firefox.
Basically I'm using Firefox and when one is doing a cross domain call (domain of the address of the web service is not the same as the domain of the web page) from Firefox using AJAX, Firefox first sends an OPTIONS HTTP-message (before it transmits the POST message), to determine from the web service if the call should be allowed or not. The web service must then respond to this OPTIONS message to tell if it allows the request to come through.
Now, the warning from JAX-WS ("Cannot handle HTTP method: OPTIONS") suggests that it won't handle any OPTIONS HTTP-messages. That's ok - the web service will eventually run on Glassfish.
The question now is how I can configure Glassfish to respond to the OPTIONS message.
In the thread referenced above Juha says that he uses the following code in Django:
def send_data(request):
if request.method == "OPTIONS":
response = HttpResponse()
response['Access-Control-Allow-Origin'] = '*'
response['Access-Control-Allow-Methods'] = 'POST, GET, OPTIONS'
response['Access-Control-Max-Age'] = 1000
response['Access-Control-Allow-Headers'] = '*'
return response
if request.method == "POST":
# ...
Access-Control-Allow-Origin gives a pattern which indicates which origins (recipient addresses) will be accepted (mine might be a bit more strict than simply allowing any origin) and Access-Control-Max-Age tells after how many seconds the client will have to request permission again.
How do I do this in Glassfish?

Have you actually tested that ws is working properly?
You can use SoapUI for inspecting request/response etc.
When you confirm that ws is working from SoapUI, inspect what is format of raw Soap message. Then try to inspect how it looks before sending with .js method, and compare them.
It might help you understand what is wrong.

Check if this helps
http://bugs.jquery.com/attachment/ticket/6029/jquery-disable-firefox3-cross-domain-magic.patch
it's marked as invalid
http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/6029
but it might give you some hint
On the other hand, instead to override proper settings for cross-domain scripting might be better if you can create and call local page that will do request to ws and return result.
Or even better, you can create page that will receive url as param and do request to that url and just return result. That way it will be more generic and reusable.