Asynchronous Processing

[razvanmuscalu]

Hi,

First of all, this project is awesome; it makes API testing very easy to manage. We discovered it recently but are getting very fond of it.

I am not sure if what I ask needs to be supported by the IntelliJ HTTP client or can be supported by restcli.

We are running API tests in a suite that would mimic a user flow. In between some requests, our services are communicating to each other asynchronously via message queues. For example:

• we hit an API on service A
• service A publishes a message
• service B consumes and processes the message
• we hit an API on service B

We need to be able to introduce some delay between requests so that the message has time to arrive from service A to service B and service B to process the message. Otherwise, our assertions on service B will fail. Alternatively, being able to continuously call the API on service B until the assertion passes (or some timeout occurs) would also help.

Many thanks :)

[quangson91]

Hi @razvanmuscalu
Currently, there is no delay supported between the two requests.
You can fork this project and add some delay time here:
https://github.com/restcli/restcli/blob/master/src/main/java/uos/dev/restcli/HttpRequestFilesExecutor.kt#L144

Since I can only work on my side project on the weekend. So please try the above workaround first.

I will keep this issue to check & implement it in the future.

Thank you!