Return a VSI response as PDF file

Products

• CA Application Test
• CA Continuous Application Insight (PathFinder)
• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

This document describes the steps taken to configure a VSI transaction to send a PDF file in the response.

Environment

All supported DevTest releases.

Resolution

Open the VSI and select the transaction that will return the PDF file as response.

Go to the response and change the response editor to General/ Binary.

 

Once you change the type of payload, the response tab will show three icons:

 

Select the first icon. It allows us to load the content of a local file into the response body.

Select the PDF file to be sent as response:

 

Select the second icon to save the content of the response body to a new local file.

 

Open the new file in a text editor and add the following information to the text file.

In the first line add:
------=_Part_0_1578916788.1457518808008 Content-Type: application/pdf Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-ID: <EBF7DF6EAB32B0970B33B96138F6C306> 

In the last line add:
------=_Part_0_1578916788.1457518808008---------- 

There are no spaces and empty lines before and after these lines.

Save the modified file. 

Back in the VSI response, reload the modified PDF file in the response, using the load icon.

 

In the Response Meta Data, modify or add the the header Content-Type = application/pdf.

Save the VSI and deploy the VSM to the VSE Service.

This will load the PDF file when the request sent matches this specific transaction.

To send the PDF file as an attachment that will be downloaded to the local 'Download" folder, add the Content-Disposition as attachment:

Save the VSI and deploy the VSM to the VSE Service.