IM Policy Xpress - Using "REST Base Query"
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How do you pass data to the REST API service using CA Identity Management (IM) Policy Xpress? The Product Documentation provides some details on pass parameters into a Policy Express REST Base Query. This document provides some examples of using Policy Express.
Environment
CA Identity Management 14.x
CA Identity Suite 14.x
Resolution
Example 1:
In this example data ("userId=<id>&title=<title>&body=<body>") is passed to the REST API service
You need to specify the data in the Request Body, in JSON format.
You can run the test from a Data Element with the following settings:
Category:Data Sources
Type: REST Base Query
Function: Basic Auth Invoke
Base URL: http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts
Operation: POST
User Name: dummy
Password: dummy
Request Body: {"userId":1,"title":"Support","body": "Information"}
This test will return the following:
Confirmation: The test has run successfully with following string representational output: "{"id":101,"title":"Support","body":"Information","userId":1}".
This demonstrates that you have properly passed the parameters since they have been processed with success.
Example 2:
How to use CA IM Policy Xpress (PX) to call a REST web service and catch the response of the REST web service.
This example uses the public REST API (below) and stores the return attribute in the Action tab.
https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1
As you can see from the JXplorer screenshot below the value is stored in attr03
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