Using rest API Calls in Modern UX Channels for Load Testing

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise
• Clarity PPM SaaS

Issue/Introduction

• We are doing load testing of our Merged UI (Modern UX channels and embedded phoenix theme) via a test script.
• Merged New User Experience (UI) has rest API calls whereas phoenix theme has plain HTML noticed in user authentication in Merged UI.
• We're looking for information such as:

1. Logic to generate “x-api-next-string”

2. Authorization Code generation Key/Logic etc

Environment

Release : 15.8

Component : CA PPM INTEGRATIONS & INSTALLATIONS

Resolution

See the following knowledge articles:

• KB: 117342 - Performance Test Script issue with x-api-next-string in PPM
• KB: 118623 - What is the impact of granting API-Access rights in PPM?

Additionally, here's some documentation that can help getting started:

1. Using Clarity REST APIs
2. REST API: Define Clients and Generate Keys for Integrations with Clarity PPM
   • This goes into more detail including specific access such as section: REST API Prerequisites
3. Configure Third-Party Product Integrations

 

Additional Information

See KB: 141061 for tips on how to optimize use of Self Service for Clarity