API Testing in Selenium IDE

Question

How can Selenium IDE be utilized for API Testing. i.e. Pushing the request to server and getting the response.

Answer 1

This can be done using Javascript - XMLHttpRequest Method.

Create Request, set headers & other parameters, and hit the Server with the body.

Command : Execute Script

Target :

var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
var url = '<URL of PAI to test>';
var method = Method to test (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE)>';
req.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'application/json');
req.open(method, url, false);
req.send(<{REQUEST BODY}>);

Value : <Any variable name to store response>

Screenshot for reference