XForms, Web Service Tester

Motivation

You want a generic tool for testing a REST web service. You want to be able to put in a URI and an instance document and see what data is returned.

Screen Images

before submission (Image: The original uploader was Dmccreary at English Wikibooks ., CC BY-SA 3.0)

after submission (Image: The original uploader was Dmccreary at English Wikibooks ., CC BY-SA 3.0)

Source Code

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms">;

REST Service Tester
type="text/css">
@namespace xf url("http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms");
body {font-family: Ariel,Helvetica,sans-serif;}
.header {font-weight: bold;}
xf|group {border: black solid 1px; padding:10px; margin: 15px 5px;}
.group-label {display:block; position:relative; font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;
background-color: silver; margin: 3px; width: 30%;
padding: 2px 4px; top: -20px; left: -3px;}
.url .xf-value {width: 100%;}

id="atomFeed">
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">;
Atom Feed

id="resource">
xmlns="">
http://xformstest.org/cgi-bin/echo.sh

xmlns="" id="messages">

id="submit" replace="none" ref="instance('atomFeed')" method="post"
mediatype="application/atom+xml">
value="instance('resource')/resource"/>
ev:event="xforms-submit-error">
ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/error-type"
value="event('error-type')"/>
ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/resource-uri"
value="event('resource-uri')"/>
ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/response-status-code"
value="event('response-status-code')"/>
ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/response-headers"
value="event('response-headers')"/>

ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/response-reason-phrase"
value="event('response-reason-phrase')"/>
ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/response-body"
value="event('response-body')"/>

ev:event="xforms-submit-done">
ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-done/resource-uri"
value="event('resource-uri')"/>
ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-done/response-status-code"
value="event('response-status-code')"/>
nodeset="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-done/response-headers"
origin="event('response-headers')"/>

ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-done/response-reason-phrase"
value="event('response-reason-phrase')"/>

class="header">XForms Service Tester

ref="instance('resource')">
class="group-label">Submission Data
class="prompt-nl">Enter the web address (URL) to which you would like to submit the instance:
ref="resource" class="url"/>

ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error">
class="group-label">Error Messages
ref="error-type">

value="name(.)"/>

ref="resource-uri">

value="name(.)"/>

ref="response-status-code">

value="name(.)"/>

ref="response-headers">

value="name(.)"/>

ref="response-reason-phrase">

value="name(.)"/>

ref="response-body">

value="name(.)"/>

ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-done">
class="group-label">Submit Done Messages
ref="resource-uri">

value="name(.)"/>

ref="response-status-code">

value="name(.)"/>

ref="response-headers">
class="group-label">
value="name(.)"/>

nodeset="../header">
ref="./value">
ref="../name"/>:

ref="response-reason-phrase">

value="name(.)"/>

ev:event="DOMActivate" submission="submit">
Submit

Discussion

The response area could be hidden in a switch/case view and a toggle done after submission.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Fraser for this suggestion.

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