[Help] Sending a request in Pre Request Script using axios

[tho-gru-38]

Hi,

I want to check by sending a request to my API if some work is done. Therefore I worked on the axios library to get this done. Unfortunately I am not able to simply send a request an evaluate the output.

console.log("Axios-send-request: Pre Request - Start");

const axios = require("axios");

const urls = [
  "https://httpbin.org/get",
  "https://jsonplaceholder.org/users"
];

const url = urls[0];
console.log("url = " + url);

axios.get(url)
.then(response => {
    console.warn("The response is:", response);
  }).catch(error => {
  console.error('The error is:', error);
  });


console.log("Axios-send-request: Pre Request - End");

So I started with the above script stored as pre request script in a request.

Here the issue is that neither the "The response is:" nor the 'The error is:' message appear on the console. Further more none of these messages do appear at all.

Because I want to implement a comparison of the response the pre request script must wait until the response (or error) returns form the request.

As I am new to JavaScript I even do not understand why none of the messages appear. :-(

Kind Regards
Thomas

PS: I already read the following pages:
#535
#385 (comment)
#1388
#765
https://blog.logrocket.com/how-to-make-http-requests-like-a-pro-with-axios/
https://axios-http.com/docs/post_example

[tho-gru-38]

Hi,

After getting some help from my Colleges I found the following solution:

console.log("Axios-send-request: Pre Request - Start");

const axios = require("axios");

// if you need to ignore invalid SSL certificate
const https = require('https');
const agent = new https.Agent({  
 rejectUnauthorized: false
});

const urls = {
  httpbin: "https://httpbin.org/get",
  jsonWork: "https://jsonplaceholder.org/users",
  jsonError: "https://jsonplaceholder.org/users-xxx",
  };


var headerObject = {};

// do not show the password unencrypted in the console
const username = bru.getEnvVar("AuthorizationBasicUsername");
const password = bru.getEnvVar("AuthorizationBasicPassword");
const encoded = Buffer.from(username + ':' + password).toString('base64');

// add new or overwrite existing header field Authorization
headerObject.Authorization = 'Basic ' + encoded;
console.warn("headerObject = ", headerObject);

const configs = {
  empty: {},
  ignoreSSLcert : {
    headers: headerObject,
    httpsAgent: agent
  }
}

const url = urls.jsonError;
console.log("url = " + url);

const config = configs.ignoreSSLcert;
console.log("config = ", config);


async function sendRequest() {
  await axios.get(url, config).then(response => {
  console.warn('Success:', response.status, response.data);
}).catch(error => {
  console.error('An error occured:', error);
});
}

await sendRequest();

console.log("Axios-send-request: Pre Request - End");

Perhaps this post help someone else.

Kind Regards
Thomas