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Performance Testing with JMeter 3 - Third Edition
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Performance Testing with JMeter 3 - Third Edition

by Bayo Erinle
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
166 pages
4h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Handling RESTful web services

An increasing number of applications are shifting to RESTful web services due to their simplicity to build, test, and consume as compared to their SOAP counterparts. All REST communication is done over the HTTP protocol between the parties involved. HTTP is used for CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations. The built-in HTTP Request sampler in JMeter is more than up to the task. It supports the GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE operations, among other things. The body of the request can be in XML or JSON format. An HTTP Header Manager component can be used to send additional HTTP header attributes, if needed.

In our sample, we will create a new person in our sample application using a POST request, and then ...

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