Test rest api method with parameter in JMeter

Question

I'm building load tests for a web API, and I can't get one of them to work.

The url is something like http://myserver/myapp/mymethod and it calls a java method like public void mymethod(mytype param)

And I don't know how to pass that param...

I'm getting this error:

The server refused this request because the request entity is in a format not supported by the requested resource for the requested method (Cannot consume content type).

EDIT:

I've tried setting Content-Type = "application/json" and passing a json parameter but now the server says: An error occured while trying to do a POST request.: java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server

The parameter, which is correct and I can get the values when debugging the webservice is:

{
"email": "name@server.com", 
"login": "name", 
"password": "1234"
}

You need to understand how the layer between HTTP and Java works, is it Spring-MVC ? or something else ? — UBIK LOAD PACK, Jul 13 '13 at 13:30

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 15 '13 at 12:46

Well, the solution was just to pass a json parameter.

My class had the following properties:

private String email;
private String login;
private String password;

So I only needed to build a json object like:

{
"email": "name@server.com", 
"login": "name", 
"password": "1234"
}

and pass it as a parameter to the HTTP Request, with an empty name.

Test rest api method with parameter in JMeter

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