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SoapUI Cookbook

You're reading from   SoapUI Cookbook Boost your SoapUI capabilities to test RESTful and SOAP APIs with over 65 hands-on recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784394219
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rupert Anderson Rupert Anderson
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Testing and Developing Web Service Stubs With SoapUI 2. Data-driven Testing and Using External Datasources FREE CHAPTER 3. Developing and Deploying Dynamic REST and SOAP Mocks 4. Web Service Test Scenarios 5. Automation and Scripting 6. Reporting 7. Testing Secured Web Services 8. Testing AWS and OAuth 2 Secured Cloud Services 9. Data-driven Load Testing With Custom Datasources 10. Using Plugins 11. Taking SoapUI Further Index

Testing Dropbox using OAuth 2 Implicit Grant flow


In this recipe, we again build directly on the previous one by learning how SoapUI supports the full OAuth 2 Implicit Grant flow. This flow is slightly less complicated than the Authorization Code Grant flow, less secure as it lacks client authentication, and is normally used by browser-based clients.

The example used is exactly the same Dropbox one featured in the previous two recipes. However, the steps here are very short as in the previous recipe's setup, and the concepts will be reused. Meaning that there is far more to understand here than to do!

Getting ready

The SoapUI project DropboxOAuth2 for this recipe is included in the chapter 8 samples.

How to do it...

Given the previous Dropbox test app OAuth 2 config and DropboxProfile under the Auth tab, all we need to do is to use the Implicit Grant flow:

  1. Under the REST Test Request option's Auth tab, click on the Get Token link to bring up the Get Access Token from the authorization server window...

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