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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.
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Source Code
<html
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">
<head>
<title>REST Service Tester</title>
<style 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%;}
</style>
<xf:model>
<xf:instance id="atomFeed">
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>Atom Feed</title>
</feed>
</xf:instance>
<xf:instance id="resource">
<root xmlns="">
<resource>http://xformstest.org/cgi-bin/echo.sh</resource>
</root>
</xf:instance>
<xf:instance xmlns="" id="messages">
<messages>
<xforms-submit-error>
<error-type/>
<resource-uri/>
<response-status-code/>
<response-headers/>
<response-reason-phrase/>
<response-body/>
</xforms-submit-error>
<xforms-submit-done>
<resource-uri/>
<response-status-code/>
<response-headers/>
<response-reason-phrase/>
</xforms-submit-done>
</messages>
</xf:instance>
<xf:submission id="submit" replace="none" ref="instance('atomFeed')" method="post"
mediatype="application/atom+xml">
<xf:resource value="instance('resource')/resource"/>
<xf:action ev:event="xforms-submit-error">
<xf:setvalue ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/error-type"
value="event('error-type')"/>
<xf:setvalue ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/resource-uri"
value="event('resource-uri')"/>
<xf:setvalue ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/response-status-code"
value="event('response-status-code')"/>
<xf:setvalue ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/response-headers"
value="event('response-headers')"/>
<xf:setvalue
ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/response-reason-phrase"
value="event('response-reason-phrase')"/>
<xf:setvalue ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error/response-body"
value="event('response-body')"/>
</xf:action>
<xf:action ev:event="xforms-submit-done">
<xf:setvalue ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-done/resource-uri"
value="event('resource-uri')"/>
<xf:setvalue ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-done/response-status-code"
value="event('response-status-code')"/>
<xf:insert nodeset="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-done/response-headers"
origin="event('response-headers')"/>
<xf:setvalue
ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-done/response-reason-phrase"
value="event('response-reason-phrase')"/>
</xf:action>
</xf:submission>
</xf:model>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">XForms Service Tester</div>
<!-- Form for entering the resource URI -->
<xf:group ref="instance('resource')">
<xf:label class="group-label">Submission Data</xf:label>
<span class="prompt-nl">Enter the web address (URL) to which you would like to submit the instance:</span>
<xf:input ref="resource" class="url"/>
</xf:group>
<!-- Submit Response Messages -->
<xf:group ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-error">
<xf:label class="group-label">Error Messages</xf:label>
<xf:output ref="error-type">
<xf:label>
<xf:output value="name(.)"/>
</xf:label>
</xf:output>
<xf:output ref="resource-uri">
<xf:label>
<xf:output value="name(.)"/>
</xf:label>
</xf:output>
<xf:output ref="response-status-code">
<xf:label>
<xf:output value="name(.)"/>
</xf:label>
</xf:output>
<xf:output ref="response-headers">
<xf:label>
<xf:output value="name(.)"/>
</xf:label>
</xf:output>
<xf:output ref="response-reason-phrase">
<xf:label>
<xf:output value="name(.)"/>
</xf:label>
</xf:output>
<xf:output ref="response-body">
<xf:label>
<xf:output value="name(.)"/>
</xf:label>
</xf:output>
</xf:group>
<xf:group ref="instance('messages')/xforms-submit-done">
<xf:label class="group-label">Submit Done Messages</xf:label>
<xf:output ref="resource-uri">
<xf:label>
<xf:output value="name(.)"/>
</xf:label>
</xf:output>
<br/>
<xf:output ref="response-status-code">
<xf:label>
<xf:output value="name(.)"/>
</xf:label>
</xf:output>
<xf:group ref="response-headers">
<xf:label class="group-label">
<xf:output value="name(.)"/>
</xf:label>
<xf:repeat nodeset="../header">
<xf:output ref="./value">
<xf:label><xf:output ref="../name"/>: </xf:label>
</xf:output>
</xf:repeat>
</xf:group>
<xf:output ref="response-reason-phrase">
<xf:label>
<xf:output value="name(.)"/>
</xf:label>
</xf:output>
</xf:group>
<!-- Submission Button -->
<xf:submit ev:event="DOMActivate" submission="submit">
<xf:label>Submit</xf:label>
</xf:submit>
</body>
</html>
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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