Robot Framework API Testing POST Request

Ahmet BAYAR
2 min readJun 28, 2021

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Step-1: import which library you need

*** Settings ***
Library SeleniumLibrary
Library RequestsLibrary
Library Collections

Step-2: set of your variables
*** Variables ***
${baseUrl} https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com
${endPoint} /posts

Step-3: Give a name your test case
*** Test Cases ***
# name of test case
Post Request

Step-4:create session
create session mysesion ${baseUrl}

Step-5: create dictionary
${body}= create dictionary title=foo body=bar userId= 1
${header}= create dictionary Content-Type=application/json

Step-6: make a post request
${response}= post request mysesion ${endPoint} data=${body} headers=${header}

Step-7:convert to string of statuscode
${code}= convert to string ${response.status_code}

Step-8: validation of status code should be equal 201
should be equal ${code} 201

Step-9:convert to string of response.content
${body}= convert to string ${response.content}

Step-10: validation of response.content should contain bar word
should contain ${body} bar

Step-11: get the Content-Type of headers using get from dictionary method
${contentTypeValue}= get from dictionary ${response.headers} Content-Type

log to console ${contentTypeValue}

Step-12:All code of project

*** Settings ***
#import which library you need
Library SeleniumLibrary
Library RequestsLibrary
Library Collections

# set of your variables
*** Variables ***
${baseUrl} https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com
${endPoint} /posts

*** Test Cases ***
# name of test case
Post Request

# create session
create session mysesion ${baseUrl}

# create dictionary
${body}= create dictionary title=foo body=bar userId= 1
${header}= create dictionary Content-Type=application/json

# make a post request
${response}= post request mysesion ${endPoint} data=${body} headers=${header}

#convert to string of statuscode
${code}= convert to string ${response.status_code}
# validation of status code should be equal 201
should be equal ${code} 201

#convert to string of response.content
${body}= convert to string ${response.content}

# validation of response.content should contain bar word
should contain ${body} bar

# get the Content-Type of headers using get from dictionary method
${contentTypeValue}= get from dictionary ${response.headers} Content-Type

log to console ${contentTypeValue}

Step-13:You can reach all code of project from github repo

https://github.com/zoomokul/robotframeworkbasics.git

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