how to send certain parameters encoded in soap - xml rpc request in jmeter

Question

I am using SOAP/XML-RPC request in jmeter. I have 2 questions

1. If we have a rest endpoint with same url which can serve both GET and POST based on the HTTP method that is sent , how to send GET call using SOAP/XML-RPC request because it inherently sending only POST

2. In the SOAP/XML-RPC Data I am sending like this

   clientid=${clientid}&&instanceid=${instanceid}

   and I want to send encoded data for ${instanceid}. How can I do it using the above sampler
   I know how to implement the above 2 things using HTTP Request sampler. But my requirement is specifically to use SOAP/XML-RPC sampler
   Any Help in this regard is greatly appreciated !!!
   Thanks in advance

Answer 1

SOAP/XML-RPC Request sampler can send only HTTP POST requests by design. See SoapSampler.java code for reference.

If you need to encode your parameters somehow you can use:

• __urlencode() function - to encode parameters as application/x-www-form-urlencoded string
• Beanshell Pre Processor - for any other encoding supported (Base64, MD5, etc.)

If you need to send HTTP GET request you have to either use HTTP Request Sampler in combination with HTTP Header Manager to send "Content-Type" header with the value of "text/xml" or develop your own sampler on top of the SoapSampler.