Bazooka is a generic shooter application designed to test and debug APIs, retrieving a response for the provided request and configuration. The main idea is to allow developers to create plug-ins that will reuse a set of available libraries (mostly web services-related) through scripting languages (e.g. Groovy, Ruby, Javascript, Python, etc). Currently only Groovy is supported.

Bazooka is built with Google Web Toolkit 2.0 and Guice 2.0. The back-end uses the Java Persistence API with Hibernate as concrete implementation targeting an H2 database, and Groovy 1.6.5 is utilized as scripting engine.

• /Toolbox/gwt-2.0.0
• /Toolbox/repository/com/google/gwt/gwt-dev/2.0.0/gwt-dev-2.0.0.jar
• /Toolbox/repository/com/google/gwt/gwt-servlet/2.0.0/gwt-servlet-2.0.0.jar
• /Toolbox/repository/com/google/gwt/gwt-user/2.0.0/gwt-user-2.0.0.jar
• /Toolbox/repository/com/gwtext/gwtext/2.0.5/gwtext-2.0.5.jar
• /Workspace/bazooka > mvn clean package jetty:run-war

HTTP Shooter:

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*

method = new GetMethod(url)

new HttpClient().executeMethod(method)
response = new String(method.responseBody)

method.releaseConnection()

response

Each time you take a shot, the following variables are bound to the scripting context:

• request: the provided payload
• requests: a list containing the existing requests
• parameters: a map containing the provided parameters

Additionally, each parameter is individually set as binding variable.

bazooka.server.util.XmlFormatter.format '<foo><bar>abc</bar></foo>'

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