Unable to find a way to upload attachments using URL to ALM via REST API

Question

I have a way to attach file as binary to ALM using REST API

URL =  "https://some.almserver.com/qcbin/rest/domains/DOMAIN/projects/PROJECT/runs/<run-id>/attachments"

METHOD = "POST"

HEADERS = {

    'cache-control': "no-cache",

    "Slug": "some.html",

    'Content-Type': "application/octet-stream"

}

 

def attach_to_run_step():

    f = open("/path/to/some.html", "rb")

    response = requests.post(URL, headers=HEADERS, cookies=cookies, data=f.read())

    print(response.content)

I couldn't find any way to upload attachments which are in url format (from X website to ALM directly using REST) But from ALM UI, we have option to upload attachment using URL.

Expecting METHOD, HEADERS, Request payload to upload url to ALM.

Answer 1

You need to authenticate and get the ALM session before trying to do anything else.
Check out the Documentation for details.

Here is a sample code (sorry I'm not a Python guy, but it works):

import requests
session = requests.session()
response = session.post("http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/qcbin/authentication-point/alm-authenticate", headers={
    'Content-Type': 'application/xml'
}, data="<alm-authentication><user>user</user><password>password</password></alm-authentication>")

response = session.post("http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/qcbin/rest/site-session")

file = open("/path/to/some.html", "rb")

headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream',
    'Slug': 'some.html'
}
response = session.post("http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/qcbin/rest/domains/DEFAULT/projects/demo/run-steps/1263/attachments", headers=headers, data=file.read())
print(response.text)

Just replace user, password and run-step ID with your own.

P.S. We are developing commercial platform for integrating various test frameworks with ALM, which is called Agiletestware Bumblebee, so you might want to have a look at it.