How To Use Fiddler With ASP.NET Web API Testing

John Kocer
Oct 11, 2017
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Part 1 - Manual testing with Fiddler

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If you are developer, tester, or a manager, sometimes understanding the various methods of API can be a challenge when building and consuming the application.

Generating good documentation and help pages for your Web API, using Fiddler with .NET is as easy as making some HTTP calls.

Let’s start by downloading simple To-do projects from GitHub.

Download and run the below TodoMvcSolution from below link.

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Download Fiddler

Fiddler is one of the best tools for analyzing and testing network traffic including Web API calls.

You can download and install Fiddler from below web site.

Here is the APIs we want to test; Get, Post, Put and Delete for this application.

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Here are the Web APIs we want to test.

//Copyright 2017 (c) SmartIT. All rights reserved.
//By John Kocer
// This file is for Swagger test, this application does not use this file
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using SmartIT.Employee.MockDB;
namespace TodoAngular.Ui.Controllers
{
[Produces("application/json")]
[Route("api/Todo")]
public class TodoApiController : Controller
{
TodoRepository _todoRepository = new TodoRepository();
[Route("~/api/GetAllTodos")]
[HttpGet]
public IEnumerable<SmartIT.Employee.MockDB.Todo> GetAllTodos()
{
return _todoRepository.GetAll();
}
[Route("~/api/AddTodo")]
[HttpPost]
public SmartIT.Employee.MockDB.Todo AddTodo([FromBody]SmartIT.Employee.MockDB.Todo item)
{
return _todoRepository.Add(item);
}
[Route("~/api/UpdateTodo")]
[HttpPut]
public SmartIT.Employee.MockDB.Todo UpdateTodo([FromBody]SmartIT.Employee.MockDB.Todo item)
{
return _todoRepository.Update(item);
}
[Route("~/api/DeleteTodo/{id}")]
[HttpDelete]
public void Delete(int id)
{
var findTodo = _todoRepository.FindById(id);
if (findTodo != null)
_todoRepository.Delete(findTodo);
}
}
}

Note

Your local port number may be different than our, use your local port number.

http://localhost:63274/api/GetAllTodos // GET
http://localhost:63274/api/AddTodo //POST
http://localhost:63274/api/UpdateTodo //PUT
http://localhost:63274/api/DeleteTodo/5 // DELETE

Testing GET with Fiddler

Testing GET is very easy.
First, we need to click Composer tab on the Fiddler app.
Next, select Parsed tab below the Execute line.
Then, set Http Action from the dropdown list as GET.
Then, we need to type or paste into the API URL box;
http://localhost:63274/api/GetAllTodos
Then, click Execute.

To see the resold version, we need to double click our API link on the Progress Telerik Fiddler Web Debugger window.

If the GET is successful, we see the status: 200 OK.

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This will bring the Fiddler -Detail View with GET information loaded like below. We have to make sure to select correct tabs to see the return list.

To see what we sent as Raw: MENU: Inspectors >> Raw Tab .
To see to response as Raw: Response Raw Tab.

Testing POST with Fiddler

First, we need to set Http Action from the dropdown list as POST.
Then, we need to type or paste into the API URL box.
AddTodo API accepts a Todo object in JSON format. We need to pass a new Todo JSON data.
http://localhost:63274/api/AddTodo
To pass JSON data we need to Select Body Tap.
Select the Raw
Add Content-Type: application/json into post request option under Host.
Write or paste your Todo JSON data.
1. {
2. "id": 0,
3. "name": "Order an Amazon Alexa"
4. }

Then, click the Execute.

If the GET successful we see the status: 200 OK.

You will see Status:200 for success and the return value in the Return Body Tap. We send Publish Fiddler Todo item with id=0 and we received id=5 as result.

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Testing PUT with Fiddler

First, we need to set Http Action from the dropdown list.
Then, we need to type or paste into the API URL.
http://localhost:63274/api/UpdateTodo
UpdateTodo API accepts a Todo object in JSON format. We need to pass an existing Todo JSON data.
To pass JSON data we need to Select Body Tab.
Select the Raw format.
Add Content-Type: application/json into post request option under Host.
Write or paste your Todo JSON.
1. {
2. "id": 5,
3. "name": "Order an Amazon Alexa-DONE"
4. }

Then click the blue Execute

If the GET is successful, we see the status: 200 OK.

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You will see Status:200 for success and the return value in the Return Body Tap. We send Publish Fiddler Todo item with "name": " Order an Amazon Alexa-DONE " we received updated todo result.

Testing DELETE with Fiddler

First, we need to set Http Action from the dropdown list as DELETE.
Then, we need to type or paste into the API URL box.
DeleteTodo/5 API accepts an id on the We need to pass an existing Todo with and Id value.
Then, click Execute.