Suppose that you'd like to test a given Google API to send a message to a recipient with the following information:

• API under test: Users.messages: send.
• URI: https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send
• Authentication scheme: OAuth 2.0
• Header fields: Content-type: application/json
• In the request body, supply a Users.messages resource with the following property as the metadata.
  

  Property name	Value	Description
  raw	bytes	The entire email message in base64url encoded string. Tip:  To encode a plain text string into a base64url encoded string, you can use the Online Base64URL encoder tool.

  • Raw body content:
    

                            
                                To: [email protected]
    Subject: This is a test mail
    &nbsp
    This is a test mail
                            
                        

  • Base64url encoded body content:
    VG86IGxvZ2lnZWFyZXBndGVzdDJAZ21haWwuY29tClN1YmplY3Q6IFRoaXMgaXMgdGVzdCBtYWlsCgpUaGlzIGlzIGEgdGVzdCBtYWls
  • Request body declared in JSON format {"raw":"base64url encoded string"}

        
        	setting	value			
setting	max show length	1000000			
&nbsp					
	name	value			
local variable	access token	ya29.Ci-hAwpFBdalNfFs2F4ien63COLAoc5qpTB6OCA1M3OE1ncT7C-17tYDRvgQcdTKgw			
local variable	uri	https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send			
local variable	tm encoded mail content	VG86IGxvZ2lnZWFyZXBndGVzdDJAZ21haWwuY29tClN1YmplY3Q6IFRoaXMgaXMgdGVzdCBtYWlsCgpUaGlzIGlzIGEgdGVzdCBtYWls			
&nbsp					
	schema	value			
authenticate	oauth 2	# access token			
&nbsp					
create http request					
&nbsp					
	key	value			
add http header	Content-type	application/json			
&nbsp					
	content				
add http body	# "{""raw"":""" & tm encoded mail content & """}"				
&nbsp					
	uri	method	timeout	variable	expected code
send http request	# uri	POST	100	>>response	200
&nbsp					
	response	status	header	body	
parse http response	# response	>>status	>>header	>>body	
        
    

• If the variables in arguments status, header, or body are left empty, TestArchitect supplies global variables with the names _status, _header, or _body, respectively.
• For a full list of returned HTTP status code, refer to Status Code Definitions.
• The returned contents of the HTTP header are automatically converted into JSON view. Whereas, the contents of the HTTP body are preserved as they are originally returned by the web service, such as XML, or JSON response, etc.
• In order to see full result returned from this built-in action, set max show length to a higher value.
• This action supports the <ignore> modifier. If the string <ignore> is present as the value of any of the arguments, or any argument contains an expression that evaluates to <ignore>, the action is skipped during execution.