more improvements to the headers demo example

intest · Sep 10, 2017 · 31c8f28 · 31c8f28
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diff --git a/karate-demo/src/test/java/demo/headers/headers.feature b/karate-demo/src/test/java/demo/headers/headers.feature
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Background:
     And match responseCookies !contains { blah: '#notnull' }
 
 Scenario: configure function
+    this is the approach that most projects would use, especially if some header needs
+    to be dynamic for each request. for e.g. see how a 'request_id' header is set in 'headers.js'
+
     * configure headers = read('classpath:headers.js')
     Given path 'headers', token
     And param url = demoBaseUrl

diff --git a/karate-demo/src/test/java/headers.js b/karate-demo/src/test/java/headers.js
@@ -2,9 +2,13 @@ function() {
   var token = karate.get('token');
   var time = karate.get('time');
   if (token && time) {
+    var uuid = java.util.UUID.randomUUID(); // create a unique id for each request
     // demoBaseUrl was available at the time this function was declared
     // and so behaves like a constant, use 'karate.get' for dynamic values
-    return { Authorization: token + time + demoBaseUrl };
+    return { 
+        Authorization: token + time + demoBaseUrl,
+        request_id: uuid 
+    };
   } else {
     return {};
   }