Auto-tools/Projects/Autolog/Posting with JSON

To post data directly to Autolog with JSON, instead of using the python package mozautolog, you use the following request format, to http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/:

POST /autologserver/addtestgroup HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 1344
Host: brasstacks.mozilla.com
Content-Type: application/json
Connection: close
User-Agent: Python-urllib/2.6

{
  "testsuites": [
    {
      "testsuite": "{the name of the test suite}",
      "testfailures": [
        {
          "testsuite": "{the name of the test suite}",
          "errors": [
            {
              "status": "{status, example: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL}",
              "text": "{description of error, example: [phase2] Exception caught: ASSERTION FAILED! places item not found}"
            }
          ],
          "testgroup_id": null,
          "test": "{filename of test, example: test_sync.js}",
          "testsuite_id": null,
          "logurl": null
        },
        {
          "testsuite": "{the name of the test suite}",
          "errors": [
            {
              "status": "{status, example: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL}",
              "text": "{description of error, example: some other error string}"
            }
          ],
          "testgroup_id": null,
          "test": "{filename of test, example: other_test.js}",
          "testsuite_id": null,
          "logurl": null
        }
      ],
      "failed": {total number of failed tests, example: 1},
      "testgroup_id": null,
      "perfdata": [
        {
           "test": "xperf",
           "perfdata": [
             {
                "type": "diskIO",
                other arbitrary fields...
             },
             {
                "type": "pagefaults",
                other arbitrary fields...
             }
           ]
        }
      ],
      "elapsedtime": null,
      "cmdline": null,
      "passed": {total number of passed tests, example: 10},
      "todo": {total number of todo tests, example: 0}
    }
  ],
  "server": "10.2.76.100:9200",
  "testgroup": {
    "harness": "{name of your test harness}",
    "machine": "{name of the machine running the test}",
    "platform": "{example: win32}",
    "version": "{version Firefox, example: 9.0a1}",
    "branch": null,
    "frameworkfailures": null,
    "pending": false,
    "revision": "{revision of Firefox, example: eef657744227}",
    "buildtype": "{buildtype, either opt or debug}",
    "buildid": "{buildid of Firefox, example: 20110914121048}",
    "date": "{example: 2011-09-29}",
    "testrun": null,
    "logurl": null,
    "testgroup": "{name of your test suite or harness}",
    "builder": null,
    "tree": "{tree Firefox was built from, example: mozilla-central}",
    "productname": null,
    "buildurl": null,
    "os": "{specific os version, example: win7}"
  }
}

You will get back a JSON response which will look something like so:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.8.53
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:11:02 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Connection: close
Allow: GET, POST
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Length: 274 

{
  "testsuites": [
    {
      "testfailures": [
        {
          "testfailure_id": "I1ND25NlT4aTSkjf2aQpEA"
        },
        {
          "testfailure_id": "4gsdkkNlT4aTSkjf2aQpEA"
        },
      ],
      "testsuite_id": "ADdF_xuITXS26XvzYri0rA",
      "perfdata": []
    }
  ],
  "testgroup_id": "pNiMIzkQSZaRckYXKyB2Kg",
  "testrun": "eef657744227.4"
}

The returned JSON contains the id of each of the autolog objects which was created as a result of the POST.

If you'd like to attach log files to any of the testfailures, you can make another POST to do so:

POST /autologserver/savelog?id=I1ND25NlT4aTSkjf2aQpEA&read_index=autolog&write_index=autolog&doc_type=testfailures&server=10.2.76.100:9200 HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 16910
Host: brasstacks.mozilla.com
Content-Type: text/plain
Connection: close
User-Agent: Python-urllib/2.6 

data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUh....\n
data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAAAGSD....\n

The id in the query string should be relevant testfailure_id which was returned from the previous POST.

The 'server' field in the query string, and the 'server' field in the first JSON POST, are set to 10.2.76.100:9200. This is a test instance of ElasticSearch. After you verify that your POST is working correctly, you can remove these from the JSON and the request string.