The Raw Transaction Data view displays
the raw XML, text, or binary content of any service request or response
that is selected in the generic service client.
About this task
The
Raw Transaction Data view displays
plain text, XML, or binary data, depending on the type of the message
content.
Procedure
To view text, XML, or binary message content:
- In the generic service client, click the View menu, and select Raw Transaction Data. If you are using IBM® Rational® Performance Tester
or IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality,
click
- Select a service request or response. If you
are using IBM Rational Performance Tester or IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality, this view is also linked to the
selected request or response in service tests, service stubs, or in
the test log.
- Depending on the nature of the message content, the following
actions are available:
- Text mode
When a plain text element is displayed, you can select and
copy text. Click Colorize Text to enable or
disable text colorization for HTML.
- XML mode
When an XML element is displayed, you can select and copy text.
Click Colorize Text to enable or disable text
colorization for XML. Click Enable XML Pretty Serialization to improve readability by adding line breaks and indentation to
the XML content.
If the XML content is modified by a request
or response stack or by the WSDL security editor, the Stack
Contents pane displays the list of steps in the stack.
You can select each step to view the changes to the XML content. You
can also select one or two steps and click Compare Steps to open a comparison window.
- Binary mode
When a binary element is displayed, you can switch between
Binary and
Raw-ASCII views. Right-click
the binary view to perform the following actions:
- Select: Opens the Select window, where you can select binary data by string or by specifying
the number of characters to select. When a portion of binary data
is selected, you can copy it to the clipboard.
- Go to Offset: Opens the Go to
Offset window, where you can move to bytes at a particular
offset.
- Find: Opens the Find window, where you can search for and replace binary data in a number
of formats.
- Encodings: Select the encoding to use for
displaying binary data in the text column.