Parallel flows

You can execute and compare responses from multiple API calls in parallel in YAML tests

This instruction is required when you want to fire multiple API calls in parallel and compare their responses. A simple use case for this would be to test for race conditions in an API by sending multiple requests in parallel.

To configure Akto test YAML for multiple parallel requests, set type: parallel. All the requests defined under this block are fired at the same time.

execute: 
  type: parallel    # this means multiple requests are configured to run in parallel
  requests: 
   - req: 
     ...
   - req:
     ...  

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For each request in a parallel flow, you can now use

• A global validate block to test for a certain response across all parallel requests.

• A local validate block for each individual request.

• A local validate block and global validate block.

If multiple validate blocks are used, all the validate blocks will be evaluated using the Logical AND operation.

Example 1 - Try adding body parameters to each request with a global validate block applying to all of them.

execute:
  type: parallel
  requests:
  - req:
    - add_body_param:
        test1: one
  - req:
    - add_body_param:
        test2: two
  - req:
    - add_body_param:
        test3: three
validate:
  response_code:
    gte: 200
    lt: 300

Example 2 - Use local validate blocks on each parallel request, and a global validate block for a common condition.

execute:
  type: parallel
  requests:
  - req:
    - add_body_param:
        test1: one
    - validate:
        response_payload:
          regex: ".*\"test1\":\"one\".*" 
  - req:
    - add_body_param:
        test2: two
    - validate:
        response_payload:
          regex: ".*\"test2\":\"two\".*" 
  - req:
    - add_body_param:
        test3: three
    - validate:
        response_payload:
          regex: ".*\"test3\":\"three\".*"
validate:
  response_code:
    gte: 200
    lt: 300

Note: A maximum of 10 requests can be made in parallel.