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Posted on by Diana Birkelbach 3,072 Most Valuable Professional

Right now using WebAPI requests (retrieveRecord, createRecord, ...) or Utility.getEntityMetadata pcf-sdk requests inside harness fails.

I can understand why, but this will make harder to make real development/testing inside harness.

There is already an idea about dataset harness sample data: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/Allow-sample-data-for-DataSet-component-in-harness-pcf-start/idi-p/292499

 

Would it be possible to allow us to define some sample data for the webAPI requests? That would allow us to make also some unitests.

Or maybe we could configure a connection to CRM/CDS, where this requests could take the data inside harness too?

Is there another way to work arround this problem?

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  • alchin Profile Picture
    alchin Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi Diana,

     

    As you point out making WebAPI calls in the harness is not supported today.  We have explored some options to test scenarios where custom controls make WebAPI calls.  We are still evaluating these options.  However, at the moment there isn't a workaround for testing these calls.

     

    Thank you,

    Alex

  • Hemant Gaur Profile Picture
    Hemant Gaur Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi Diana,

    Logging as idea\feature request for the same will help here. 

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/News-Announcements/Feature-requests-Ideas-for-PowerApps-component-framework/m-p/292415#M256

     

    hemant

  • Diana Birkelbach Profile Picture
    Diana Birkelbach 3,072 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Thanks Smiley Happy

    I've postet it here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/PCF-WebApi-and-Metadata-Requests-inside-harness/idi-p/303819

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