Traffic Parrot 5.41.0 released, what's new?

We have just released version 5.41.0. Here is a list of the changes that came with the release:

Features

• Random mixed case strings of a fixed length can now be generated using

  {{ randomValue length=10 type='ALPHANUMERIC' mixedcase=true }}

• Header values can now be set in Handlebars scripts using

  {{ modifyResponse 'headerValue' 'header-name' 'header-value' }}

• New simplified OpenAPI mock import
  • Enable in trafficparrot.properties by setting:

    trafficparrot.openapi.import.mode=SELECT_RESPONSE_STATUS
    trafficparrot.openapi.skeletons.mode=SELECT_RESPONSE_STATUS

  • When OpenAPI response examples are present, they are used directly as mock responses
  • Otherwise, OpenAPI schema data types and field structures are used to generate a valid mock response
  • The request header x-traffic-parrot-select-response-status can be set to a numeric response code to select which response to return
  • The default response returned is the success response
  • The request body is not included in matching, to simplify the response selection
  • The request URL is used for matching, including checking for mandatory path and query parameters
• Role based UI access to allow defining some read only UI users that are allowed view permissions but not edit permissions
  • Enable in trafficparrot.properties by setting:

    trafficparrot.gui.security.mode=LOGIN_PROPERTIES

  • Define users in trafficparrot.gui.login.properties by setting:

    admin=password,traffic-parrot-gui-role,traffic-parrot-gui-edit-role
    readonly=password,traffic-parrot-gui-role

  • HTTP basic authentication popup prompts users to specify a username and password
• Allow loading gRPC existing proto set files in proto-bin with .set.bin extension (e.g. as output by gRPCurl)
• Added a UI page with instructions on how to provide the required JAR files when working with IBM® MQ

Fixes

• Library upgrades to fix OWASP issues
• {{ evaluate 'variable' }} now recognizes a variable that was set using {{#assign 'variable'}}value{{/assign}}
• Fixed an issue with the default permissions of the lib/external folder on Linux
• Fixed an issue with saving very large XML body mappings in the UI

Changes

• Upgraded protoc from 3.21.9 to 3.23.4
• Upgraded gRPC from 1.51.0 to 1.56.1