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mu123
Occasional Contributor
3 years ago

Assigning active environment name to a variable in ReadyAPI

I have two environments set up for a project. Let's call them env1 and env2. When I set env1 as the active one, the data source used in the test should point to c:/env1/data.csv. Similarly, if env2 i...
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  • KarelHusa's avatar
    KarelHusa
    3 years ago

    If you need exactly the name of your environment, the following can do the trick:

     

    ${#Project#TestDataPath}/Banking_Application/${=project.getActiveEnvironmentName()}/data/filename.csv

     

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KarelHusa
Champion Level 1
3 years ago

A straightforward option is to define a project level property in each environment, e.g. InputCSVPath, and fill it with the path, e.g. c:\tmp\data.csv .

 

In your data source configuration use ${#Project#InputCSVPath} as the file location. Then, if you switch environments, your input files will change accordingly.