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zsousa's avatar
zsousa
Contributor
9 years ago

Can Groovy run an extral program

I have a third part executable that accepts parameters. I want to call this program and pass in those parameters through Groovy. but its not executing the file.

 

I found this cool utility called "node-csvtojson" it accepts a csv file and returns a nice thirft/json string like so

[1,"getLatePersonPeriodSubmissionsForProgram",1,1,{"1":{"i64":593},"2":{"i64":10101},"3":{"i64":20202}}]

 

I tried running this from Groovy but nothing happens. so then I created a .sh file that contains the following

#! /bin/sh

csvtojson csvdata_csv.csv

 

and I tried calling that from Groovy and nothing happened. 

 

Then I installed Groovy outside of SoapUI and tried running the script and that worked.

 

 

 

 

  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    9 years ago

    Yes, groovy can run an external program.

     

    Here is the script:

     

    String command = "cmd /c csvtojson C:/Temp/mydata.csv"
Process child = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command)
InputStream in1 = child.getInputStream()
def json = in1.text
in1.close()
child.waitFor()
log.info json

  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    9 years ago
    Glad know about node plugin to transfrom csv to json.