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davecoleman
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4 years ago

Extract nested JSON response values in DataSource for JSON - how to export to file / excel?

Hi all, I have a datasource for JSON which looks at the response of a REST Response is outputting the nested array of IDs within it. there are e.g. 8 values output for this response of "bookingID"....
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    sonya_m
    4 years ago

    Richie, nmrao, thank you for your help!

     

    Hi davecoleman ! Were you able to solve this? Please share your solution with the Community if you were.

    Otherwise, please either provide nmrao with the info they are requesting or, alternatively, contacting support can bring clarity to this, as well. 

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richie
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Hey davecoleman,

Could you confirm exactly what the json looks like please? I always struggle with the row path and column path fields on this thing.

Ta,

Rich
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davecoleman
Contributor
4 years ago

Hi richie 

Hope this helps. Don't want to give away the full listing.

 

I ran the full functional test and it only output 1 value when there should be a few thousand. it comes down to an array on the output from this datasource. I can look towards a Groovy script but if ReadyAPI provides it without scripting, even better.

 

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    richie
    Community Hero
    4 years ago
    Hey davecoleman,

    Cheers i just needed to appreciate the basic structure, so the bookings attribute is either an object or array and it contains repeating objects which contains a bookingId attribute and you want to save off the bookingId attribute values.....right?

    Yeah, its gonna need some groovy i reckon. The way you have setup the datasource has a single transfer property....each one would park off a single bookingId. I dont see any way of doing it....especially as you say there could be many and the number isnt fixed.

    Dunno if anyone else can think of any other non groovy options, but i cant!

    Ta

    Rich
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      davecoleman
      Contributor
      4 years ago

      thanks richie . ill do some work on this and report back....

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        davecoleman
        Contributor
        4 years ago

        Hi,

        So I've used JsonSlurper to view the response and have extracted the related records to the Log. 

        Now how do I pass each into an array / list to export via the Datasink? 

         

         

        import groovy.json.*
import groovy.util.*

def json='[{    "message" : "Success",    "bookings" : [       {          "bookingId" : 60002172,          "bookingDate" : "1900-01-01T00:00:00"       },       {          "bookingId" : 59935582,          "bookingDate" : "1900-01-01"       },       {          "bookingId" : 53184048,          "bookingDate" : "2019-01-15",          "testId" : "12803798123",          "overallScore" : "PASS"       },       {          "bookingId" : 53183765,          "bookingDate" : "2019-01-15T13:45:00"       },       {          "bookingId" : 52783312,          "bookingDate" : "1900-01-01"       }    ] } ]'

def response = context.expand( json )
def parsedjson = new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText(response)
log.info parsedjson
log.info " Count of records returned: " + parsedjson.size()
log.info " List of bookingIDs in this response: " + parsedjson.bookings*.bookingId

         

         

        Any pointers would be appreciated. I could also work with exporting the list here on each iteration of the loop to a CSV file. but it would be good to know how a property could be created to use.