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Ludo15101966

Contributor

6 years ago

Groovy and File datasource

Hello, I'm using Ready Api 2.6 to test REST web services I'm trying to access to a File Datasource (CSV) with groovy script I have created a File datasource in my testcase, the list of items se...

richie

Community Hero

Hey Ludovic,

Whats the reason you need groovy? Where you say [quote: Im creating a groovy script to generate a POST json to include in a REST web service step] i dont understand why youre not using the OTB functionality to do this.

Later on in your post you seem to state you want the groovy to process and reports certain datasource stats.

Also you mentioned ypuve found some groovy you thought might work if updated...f you have some groovy, even if it doesnt work its alwaysbest to add it to your post so the groovy scripters on the forum (not me!) will have a better understanding of where youre at in regards to progress.

Example csv and request payload can only help too (although i always forget this bit too!)

Cheers,

rich

Ludo15101966

Contributor

6 years ago

Hello rich

Thanks for your answer

Sorry I don't know what OTB means... you have a link or tutorial ?

I have to generate a small json object to use as POST in my REST web service

I'm use to do it in groovy and store a variable in context

for the first time I'm using datasource to read a set of external parameters,for example

TITLE;MINDATE;MAXDATE

TEST;2001/01/01;2010/01/01

TEST1;2010/01/01;2019/01/01

I have created a datasource FILE step named "DataSource" and the csv seems correctly loaded

I'm looping in datasource with datasource loop, seems ok

In my groovy script I need to get the 3 fields for each line, manipulate the data and build a json structure

def jsonAsText = '''{
"field1" : "string",
"field2" : "string",
"field3" : "string",
}'''
def object = slurper.parseText(jsonAsText)

I found some groovy examples to get datasource fields like

def row = testRunner.testCase.testSteps["DataSource"].currentRow;

def thetitle = context.expand( '${DataSource#TITLE}' )

I looking for a full example of FILE datasource usage in groovy

Thanks for your help

Ludovic

TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
6 years ago
Hi Ludo15101966,

Was the solution found, or do you need any more assistance?
New2API
Frequent Contributor
6 years ago
Ludo15101966 , if your json payload is simple and small you do not need any groovy script. Instead insert json payload as below in your rest step.

{
"field1" : ${DataSource#Title},
"field2" : ${DataSource#MinDate},
"field3" : ${DataSource#MaxDate},
}

In order to facilitate above json you should configure your datadource as shown in the picture. (I also overlaid csv file for your reference)

Hope this helps.

Thanks.