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dwel
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8 months ago

How do I prevent a file path from being altered when being parsed by JsonSlurper in Groovy Script?

I have a Groovy Script step which parses though a number of JSON objects from a REST response and saves certain parameters to be used in a following REST request. One of these parameters is the file ...
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  • dwel's avatar
    dwel
    8 months ago

    I was able to find a solution. I added the following line to my groovy script to reformat the file path before saving it in the test case parameters. Heres the line:

    fullFilePath = fullFilePath.replaceAll("\\\\", "\\\\\\\\")

    because a '\' is considered a special character I had to represent it differently in the replaceAll method. The string "\\\\" actually represents a single '\' character and so by doubling the number to 8 backslash characters I was able to properly replace the single '\' with the double backslash again. 

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nmrao
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dwel 

Before anything, would you like to try using / as path separator instead of \\ or \ and see if that helps?

Thanks for the details, will go thru them later.

dwel's avatar
dwel
New Contributor
8 months ago

I was able to find a solution. I added the following line to my groovy script to reformat the file path before saving it in the test case parameters. Heres the line:

fullFilePath = fullFilePath.replaceAll("\\\\", "\\\\\\\\")

because a '\' is considered a special character I had to represent it differently in the replaceAll method. The string "\\\\" actually represents a single '\' character and so by doubling the number to 8 backslash characters I was able to properly replace the single '\' with the double backslash again.