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TSRAO
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

How to compare 2 Json content from 2 different text files and return only the differences

Hi,   I found the way to save the Json response to a text file and compare both the file contents (the 2 Json responses saved from previous run and current run) by using the Groovy script. But for ...
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KarelHusa
Champion Level 2

TSRAO,

in such a case, you can save your reponses with the date in the filename (e.g., response-20221211.json).

 

Then, in the compare script just refer to yesterday date, i.e. response-20221211.json.

 

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TSRAO
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

Thanks KarelHusa!

 

Not sure how to write the Groovy Script for generating the file with Date/TimeStamp in the file name, can you please suggest me!

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    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    2 years ago

    TSRAO 

     

    Below statement can generate dyname value using date time so that it can be used for saving the filename.

     

    print java.time.ZonedDateTime.now().format(java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyyMMdd-HHmmss"))

    Now, if some content needs to saved into file, below will do

     

    def fileName = java.time.ZonedDateTime.now().format(java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyyMMdd-HHmmss"))

def fileContent = 'you can have your content or response into this variable'
//Save the content into file; you can also add the path below if you want file to be saved in different location
new File("${fileName}.json").write(fileContent)