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tadudek
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

How to map repeating elements from xml response to datasink

I've been scouring the doc, and I can't seem to find a good answer here.    Is there a way to map a repeating element from a response into a datasink automatically, rather than having to click getD...
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nmrao
Champion Level 3
5 years ago
Never tried/used data sink.

It is understand there is some customization.
But how it is working with default behaviour when you tried?
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    tadudek
    Occasional Contributor
    5 years ago

    It's currently just pulling the first widget. Because you have to click, get data, and point to the first widget's attributes to map it to the column in excel. It seems that it'd be a common use case to have repeating elements. I did import a schema for the response, and with the schema, it would know that there are repeats. 

     

    I'm guessing I need to write custom groovy to do it.

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      nmrao
      Champion Level 3
      5 years ago
      You are correct by saying that it is common to have repeated elements in the GET response. However, some are ok with default behaviour and you wanted it probably different.
      You can write script in what ever way you wanted.
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        tadudek
        Occasional Contributor
        5 years ago

        nmrao 

         

        Yeah, I was trying to get around having to write script. I know you can just use a xml map in excel and hit import, but I don't want to do that step manually. Was hoping there was a similar feature.