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Tambu
New Contributor
2 years ago

Incrementing string value in payload

Hi, I have a test that POST a .json. One of the .json attributes is 'Response Name' and is a string. I need to make this value unique. so whenever the test case is executed this value should be uniq...
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JoostDG
Frequent Contributor
2 years ago

Hi Tambu .

You could provide a random GUID. Use a groovy script test step or setup script with:

def randomResponseName= UUID.randomUUID().toString()
log.info randomResponseName

I personally find it handy to generate a string based on the date of today. That way, the string is more meaningful. Example:

 

import java.time.LocalDateTime
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter

TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone('UTC'))
LocalDateTime nowLocal = LocalDateTime.now()
DateTimeFormatter formatCET = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'").withLocale(Locale.US)
String randomResponeName = "MyRandomResponseName_" + formatCET.format(nowLocal)
log.info randomResponeName

result = "MyRandomResponseName_2022-10-14T11:14:34.424Z", which will be different each time.

 

Note: You can adjust the default timezone to anything else than "UTC" to match your local time, but then I would remove the TZD value 'Z' from the pattern. (I'd always recommend to use UTC)