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nsinghal
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2 years ago

Passing comma separated values for a property in Data driven test case

Hi,  I am creating a grid data driven test case using Ready API. For one of the properties, I have to pass multiple comma separated values for a particular property in my REST request. I am not g...
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    nmrao
    2 years ago

    The above generates values without quotes. If that causes any trouble when API is called, then you can try below:

    "taxCodes": ["${= "${Properties#TaxCode}".split(',')*.trim().join(',"') }"],
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    nsinghal
    2 years ago

    The later one as I required my text to be enclosed in double quotes. Just made a minor change in join method. Instead of join(',"') I used join('","') to close the double quotes for each string.

    ["${= "${API Data Driven Source#TaxCode}".split(',')*.trim().join('","')}"]

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nmrao
Champion Level 3
2 years ago

nsinghal 

It can be achieved as below without any additional things.

Basically, read the value from TaxCode of Data source, then splits by comma and trims the spaces if any. When split is applied, it will be automatically become list, no separate [, ] is needed. 

When some additional logic/evaluate needs to be applied, the snippet has be enclosed between ${= <logic> } which is known as Dynamic Property Expansion.

 

Just change from

"taxCodes": [ "${API Data Driven Source#TaxCode}" ], 

to

"taxCodes": ${= "${API Data Driven Source#TaxCode}".split(',')*.trim() },
  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    2 years ago

    The above generates values without quotes. If that causes any trouble when API is called, then you can try below:

    "taxCodes": ["${= "${Properties#TaxCode}".split(',')*.trim().join(',"') }"],
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    nsinghal
    New Contributor
    2 years ago

    Thanks nmrao for the help here. It indeed helped.

    Your help is much appreciated.

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      nmrao
      Champion Level 3
      2 years ago

      nsinghal 

      Which one did you use out of the above two?

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        nsinghal
        New Contributor
        2 years ago

        The later one as I required my text to be enclosed in double quotes. Just made a minor change in join method. Instead of join(',"') I used join('","') to close the double quotes for each string.

        ["${= "${API Data Driven Source#TaxCode}".split(',')*.trim().join('","')}"]