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krogold
Regular Contributor
6 years ago

problems of step return inconsistency

Hello, I have a strange problem with my step result processing. I have a step ("get all devices") that can return a list of devices. the result is always ["item1", "item2, ...] etc, even if I hav...
  • krogold's avatar
    krogold
    6 years ago

    I found a workaround, though I really would like to know why this happens.

    Here is the workaround :

     

    if (items_list.tokenize('[,]').size() == 1)
{
    items_list = groovy.json.JsonOutput.toJson(items_list.tokenize('[,]'))
}

items_list = jsonSlurper.parseText(items_list)

    [item1] becomes ["item1"] and can be parsed properly

krogold's avatar
krogold
Regular Contributor
6 years ago

I found a workaround, though I really would like to know why this happens.

Here is the workaround :

 

if (items_list.tokenize('[,]').size() == 1)
{
    items_list = groovy.json.JsonOutput.toJson(items_list.tokenize('[,]'))
}

items_list = jsonSlurper.parseText(items_list)

[item1] becomes ["item1"] and can be parsed properly

  • TanyaYatskovska's avatar
    TanyaYatskovska
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    6 years ago

    Thanks for sharing the solution with us! 

    I'm sure it will help someone in the future.