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lfales
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Property Transfer - Suite of test steps

Hello, I have a series of test steps which pass the response to the next. I need to take a full enriched response and remove the last '}' so I can append additional request parameters for the next te...
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  • PrathapR's avatar
    PrathapR
    5 years ago

    lfales 

    The code snippet, which I gave earlier, it shouldn't go into property transfer step,

    we have to insert a groovy step after your REST request call and paste that code, do necessary modifications as per your project(Ex: Name changing etc..) 

     

    Code:

    //import library to parse JSON
    import groovy.json.JsonSlurper

    def response = testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName("OpenCalaisRequest").getPropertyValue("Response")
    def responseJSON = new JsonSlurper().parseText(response)

    //verify the slurper isn't empty
    assert!(responseJSON.isEmpty())

    testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("finchresponseJSON",responseJSON.toString().replaceAll("\\{", "\n"))

     

    Use "finchresponseJSON" from testcase level into your next request. it looks like ${#TestCase#finchresponseJSON}, so it passes your whole JSON response without "{  and }"

     

HimanshuTayal's avatar
HimanshuTayal
Community Hero

lfales :

 

You can try below piece of code to remove last "}" from your response:

 

str = str.substring(0, str.length() - 1);

 

Let me know if more help is required

lfales's avatar
lfales
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Hmm, so I tried that code on the property transfer 'text', I can see the text being transferred but doesnt appear the final '}' is getting stripped? Here is how I set it up, not sure its correct, see attached

  • PrathapR's avatar
    PrathapR
    Frequent Contributor
    5 years ago

    lfales 

    The code snippet, which I gave earlier, it shouldn't go into property transfer step,

    we have to insert a groovy step after your REST request call and paste that code, do necessary modifications as per your project(Ex: Name changing etc..) 

     

    Code:

    //import library to parse JSON
    import groovy.json.JsonSlurper

    def response = testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName("OpenCalaisRequest").getPropertyValue("Response")
    def responseJSON = new JsonSlurper().parseText(response)

    //verify the slurper isn't empty
    assert!(responseJSON.isEmpty())

    testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("finchresponseJSON",responseJSON.toString().replaceAll("\\{", "\n"))

     

    Use "finchresponseJSON" from testcase level into your next request. it looks like ${#TestCase#finchresponseJSON}, so it passes your whole JSON response without "{  and }"

     

    • lfales's avatar
      lfales
      Occasional Contributor
      5 years ago

      I was able to add a groovy step with the code and setup to pass to next REST call but I don't want to remove all the '{' in the OpenCalaisResponse I only want to remove the last '}' so I can add a comma and the additional finchRequest parameters. The response we are parsing is fairly long ~575 lines and some longer. How might adjust the script to remove that last '}' in the previous response?

      • PrathapR's avatar
        PrathapR
        Frequent Contributor
        5 years ago

        Hey lfales 

         

        As Himanshu mentioned, it removes last character (In your case it is "}") and adding "," to it. And please add this to a groovy script not in "Property Transfer Step"

         

        Code:

        def response = testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName("OpenCalaisRequest").getPropertyValue("Response")
        testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("finchresponseJSON",(response.toString().substring(0, response.toString().length() - 1)+ ","))

         

        Use "finchresponseJSON" from testcase level into your next request. it looks like ${#TestCase#finchresponseJSON}.

  • HimanshuTayal's avatar
    HimanshuTayal
    Community Hero
    5 years ago

    lfales :

     

    Not in Properties transfer, you can use this either in Script assertion or adding a groovy script.