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Theres a number of ways to do this.
However, to answer your question people will need to know the field length of each attribute you want to populate with any old string. Theres no point generating a random string with 10 digits in it, if the field only supports 8.
Once we have field lengths we can then look at how to do it, although probably easiest will be inline scripting....or maybe the datagen option in the DataSource teststep
Cheers,
Rich
Thanks.
The fields posted successfully with "string" so could you please provide an example of replacing "string" for all with random data containing 6 letters. I know how to replace a Name/Address etc but that would be DataGen... I don't want to have to reference the properties from DataGen.
For my example I would just need this..
"newBusinessRatingReferenceId": "arfyui",
"offerOriginChannelEntCd": "wordte",
"offerOriginSubChannelEntCd": "tyuugi",
"originalOfferOriginChannelEntCd": "jjiiop",
"originalOfferOriginSubChannelEntCd": "lopuil",
"ratingReferenceId": "string",
- richie3 years agoCommunity Hero
Hey @Rememo
Ok - I've worked out a way to do it - but it's not very elegant - I mean like - it's really awful coding - it does the job - but I hope ChrisAdams or nmrao dont see it! 🙂
I was hoping I could bodge an inline scripting property expansion, but alas - my groovy is rubbish hence my solution.
Ok - you're test case object hierarchy will need to be as follows (you have name value pairs in your example so I'm taking a guess on this is JSON/REST:
TestSuite
---TestCase
-----GroovyScript
-----Properties
-----REST (sources the 6 digit values)
Your Properties step will need a 6 properties created called 'randomString1', 'randomString2','randomString3', 'randomString4', 'randomString5', & 'randomString6',
Your Groovy step will need the following code:
//THIS IS REALLY HORRIBLE CODE - BUT WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? MY GROOVY'S RUBBISH! import org.apache.commons.lang.RandomStringUtils //generate a 6 digit random string and assign to the randomString1 variable String randomString1 = RandomStringUtils.random(6, true, true) //define the properties step and write the randomString1 value to the Properties step def propertiesStep1 = context.testCase.testSteps["Properties"] propertiesStep1.setPropertyValue("randomString1", randomString1) //generate a 6 digit random string and assign to the randomString2 variable String randomString2 = RandomStringUtils.random(6, true, true) //define the properties step and write the randomString2 value to the Properties step def propertiesStep2 = context.testCase.testSteps["Properties"] propertiesStep2.setPropertyValue("randomString2", randomString2) //generate a 6 digit random string and assign to the randomString3 variable String randomString3 = RandomStringUtils.random(6, true, true) //define the properties step and write the randomString3 value to the Properties step def propertiesStep3 = context.testCase.testSteps["Properties"] propertiesStep3.setPropertyValue("randomString3", randomString3) //generate a 6 digit random string and assign to the randomString4 variable String randomString4 = RandomStringUtils.random(6, true, true) //define the properties step and write the randomString4 value to the Properties step def propertiesStep4 = context.testCase.testSteps["Properties"] propertiesStep4.setPropertyValue("randomString4", randomString4) //generate a 6 digit random string and assign to the randomString5 variable String randomString5 = RandomStringUtils.random(6, true, true) //define the properties step and write the randomString5 value to the Properties step def propertiesStep5 = context.testCase.testSteps["Properties"] propertiesStep5.setPropertyValue("randomString5", randomString5) //generate a 6 digit random string and assign to the randomString6 variable String randomString6 = RandomStringUtils.random(6, true, true) //define the properties step and write the randomString6 value to the Properties step def propertiesStep6 = context.testCase.testSteps["Properties"] propertiesStep6.setPropertyValue("randomString6", randomString6) //normally I give credit in any code I produce to whoever I ripped it off from - however - this is all my own, so I have to take the blame myself this time!
So each one of I think 6 name value pairs in your JSON PAYLOAD should source the values from the Properties step - so in your payload you should look something like this
"Attribute1": "${Properties#randomString1}",
"Attribute2": "${Properties#randomString2}",
"Attribute3": "${Properties#randomString3}",
"Attribute4": "${Properties#randomString4}",
"Attribute5": "${Properties#randomString5}",
"Attribute6": "${Properties#randomString6}",
So when you now execute the test - your 6 attributes in your payload will be populated by those 6 random string values sourced from the Properties step.
So - as you can see - there's nothing elegant in the code, not iterating the same code or anything. The groovy bods will probably be able to do the above in 4 lines of code - but that's them!
if you dont like the above solution (and I can understand if you dont! :)) - perhaps ChrisAdams will sort you out!
Cheers,
Rich
- User9993 years agoContributor
Ah... I think I may have confused you with example... I didn't want to do it through the Properties step as that would just be creating replacements for a specific field then referencing them in the Json Payload. eg:
def firstName= generator( (('A'..'Z')+('a'..'z')).join(), 7 )
def lastName= generator( (('A'..'Z')+('a'..'z')).join(), 9)
def addressLine = generator( (('A'..'Z')+('a'..'z')+('0'..'9')).join(), 20)If I have a 500 fields with "string" I don't want to have to define them all in a Groovy step!
I was looking for an easy way to basically do a REPLACE ALL "string" with random data in the JSON payload
- richie3 years agoCommunity HeroOh...so literally the fields have "string" in them and you want to replace them all?
You've already identified the groovy method to do this....replaceall() why dont you just use that and drop the random requirement....adding random values arent really gonna add all that much to the level of rigour in your tests anyway...
Cheers
Rich
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