ReadyAPI-POST Request- Implement dateTime script in all teststeps
Hi,
As I finished to increment the files with a date stamp ( see solution here ) I was looking into it how to execute this script for all the teststeps in the testcase.
But then I understood that I actually should write a code for each teststep separatly. As this is time consuming and cumbersume in maintenance, I would like some suggestions as how to do so. Also thinking about that I will need to batchrun those test in do time.
So my testcase looks like this:
In this code I'm pointing to a file on my harddrive but I was thinking about to point to the teststeps Request body where I'm getting the file (that is 64based coded).
the Request json body looks like this:
Does anybody has an idea how to do this? Or another way to do this?
I can't put this in an event as this is just for this testcase and 1 in another TestSuite. Not sure if I need to re-use this in future testcases....
The purpose is to use my script in each testStep of this TestCase. But each testStep is fetching a different file on my harddrive.
etc.... Now I would like the code that I've created to increment a filename, to use it for each testStep. But as they're pointing to different files, I don't know how to do so.
Hi AAB obviously, you need to achieve such update in a loop and construct a payload with different file name, and then inject the payload to each step.
Using JsonBuilder to construct your json payload and testRunner.testCase.testSteps["<stepName>"].testRequest.setRequestContent("<payload>") to update payload of each step.
So, aaronpliu thanks for your information. Meanwhile I've tried it a different way. But it's not completely OK yet. I will place my solution here and create another ticket for the next issue. 🙂
So the groovy script will fetch the file from a folder within ReadyAPI project called "FilesToUse". From there on it's going to depict the name of the file: get the name of the file, delete the extension, adding datetime with a separator "-" and adding the extension again. That works allready.
// get document from path and append with DateTime
//use the commons.io from apache
//cfr https://community.smartbear.com/t5/API-Functional-Security-Testing/ReadyAPI-append-date-in-a-filename/m-p/221103#M49504
//cfr Joost De Geyndt
import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils
import groovy.json.*
//get the basePath to your harddrive
def projectpath = context.expand( '${#Project#projectpath}' )
//get the folder with files in your composite folder
def path = projectpath + File.separator + "FilesToUse"
log.info path
//create a new arrayList to put all the files in it
ArrayList<File> files = new ArrayList<>();
File directory = new File(path);
File[] fList = directory.listFiles();
int filesInFolder = fList.size()
//get all the files from harddrive with an iteration
int iteration = 1
for(File file : fList){
/*
*****************************Generate file with DateTime stamp
*/
//generate datetime
def date = new Date().format('yyMMddhhmm')
log.info date
//read filename
def readName = file.getName()
log.info readName
//get the extension of the filename
def getExtension = FilenameUtils.getExtension(readName)
log.info getExtension
//remove extension readName
def filenameWithoutExtension = FilenameUtils.removeExtension(readName)
log.info filenameWithoutExtension
//filenameWithoutExtension.replaceAll("^[\\d]+", "") ---Not working
//filenameWithoutExtension.replaceAll("[0-9]", "") ---Not working
def addDate = filenameWithoutExtension + "-" + "${date}" as String
log.info addDate
//re-add the extension
def newFileName = addDate + "." + getExtension
log.info newFileName
/*
***************************End DateTime****************************************
*/
file.renameTo(path + File.separator + newFileName)
//encode in base64
def base = new File(projectpath + File.separator + "FilesToUse"+ File.separator + newFileName).getText('UTF-8').bytes.encodeBase64().toString()
//to be able to see which file contains wich extension (for more ease of point in the RequestBody) add the extension in the description
testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("newFileName_"+ getExtension, base)
iteration++
}
I have 2 files in the folder for testing purposes. The response looks like this:
In the body of the teststep (that is a POST request) I'm getting the result like this:
"document": "${#TestCase#newFileName_html}",
Running this TestSuite once is excelent. But now I've got issues that for each run it's adding that dateTime, and resulting in
