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Steve-3PO
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7 years ago

Transfering values from a REST API response into a list for later use

I’m trying to store a multiple values into a list that is sent back in the response each time I call a "Create Employee" REST API - POST.   Example: I want to create X amount of employees and sto...
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Steve-3PO
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You are correct, an array of values is what I am looking for. Every time I call the API and get a response, I would use the data transfer tool to take the employeeId from the response and add to the next empty row.

 

EmployeeId  
1  
2  
3  
 <- Add next employeeId

 

I did see the Data Sink tool, where you can specify a target file to store the values in, which I managed to transfer the employeeId to. However, I couldn't see anywhere where I could specify to add the following values to the next empty row. It kept overwriting the previous value.

 

Any options available I would be happy to look into. Could you explain how I would either store or re-hydrate the data?

 

Many thanks.

 

 

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JustinM89
Contributor
7 years ago

The only way I've found to persist objects throughout the duration of a test is to serialize them to JSON, store that as a test case property, then deserialize back into an object when I need to access it again. Groovy has JSON classes for doing just this, example below:

 

 

// Check if list already exists as a property, if not create it
String idListStr = context.expand('${#TestCase#idListStr}')
List idList

if(!idListStr) {
   idList = new ArrayList()
} else {
   idList = new JsonSlurper().parseText(listStr)
}

// Add an ID
idList.add(someEmployeeId)

// Serialize back to JSON
idListStr = new JsonBuilder(idList).toString()

// Set as a property again
testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("idListStr", idListStr)