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9 years ago

Using A Transferred Parameter in a Test Step Request (REST)

Hi, I appear to have successfully passed a parameter from Test Step1 to Test Step2 using the Property Transfer capability. However, I cannot figure out how to use the parameter in the request of Tes...

simonjdonnelly
9 years ago
Looks good, can you try something similar to this now in the property transfer step: (Soap Request is your CreatePID step).
tclotworthy
9 years ago
ok, your last reply got the Property Transfer step to appear to work properly when I run the step stand-alone (see valid output below):
However, something still must be missing, because when I run the entire test case, the step that needs the planId as input (UPdatePIDComment) is generating an output essentially indicating a failure message (i.e., that the planId never was sent as the expected parameter in its request) (see below):
So, seems to be something still not working in the transfer or something. Thanks for all your help!

simonjdonnelly

Contributor

I've had some luck with the settings displayed in the attached screenshot. If you want to give it a try.

You'll need to select EndPoint as the target property and update the Source XPath with the location of the PlanID from your CreatePID response.

tclotworthy

Contributor

9 years ago

Hi Simon, tried to do what you did(with the endpoint as property and entering that concat string) , but got the following error (see below). Any ideas? Thanks!

Screen Shot 2016-01-07 at 10.03.42 AM.png

simonjdonnelly
Contributor
9 years ago
You will need to click the expression prompt icon next to Path langauge: XPath - then click the XML Value you want from the CreatePID step as I believe v1:PlanID will not be the actual XPath expression you want to use.

When you do this, the real expression will look something more like this:

declare namespace v1='http://schema.co.uk/createPID/v1';
//v1:CreatePIDResponse[1]/v1:PlanID[1]

When you do this, the concat function will disappear and be replaced with the XPath expression, then re-add this again which might end up looking like this:

declare namespace v1='http://schema.co.uk/createPID/v1';
concat('http://localhost:8080/UpdatePIDComment?planID=', //v1:CreatePIDResponse[1]/v1:PlanID[1])

Let me know if you have any issues with the above.
- tclotworthy
  Contributor
  9 years ago
  Hi Simon, I have Xpath selection as per below:
  
  However, when you say "then click the XML Value you want from the CreatePID step", I am not sure what I click where to get the expression you are referring to. Could you possibly clarify? Is it something I do from the CreatePID step (shown below)?:
  
  Thanks for your patience
  - simonjdonnelly
    Contributor
    9 years ago
    No worries.
    
    If you click the button next to that, the button circled in blue below:
    
    Then, select the XPath Value you want from the pop up and click OK:
    
    This should leave you with the actual XPath expression you need to concat with te localhost end point.