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zenpicker
Occasional Contributor
14 years ago

Globally visible data generators

Is there a way to build a data generator and then reference it in multiple test cases? I see the Shared property, but my understanding is that this shares it between threads in the same test case. W...
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M_McDonald
Super Contributor
14 years ago
I am not sure what a data generator for states would do - return a state randomly? If you wanted that, you could put something like this in the Project Load script:

project.metaClass.static.getState = {
   def states = ['AL','AZ','CA']
   def rand = new java.util.Random()
   return states[rand.nextInt(3)]
}


and wherever you wanted your random state in a Groovy script you could use

def state = context.testCase.testSuite.project.getState()


of as a property expansion 

${=context.testCase.testSuite.project.getState()}