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avidCoder
Super Contributor
7 years ago

How to make the REST request JSON Key's Value dynamic?

Let say, I have following request as JSON:-   { "code":"${DataSource#code}", "ciDate":"${Properties#StartDate}", "coDate":"${Properties#EndDate}" }   I want to make ciDate and coDate dynamic ...
  • JHunt's avatar
    JHunt
    7 years ago

    The Open Source way to do it would be to run a Groovy Script in the same Test Case as your Test Request. As an example:

     

    def step = testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName("My REST Test Step")
    def data = [
        [startDate: "01/01/2001", endDate: "02/02/2002"],
        [startDate: "03/03/2003", endDate: "04/04/2004"],
        [startDate: "05/05/2005", endDate: "06/06/2006"]
    ]

    data.each {
        testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("startDate", it.startDate)
        testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("endDate", it.endDate)
        testRunner.runTestStep( step )
        log.info step.testRequest.responseContentAsString // just logging it here but you could write to file etc
    }

    And request body as:

    {
	"code":"${DataSource#code}",
	"ciDate":"${#TestCase#startDate}",
	"coDate":"${#TestCase#endDate}"
}

    There may be easier ways to do it in Pro, but I wouldn't know about that. I mention it because you have mentioned a DataSource, which I believe is only for Pro.

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JHunt
Community Hero
7 years ago

Hi, I didn't understand exactly what you mean. But something like below for getting data might help you together with the other code above for re-running the test steps. Let me know if I've misunderstood what you need.

 

def strings = [ 
	"2017-03-02#2017-03-04#2017-07-06", 
  	"2018-03-02#2018-03-04#2018-07-06",
  	"2019-03-02#2019-03-04#2019-07-06",
]
def data = []
strings.each {
	def m = it =~ /(.*)\#(.*)\#(.*)/
	data += [ code: m[0][1], ciDate: m[0][2], coDate: m[0][3] ]
}

log.info data

 

INFO:[{code=2017-03-02, ciDate=2017-03-04, coDate=2017-07-06}, {code=2018-03-02, ciDate=2018-03-04, coDate=2018-07-06}, {code=2019-03-02, ciDate=2019-03-04, coDate=2019-07-06}]

 

  • avidCoder's avatar
    avidCoder
    Super Contributor
    7 years ago

    Thanks for your support, It is resolved now.. I wrote for loop to get it one by one dynamically and stored the result.,