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marlonumali
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8 years ago

How to verify response content if it has valid DateTime or Decimal value, or if it has no value?

Please help me to correctly determine the data type of the response as it seems that regardless of the actual response value it will always evaluate to a string. Please see the following example whic...
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marlonumali
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Thank you for your response nmrao, I am hoping that I can validate response data through script assertion because I might need to do some mathematical procedure to validate a Decimal or a DateTime values, such as to test if a response DateTime value is within a certain period like January 1 to March 31, 2017.

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    marlonumali
    Occasional Contributor
    8 years ago

    Here is what I did to convert and test my response data.

     

    def response = new XmlSlurper().parseText(hl.prettyXml)
    def val1 = response.RootNode.ChildNode

    def val2= Date.parse('yyyy-MM-dd' , val1.toString())

    assert (val2 instanceof Date)