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nkasemsan
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Property transfer return empty array in JSON response

Hello,    I have a test step that returns a JSON response (sample response attached).  In a subsequent step, I do a property transfer in which a take the first element in the response and, in the T...
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    PaulMS
    8 years ago

    Would you believe that a property transfer only works with single quotes in the source JSONPath expression $..Telecoms[?(@.SystemCode=='phone')].ValueString

     

    JSONPath match assertions also work with single not double quotes. That seems like a defect.

     

    To get the first element where 'SystemCode = 'email' try

    $..Telecoms[?(@.SystemCode=='email')][0].ValueString

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PaulMS
Super Contributor
8 years ago

Would you believe that a property transfer only works with single quotes in the source JSONPath expression $..Telecoms[?(@.SystemCode=='phone')].ValueString

 

JSONPath match assertions also work with single not double quotes. That seems like a defect.

 

To get the first element where 'SystemCode = 'email' try

$..Telecoms[?(@.SystemCode=='email')][0].ValueString

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    nkasemsan
    Occasional Contributor
    8 years ago

    That is the perfect solution.  After I changed it to single quotes and added[0] at the end, I got the first phone element.  Thank you very much for the suggestion!