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rmnrdi
Contributor
7 years ago

reading ini without using Storages

I need to be able to read from a .ini file as it stores information needed for testing.   The problem is, it doesn't contain a [Root] section (which is mandatory) and one will not be added.   ...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    7 years ago

    > As always, I just created my own function to handle this.

    :) (Y)

     

    P.S. Possible performance improvement for large INIs: as it is pefrectly fine if [Root] section is at the end of the file, you may just make a copy of the file and append the [Root] line at its end.

     

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rmnrdi
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As always, I just created my own function to handle this.

 

The only thing that makes it incompatible is the [Root] subsection, so I created a procedure that created a new version of an ini and added [Root] to the top.

 

function CreateTCCompatibleINI(sourceINI,targetINI)
{
    //Deletes the file if it exists 
    aqFile.Delete(targetINI);
//-------------------------------------------------  
    // Opens source ini for reading
    if (aqFile.Exists(sourceINI)) 
    { 
      var iniFile = aqFile.OpenTextFile(sourceINI, aqFile.faRead, aqFile.ctANSI);      
    }
    else
    {
      Log.Error("Cannot find " + sourceINI);
    }
//-------------------------------------------------
    // Opens targetINI for writing
    if (!aqFile.Exists(targetINI)) 
    {  
      aqFile.Create(targetINI);
      var testINIFile = aqFile.OpenTextFile(targetINI, aqFile.faWrite, aqFile.ctANSI);
      //Writes root to the top of the ini file to make it compatible with Test Complete
      testINIFile.WriteLine("[Root]");
    }
    else
    { 
      var testINIFile = aqFile.OpenTextFile(targetINI, aqFile.faWrite, aqFile.ctANSI);
    }
//-------------------------------------------------

  //Reads lines from source ini and writes them to target ini
  while(!iniFile.IsEndOfFile())
  {
    var line = iniFile.ReadLine();
    testINIFile.WriteLine(line);
    Log.Message(line);
  }
//-------------------------------------------------
  //Closes files so they can be manipulated again.
  iniFile.Close();
  testINIFile.Close();  
}
AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
7 years ago

> As always, I just created my own function to handle this.

:) (Y)

 

P.S. Possible performance improvement for large INIs: as it is pefrectly fine if [Root] section is at the end of the file, you may just make a copy of the file and append the [Root] line at its end.

 

  • rmnrdi's avatar
    rmnrdi
    Contributor
    7 years ago

    Holy cow, that would make it much faster!

     

    Copy ini to folder with new name

    Open it

    Append [Root]

    Close it

     

    Yeah. That would definitely be faster than copy the contents.

     

    I  should have tried putting [Root] at the end first, it just didn't seem to make sense that it would work.

     

    UPDATE TO PREVIOUS CODE:

    function CreateTCCompatibleINI(sourceINI,targetINI)
{
    var didCopy;
    
    //Deletes the ini file if it exists 
    aqFile.Delete(targetINI);
//-------------------------------------------------  

    // Copy source ini to target folder
    if (aqFile.Exists(sourceINI)) 
    { 
      didCopy = aqFile.Copy(sourceINI,targetINI, false); 
    }
    else
    {
      Log.Error("Cannot find " + sourceINI);
    }
//-------------------------------------------------

    // Opens targetINI for writing
    if (didCopy) 
    {  
      var targetINIFile = aqFile.OpenTextFile(targetINI, aqFile.faWrite, aqFile.ctANSI);
      //Writes root to the bottom of the ini file for TC compatibility.
      targetINIFile.WriteLine("[Root]");
    }
    else
    { 
      Log.Error(sourceINI + " did not copy to " + targetINI);
    }
//-------------------------------------------

  //Closes files so they can be manipulated again.
  targetINIFile.Close();  
}

    Way faster!