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Sabiha
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

Reading/setting values in appsettings.json file

Hi everyone,    I need to read the localization settings from my appsettings.json  file  on my server and possible update them too as part of my automated testing. Basically, I need to be able chec...
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    Sabiha
    4 years ago

    Thanks for your reply AlexKaras 

     

    Just wanted to update to say that I had managed to get something working, similar to your code above, but using JSON.parse

     

    var fileContents = aqFile.ReadWholeTextFile(filePath, aqFile.ctANSI)

    var  appSettings = JSON.parse(fileContents)
    var defaultLanguage = appSettings.MyID.Localization.FallbackLanguage
    return defaultLanguage

     

    I haven't tried updating the file yet, haven't need to so far...

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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
4 years ago

Hi,

 

> give me an example of how I would load the file in TestComplete and parse the contents

Untested sample which, hopefully, will inspire you:

var s = aqFile.ReadWholeTextFile("appsettings.json", aqFile.ctANSI); // s contains whole file as a string

var oJSON;
eval('oJSON = {' + s + '};'); // convert string to JSON object (note: string s is NOT enclosed in curly braces and thus they are added

var strFallbackLanguage = oJSON.Localization.FallbackLanguage;
Log.Message(aqString.Format('FallbackLanguage is "%s"', strFallbackLanguage), strFallbackLanguage);

// Modify some value
oJSON.Localization.FallbackLanguage = "fr";
// store changes to the file
aqFile.WriteToTextFile("appsettings.json", JSON.stringify(oJSON), aqFile.ctANSI, true);

 

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    Sabiha
    Occasional Contributor
    4 years ago

    Thanks for your reply AlexKaras 

     

    Just wanted to update to say that I had managed to get something working, similar to your code above, but using JSON.parse

     

    var fileContents = aqFile.ReadWholeTextFile(filePath, aqFile.ctANSI)

    var  appSettings = JSON.parse(fileContents)
    var defaultLanguage = appSettings.MyID.Localization.FallbackLanguage
    return defaultLanguage

     

    I haven't tried updating the file yet, haven't need to so far...