using global variables to pass data between tests

Hi Ilija,



Use the OnStartTest event (http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/11118/ and http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/15535/) to populate the variable with the data. The event is triggered when TestComplete starts a test run and with a simple check you can test if the variable was already initialized or not. The variable should be either ProjectSuite or Project of object type. Variable of object type does not mean that it stores a reference to some object of the tested application, but means that the variable can store the reference to any programmatic object or entity (http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/18921/ and http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/11858/).

Thanks Alex,



I'm making some progress with the OnStartTest event, it seems to be evoked in the recursive funciton, but i still don't know whether to use   = or some other function with the object variable type for assigning it to local variables in tests.



For  example, the event looks like



//USEUNIT database



function GeneralEvents_OnStartTest(Sender)

{

  var accounts = database.getAccounts(Project.Variables.user);

  Project.Variables.accounts = accounts;

  if (Project.Variables.accounts != null)

  {



     Log.Message('accouts filled');

   

  }

}



and the simple checks confirms that the Project.Variables.accounts is not null



but whenm i try to use the accounts object type global variables in tests



....

  var accounts = Project.Variables.accounts; 

var i;

for (var num_cue_s in logon.accounts)  

  {

  panel2.panel.form.panelTablerowBackgroundlightgray.panelRightcolumn.selectAccountsdropdownlist.ClickItem(accounts[num_cue_s]);

      i++;

      if (i > 1) break;

  } 



it seems to not work, athoulgh I think i'm really close to succesfully using the object variables for passing it between tests



Thanks in advance,

   Ilija

Forgot to mention that



    var accounts = Project.Variables.accounts;

    Log.Message(accounts);



doesnt fail, but simply states  [object Object] in the test log.



I can assume it keeps the objects in some propriatery object class and
not the one form the source object (in my case is JScript dictionary
with string key and value pairs), so probably it will be neccesary to
write a script to convert the objects to\from the propriatery class
unless there are some function available istead of assigning it with =

Hi Ilija,



> [...] JScript dictionary
with string key and value pairs

I'm not an expert with JScript, but there is a note in the "Supported Scripting Languages - Specifics of Usage" help topic as for JScript arrays. I would recommend you to have a look at this topic if you haven't done this yet.

Just in case, a quote from there that might be relevant:

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The format of arrays created by the JScript engine differs from arrays created in VBScript or DelphiScript. The arrays in JScript, C++Script and C#Script are objects, while arrays created in VBScript and DelphiScript are Variant values. This difference limits the use of some routines (for instance, the AddNamedChild method) in JScript, C++Script and C#Script code. In order to use a JScript array with these routines, you need to convert the array to the format adopted in VBScript and DelphiScript. Below is a typical conversion routine: [...]

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