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vondie
Contributor
9 years ago

Wildcard Not Recognized in URL within an Email

Currently using TC 11.20 and writing scripts using Python. I am working on a script that checks the body content of my last email in my inbox (Outlook).  My end goal is to click a URL within an email...
  • vondie's avatar
    vondie
    9 years ago

    Thank you both for your input! I decided to follow a little of both pieces of advice and developed the solution below. 

     

    def check_email():
  msOutlook = Sys.OleObject["Outlook.Application"]
  
  mapi = msOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
  
  inbox = mapi.Folders("test@test.com").Folders("Inbox")
  
  messages = inbox.Items
  message = messages.getLast()
  body_content = str(message.body)

  s = 'http://qaapps.test.com:12345/test/admin/password-reset/'
  
  time.sleep(10)

  if s in body_content:
   url = body_content[237:347] 
 
   Browsers.Item[btFirefox].Run(url)
   
   Log.Message("Test passed!") 
      
  else:
     Log.Message("Email not received. Please open bug in JIRA.")

     

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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3

Hi,

 

To add to Colin's reply: if the varying part of the url is a set of hexadecimal figures, I would recommend to use regular expressions to extract the url from the message body and then just navigate the browser to the extracted url (even without performing the actual click on the url).

vondie's avatar
vondie
Contributor
9 years ago

Thank you both for your input! I decided to follow a little of both pieces of advice and developed the solution below. 

 

def check_email():
  msOutlook = Sys.OleObject["Outlook.Application"]
  
  mapi = msOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
  
  inbox = mapi.Folders("test@test.com").Folders("Inbox")
  
  messages = inbox.Items
  message = messages.getLast()
  body_content = str(message.body)

  s = 'http://qaapps.test.com:12345/test/admin/password-reset/'
  
  time.sleep(10)

  if s in body_content:
   url = body_content[237:347] 
 
   Browsers.Item[btFirefox].Run(url)
   
   Log.Message("Test passed!") 
      
  else:
     Log.Message("Email not received. Please open bug in JIRA.")

 

  • Colin_McCrae's avatar
    Colin_McCrae
    Community Hero
    9 years ago

    I see how you've done it.

     

    And as long as the URL part always remains in EXACTLY the same position, and stays EXACTLY the same length, it will work. (aka - you've used magic numbers .... which is not recommended)

     

    Personally, I would recommend calculating the start and end points of the capture area at runtime, so if it moves, it won't break.

     

    But you're moving in the right direction .... :smileyhappy:

    • vondie's avatar
      vondie
      Contributor
      9 years ago

      Appreciate the feedback. Yes, I am aware it could fail if the email changes, but that's exactly what we want to happen in regression testing. Thank you!

      • AlexKaras's avatar
        AlexKaras
        Champion Level 3
        9 years ago

        And one more note :) :

         

        > Browsers.Item[btFirefox].Run(url)
        > Log.Message("Test passed!")

        The first line of code tries to navigate to the provided url with no verification of success been performed. But instead the code just reports about success without any evidence of it. This might appear to be misleading and incorrect (e.g. url is provided but pointing to the wrong location).