ReadyAPI-POST Request- Implement dateTime script in all teststeps

So, aaronpliu  thanks for your information. Meanwhile I've tried it a different way. But it's not completely OK yet. I will place my solution here and create another ticket for the next issue. 🙂 

So the groovy script will fetch the file from a folder within ReadyAPI project called "FilesToUse". From there on it's going to depict the name of the file: get the name of the file, delete the extension, adding datetime with a separator  "-" and adding the extension again. That works allready.

// get document from path and append with DateTime
//use the commons.io from apache
//cfr     https://community.smartbear.com/t5/API-Functional-Security-Testing/ReadyAPI-append-date-in-a-filename/m-p/221103#M49504
//cfr Joost De Geyndt
import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils
import groovy.json.*


//get the basePath to your harddrive
def projectpath = context.expand( '${#Project#projectpath}' )
//get the folder with files in your composite folder
def path = projectpath +  File.separator + "FilesToUse"
log.info path

//create a new arrayList to put all the files in it
ArrayList<File> files = new ArrayList<>();
File directory = new File(path);
File[] fList = directory.listFiles();

int filesInFolder =  fList.size()
//get all the  files  from harddrive with an iteration 
int iteration = 1
for(File file : fList){

	/*
	*****************************Generate file with DateTime stamp
	*/
	//generate datetime
	def date = new Date().format('yyMMddhhmm')
	log.info  date
	
	//read filename
	def readName = file.getName()
	log.info readName
	
	//get the extension of the filename
	def getExtension = FilenameUtils.getExtension(readName)
	log.info getExtension
	
	//remove extension readName
	def filenameWithoutExtension = FilenameUtils.removeExtension(readName)
	log.info filenameWithoutExtension
	//filenameWithoutExtension.replaceAll("^[\\d]+", "")     ---Not working
	//filenameWithoutExtension.replaceAll("[0-9]", "")       ---Not working
	def addDate = filenameWithoutExtension + "-" +  "${date}" as String
	log.info addDate


	//re-add the extension
	def newFileName = addDate + "." + getExtension
	log.info newFileName
	/*
	***************************End DateTime****************************************
	*/
	file.renameTo(path + File.separator + newFileName)
	//encode in base64
	def base = new File(projectpath + File.separator + "FilesToUse"+  File.separator + newFileName).getText('UTF-8').bytes.encodeBase64().toString()
	//to be able to see which file contains wich extension (for more ease of point in the RequestBody) add the extension in the description
	testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("newFileName_"+ getExtension, base)
	iteration++

}

I have 2 files in the folder for testing purposes. The response looks like this:

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In the body of the teststep (that is a POST request) I'm getting the result like this:

"document": "${#TestCase#newFileName_html}",

Running this TestSuite once is excelent. But now I've got issues that for each run it's adding that dateTime, and resulting in

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So next ticket will be linked to this.

TBD

Kind regards,

AAB