Required to manually add ${DataSource Input# in the request body for 170 fields?

[frankb]

Hi all,

First of all, I've read the techcornerchallenge on this, but it doesn't achieve the result that I want.

I love the new functionality of ReadyAPI that you can have a request and it creates the data source properties from that.

The problem for me is the conversion. I have more than 100 fields that need to look like: 

<Name>${DataSource Input#Name</Name> 

<Age>${DataSource Input#Age</Age>

Other than copy-pasting, is there a way in ReadyAPI (or in a different way) to get this done?

Thanks in advance!

Frank

[richie]

Hey @frankb 

Im responding cos no one else has - but to be honest - I didn't get what you meant.... can you explain concisely what the problem is please (maybe attach a couple of clarifying screenshots)?

guessing on what you meant however, theres pretty much no really quick way around setting up property names - I suppose you might use groovy, but you still need to define the property names somewhere so the work still needs to be done somewhere

ta

rich

[frankb]

Hi Rich,

I struggled a bit with making a subject, but I'll try again 🙂

What I mean is:

I have a datasource with 100 fields. For example name, age, gender, address etc.

My request (because it comes from a wsdl) is:
<name>Name</name>

<age>10</age>

etc.

To make the request work with a datasource I need to change the body of my request to be:

<name>${DataSource Input#Name</name>

<age>${DataSource Input#age</age>

etc.

So far I've been always putting this (${DataSource Input#) manually in the body of the request. Does this mean that I have to do that for 170 fields, or is there a faster/better way? 

[richie · Accepted solution]

Hey @frankb 

yeah - that is tedious and ive had to do it myself - I only have 90 attributes in my request though. 🙂

Ok - you mention .wsdl - so this is a SOAP request, right?

When I had  this - I didn't try and edit the content in ReadyAPI in your POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE request's 'Request' nor 'Raw', nor 'Outline' nor 'Form' tabs - it just takes too long.

I just copied the whole XML into an editor (XMLSpy, Notepad++ or whatever) and kept the file as a template.

I then edited this and copied (overwriting  the original that was autocreated via adding in a step off a .wsdl) the completed payload into the 'Request' tab on your SOAP test step.  It still takes a little time - but it is waaaaaay quicker than clicking on the different fields in either the 'Outline' or 'Form' tabs.

you could do the edit/overwrite within the 'Request' tab itself - but it's alittle awkward and you can't see the full payload without using the vertical scroll bars - its just way easier if you edit it in XMLSpy instead and paste in (overwriting the dynamically generated payload) into the test step's 'Request' tab.

Thats exactly what I did - when I had to do this.  Couldn't think of a quicker way of doing it!

perhaps someone else has a quicker way of doing it?

nice one

rich