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AlekseiKlimkin
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Transferring properties from JSON response to Script TestStep

Hi Everyone, I am pretty new to writing automated tests for APIs using scripts, so my question might have a completely obvious answer (and I assume it does), but I haven't been able to find it on th...
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New2API
Frequent Contributor

Hello,

           I am assuming that you would to like perform these steps to achieve your test:

  1. Execute a REST step
  2. Extract IDs from JSON response (possibly a groovy script) and transfer to a TestSuite property
  3. Transfer or append above identified property to another Rest Step URL

If above is correct then use variable or parameterize your second rest ENDPOINT (URL)

 

for Ex: http://TestHost/v2/{IDs}  (Resource parameter - Style TEMPLATE)

            http://TestHost/v2/?{IDs}  (query parameter - Style QUERY)

 

In second rest step point this parameter to your TestSuite Property like ${#TestSuite#updated}

 

Hope this helps!

 

 

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AlekseiKlimkin
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Hello!

Yep, this helps, I made my tests work by changing the TestSuite property in a Script test step, everything works fine, thank you!

 

But the main question remains: if I can define my Script test case to be a Target for a PropertyTransfer, how do I transfer some value from the response of previous test step to a variable in the script?

 

Of course I understand that I can do it using script anytime, but this is just for the sake of my curiosity.

Here is a screen shot to make things more concrete: