extracting a string starting from a known value

[soapash]

i have a string like below in my response.

https://metalTin.abcd.com/dbname/dbname_WebUI/views/home/knownpage.aspx?uniquecode=coNews&area=home&view=coNews

I have already setup property transfer and am capturing the value in a variable.

def urlFromResponse = context.expand( '${#TestSuite#url_link}')

How do I extract the substring (everything after abcd.com)

"/dbname/dbname_WebUI/views/home/knownpage.aspx?uniquecode=coNews&area=home&view=coNews"

Please note the value "https://metalTin.abcd.com" is always changing.

[Radford]

I'm assuming that your string is always a URL, if so the following should work:

def urlFromResponse = context.expand( '${#TestSuite#url_link}')
def thirdSlashIndex = urlFromResponse.indexOf('/', 9)
def partialString = urlFromResponse.substring(thirdSlashIndex)

The indexOf looks for the first occurance a slash, from character 9 of your string, i.e. after the "https://".

[rupert_anderson · Accepted solution]

The URI class (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/URI.html) can also be a more Java API centric option:

def uri =  new URI('https://metalTin.abcd.com/dbname/dbname_WebUI/views/home/knownpage.aspx?uniquecode=coNews&area=home&view=coNews')
log.info uri.path
log.info uri.query
log.info uri.path+"?"+uri.query

Logs:

Tue Nov 22 10:16:16 GMT 2016:INFO:/dbname/dbname_WebUI/views/home/knownpage.aspx
Tue Nov 22 10:16:16 GMT 2016:INFO:uniquecode=coNews&area=home&view=coNews
Tue Nov 22 10:16:16 GMT 2016:INFO:/dbname/dbname_WebUI/views/home/knownpage.aspx?uniquecode=coNews&area=home&view=coNews