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nsinghal
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5 months ago
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Passing comma separated values for a property in Data driven test case

Hi,  I am creating a grid data driven test case using Ready API. For one of the properties, I have to pass multiple comma separated values for a particular property in my REST request. I am not g...
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  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    5 months ago

    The above generates values without quotes. If that causes any trouble when API is called, then you can try below:

    "taxCodes": ["${= "${Properties#TaxCode}".split(',')*.trim().join(',"') }"],
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    nsinghal
    5 months ago

    The later one as I required my text to be enclosed in double quotes. Just made a minor change in join method. Instead of join(',"') I used join('","') to close the double quotes for each string.

    ["${= "${API Data Driven Source#TaxCode}".split(',')*.trim().join('","')}"]

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troyyerJP
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5 months ago

Another idea with a Groovy script step  

Potentially put a groovy step after the Data source to generated the parameter accordingly. if the datasource is as per your original screenshot then you could have the following groovy script

def taxcodes = context.expand( '${Data Source grid#taxcodes}' )
log.info taxcodes

// Function to convert a comma-separated string to a string array
def transformString(input) {
    def values = input.split(',')
    def transformedString = values.collect { "\"$it\"" }.join(',')
    return transformedString
}

// Convert input strings to string arrays
def taxCodes1 = transformString(taxcodes)

log.info taxCodes1

it's not fully complete as you then would have to save the updated record from the groovy script to a new Test Case Parameter and then in your request  reference the new data (again without the double quotes)

 "taxCodes" : [ ${TestCase#TaxCodes} ]

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    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    5 months ago

    Oh, looks that additional processing and adding quotes done in this script.

    But, all this can be avoided with Dynamic Property Expansions.