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Kryotonian's avatar
Kryotonian
Occasional Visitor
3 years ago

Unable to check 'blank' property

So, I'm working on this project where initially the property value is blank. But when I run the test suite and value is received as response at the end of the execution. My goal is to make a list of ...
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KarelHusa's avatar
KarelHusa
Champion Level 3
3 years ago

Kryotonian ,

there are many options, how to check the string, I would recommend:

 

if (! myString?.trim() ) {

Which checks, whether the string (please note the logical not !):

  • is null or
  • is empty or 
  • contains only whitespace chars

 

The usage could be:

 

if (! context.testCase.getPropertyValue('myProperty')?.trim()) {
  log.info("Empty, whitespaces or null")
}

 I would avoid comparing with == in similar cases as it has different meaning in Groovy and Java and does not check the whitespaces.

 

Best regards,

Karel