I know that with Descriptive programming you can do something like this:
Browser("StackOverflow").Page("StackOverflow").Link("text:=Go To Next Page ", "html tag:=A").Click
But is it possible to create some kind of string so I can assign more than one data value and pass it as single variable? I've tried many combinations using escape characters and I always get error.
For example in the case above, let's say I have more properties in the Page object, so I'd normally have to do something like this:
Browser("StackOverflow").Page("name:=StackOverflow", "html id:=PageID")...etc...
But I'd like to pass "name:=StackOverflow", "html id:=PageID" as a single variable, so when writing many objects I'd only have to write:
Browser(BrowserString).Page(PageString).WebEdit("name:=asdfgh")
And the first part would remain static, so if the parents' data needs to be modified I'd only have to modify two variables and not all the objects created in all libraries.
Is it possible?
If I was not clear enough please let me know.
Thank you in advance!
I think what you're looking for is UFT's Description object
This allows you finer grained control on the description since in descriptive programming all values are regular expressions but with Description you can turn the regular expression functionality off for a specific property.
Set desc = Description.Create()
desc("html tag").Value = "A"
desc("innertext").Value = "More information..."
desc("innertext").RegularExpression = False
Browser("Example Domain").Navigate "www.example.com"
Browser("Example Domain").Page("Example Domain").WebElement(desc).Click
If you want to represent this with plain string then it's a bit more of a problem, you can write a helper function but I'm not sure I would recommend it.
Function Desc(descString)
Set ret = Description.Create()
values = Split(descString, "::")
For Each value In values
keyVal = Split(value, ":=")
ret(keyVal(0)).Value = keyVal(1)
Next
Set Desc = ret
End Function
' Usage
Browser("StackOverflow").Page("StackOverflow").WebElement(Desc("html tag:=H2::innertext:=some text")).Click
Further reading about descriptive programming.
As an alternative to Motti's excellent answer, you could also Set a variable to match your initial descriptive object and then extend it as required:
Set myPage = Browser("StackOverflow").Page("name:=StackOverflow", "html id:=PageID")
after which you can then use
myPage.WebEdit("name:=asdfgh")
throughout the rest of the code, so long as the myPage object stays in scope...
I have an XML document passed as root to a Freemarker template. I want some values from this XML to be assigned to variables as a string and later concatenate/print them out.
<#assign MyVar = root.child1.child2.child3.mynode>
The issue here is that even when a path doesn't exist MyVar gets assigned with a sequence+hash which cannot be printed out or converted to string. This variable although returns false for ?has_content, it needs an extra step for these checks and I have this same issue with many variables and across template files and modules.
The only solution I have been able to find was
<#assign MyVar = root.child1.child2.child3.mynode>
<#assign MyVar = MyVar ?has_content?then(MyVar , "")>
I am looking for something like the Default Value Operator which also checks for nulls like ?has_content.
Does Freemarker provide any simpler one line function to check if a variable has no content and assign it with a default?
In short:
<#assign myVar = root.child1.child2.child3.mynode[0]!''>
Or just <#assign myVar = root.child1.child2.child3.mynode[0]!> if the implicit multi-typed default value doesn't cause problems (like when you just print it with ${}).
Why: XML queries (just like XPath queries) always return a sequence of matching nodes. There are maybe 0 such nodes (or 1, or multiple). An empty sequence is not a "missing value" according the template language. It's an inconvenient mismatch with the XML data-model. But while the sequence always exists, its 1st element ([0]) doesn't, so you can use all the missing value handler operators with it as usual.
I know they advice to get a cell value this way:
columnValue = vars.getObject("resultObject").get(0).get("Column Name");
as stated on jMeter doc : component reference : JDBC_Request.
But: How to access the same RS cell value by just a number of the column?
RS.get(0).get(4);
...instead of giving it a String of column Name/Label.
edit 1: Lets use Groovy/Java, instead of BeanShell. Thanks.
edit 2: The original motivation was the difference between column Name / Label, as these seem to be not fully guaranteed (? seems to be not clear here, not to me), especially due case-sensitivity ("id"/"ID", "name"/"Name"/"NAME" ..)
It should be something like:
String value = (new ArrayList<String>(vars.getObject("resultObject").get(0).values())).get(4)
More information: Debugging JDBC Sampler Results in JMeter
Be aware that according to HashMap documentation:
This class makes no guarantees as to the order of the map; in particular, it does not guarantee that the order will remain constant over time.
So the order of columns might be a big question mark.
The row itself is a HashMap, defined in source code as:
HashMap<String, Object> row
So using BeanShell syntax, you could get it as
row = vars.getObject("resultObject").get(0); // returns HashMap
In HashMap, you cannot access item (column) by ID. You could, however, apply one of the methods described here, but HashMap doesn't guarantee order, so you cannot be sure what "column 4" will contain.
If you want to be able to loop through all columns, it's better to do it in a Map style, not by index. For example using entrySet() with BeanShell:
for(Map.Entry entry : row.entrySet())
{
log.info(entry.getKey() + "=" + entry.getValue());
}
See various ways to iterate through Map here.
I have to provide the ref attribute value in an xf:select1. I need to select names of properties only if they are present in the supportedProperties instance which can be done with the following:
<xf:select1
ref="
instance('properties')/property[
name = instance('supportedProperties')/property/name
]/name">
However, the problem is that supportedProperties can contain names which are in capital letters. Assuming we cannot change the instance, is there a way we can do a case sensitive comparison?
Tried to use the lower-case() XPath function as follows but it didn't work:
<xf:select1
ref="
instance('properties')/property[
name = instance('supportedProperties')/property/name
]/lower-case(name)">
Assuming you are using XPath 2, you can write:
<xf:select1
ref="
instance('properties')/property[
name = instance('supportedProperties')/property/name/lower-case(.)
]/name">
What this does is that the lower-case(.) function applies to all elements in the sequence returned by instance('supportedProperties')/property/name.
You can also write it:
<xf:select1
ref="
instance('properties')/property[
name = (
for $name in instance('supportedProperties')/property/name
return lower-case($name)
)
]/name">
How can I do the following:
data: ls_header type BAPIMEPOHEADER.
" fill it
write ls_header.
currently I'm getting an error because write can not parse the complex type to a string. Is there a simple way to get this code running in abap?
You could use something like:
DATA: g_struct TYPE bapimepoheader.
DO.
ASSIGN COMPONENT sy-index OF STRUCTURE g_struct TO FIELD-SYMBOL(<f>).
IF sy-subrc NE 0.
EXIT.
ENDIF.
WRITE: / <f>.
ENDDO.
Perhaps not exactly the answer you expect: If you list each field.
This can be done quite easy via the Pattern-mask in SE38:
Select the Write-pattern:
Enter the structure you want:
Select the fields
Confirm with "Copy"
Confirm and you get
WRITE: bapimepoheader-po_number,
bapimepoheader-comp_code,
bapimepoheader-doc_type,
bapimepoheader-delete_ind,
bapimepoheader-status,
bapimepoheader-creat_date,
bapimepoheader-created_by,
bapimepoheader-item_intvl,
bapimepoheader-vendor,
bapimepoheader-langu,
bapimepoheader-langu_iso,
bapimepoheader-pmnttrms,
bapimepoheader-dscnt1_to,
bapimepoheader-dscnt2_to,
bapimepoheader-dscnt3_to,
bapimepoheader-dsct_pct1,
bapimepoheader-dsct_pct2,
bapimepoheader-purch_org,
bapimepoheader-pur_group,
bapimepoheader-currency,
bapimepoheader-currency_iso,
bapimepoheader-exch_rate,
bapimepoheader-ex_rate_fx,
bapimepoheader-doc_date,
bapimepoheader-vper_start,
bapimepoheader-vper_end,
bapimepoheader-warranty,
bapimepoheader-quotation,
bapimepoheader-quot_date,
bapimepoheader-ref_1,
bapimepoheader-sales_pers,
bapimepoheader-telephone,
bapimepoheader-suppl_vend,
bapimepoheader-customer,
bapimepoheader-agreement,
bapimepoheader-gr_message,
bapimepoheader-suppl_plnt,
bapimepoheader-incoterms1,
bapimepoheader-incoterms2,
bapimepoheader-collect_no,
bapimepoheader-diff_inv,
bapimepoheader-our_ref,
bapimepoheader-logsystem,
bapimepoheader-subitemint,
bapimepoheader-po_rel_ind,
bapimepoheader-rel_status,
bapimepoheader-vat_cntry,
bapimepoheader-vat_cntry_iso,
bapimepoheader-reason_cancel,
bapimepoheader-reason_code,
bapimepoheader-retention_type,
bapimepoheader-retention_percentage,
bapimepoheader-downpay_type,
bapimepoheader-downpay_amount,
bapimepoheader-downpay_percent,
bapimepoheader-downpay_duedate,
bapimepoheader-memory,
bapimepoheader-memorytype,
bapimepoheader-shiptype,
bapimepoheader-handoverloc,
bapimepoheader-shipcond,
bapimepoheader-incotermsv,
bapimepoheader-incoterms2l,
bapimepoheader-incoterms3l.
Now you can make a simple replacement of bapimepoheader with ls_header and you have an output of all fields of the structure.
Maybe this is not elegant and you must adapt your report, if the structure changes. But I like this way, because often I don't need all fields and I can select the fields in an easy way.
I know two ways, one is procedural, the other is oop.
Here is the procedural approach.
Select the structure's fields (or whatever else You might need ) from the data-dictionary table DD03L into a local internal table.
Loop over the table into a work-area
Check, whether current field is a flat single datatype, and if so,
Assign component workarea-fieldname of structure ls_header into anyfieldsymbol
Write anyfieldsymbol
Do You need the code ?
Class CL_ABAP_CONTAINER_UTILITIES was specially introduced for that by SAP.
Use FILL_CONTAINER_C method for output the structure in a WRITE manner:
DATA: ls_header type BAPIMEPOHEADER.
CALL METHOD CL_ABAP_CONTAINER_UTILITIES=>FILL_CONTAINER_C
EXPORTING
IM_VALUE = ls_header
IMPORTING
EX_CONTAINER = DATA(container)
EXCEPTIONS
ILLEGAL_PARAMETER_TYPE = 1
others = 2.
WRITE container.
You can write your structure to a string and then output the string. Same method idoc segments are created.