I'm running in to an issue in that I need to get one value in a cucumber statement, and then give that value to another statement.
Specifically I am getting a JSON object from one page (where that object gets sent to an api endpoint as a preference) and then using information out of that after I query the api, which happens in a completely separate step.
I am suspecting that I have to write the value somewhere, and then pull that value when the step that needs it comes up, but I'm kind of at a loss for doing that as well.
I can provide any further needed details, thanks for any help!
Definitely a rookie question - to which the answer is to use instance variables - #variable_name = get_method in the helper method your step calls.
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Preamble: First off - I am a complete novice, and have zero clue what I am doing, apologies in advance.
Question:
I have working SOAP messages in SoapUI (regular flavour) that I have valid responses to. I am trying to build a set of test steps that can complete a transaction lifecycle for testing.
I only just figured out that Property Transfer could be used to take a response from call A to be used in call B.
I have the source declared correctly, and the Target correctly, With the default namespace info I have successfully transferred the complete response of call A into the target property. Now I just need to cut that down to one element only. I have tried all manner of things, but I seem to be getting [null] every time (except where I don't include the bit to choose one element at all, as noted above).
I just don't know what the format of the line that specifies the desired field should be. I know I have to have the name of the desired field in it, near the end, but beyond that I am randomly trying all sorts.
Okay, I have it solved, after many stupid trials and errors. For posterity and so I can reference it myself in future, this is what I got going:
Inside the soap message response body, there is a tag ns1 (which I am guessing is namespace 1).
Inside that is a section called salesInvoiceReturn.
Inside that is another section called salesInvoiceDetails.
Inside that is a field that I need is called salesInvoiceSalesTax.
So my line in the XPath Source section that works reads:
//ns1:salesInvoiceReturn/salesInvoiceDetails/salesInvoiceSalesTax
Pressing the Run button shows me it captures the correct value into the Custom Property I selected. I don't seem to need any code at all in the Target section.
So there is this HUGE JSON that I am loading from a file and than I run it through lr_eval_string and save it to a parameter. This parameter is later used as a body in one of my REST calls.
I use lr_eval_string to dynamically replace different values in that JSON.
Now here is the problem, one of the values that I replace is unique and generated by a c function. This value appears numerous times in that JSON and needs to be unique each time, yet I am only able to call that c function once at the beginning of the action. The result is that all values end up being equal...
So my question is: how can I call my function each time this unique value appears? I am talking about functionality similar to "Update value on: Each occurrence" that is available on the Parameters section.
I see an option called "User Defined Function" in parameters which I guess could do what I am looking for yet I couldn't find any good tutorial on how to actually use this functionality. Is user defined action the way to go, is there any other solution?
Any help would be highly appreciated! :)
I was hoping someone had some experience using the entsp flag in GSA and was able to point out what I am doing wrong. I've read the documentation but can't figure it out.
The query string I am passing through is:
?as_sitesearch=examplesite.com&callback=angular.callbacks._1&collection=hybrid_site_colection&entsp=a__di_site_biasing&frontend=jsonp&num=10&query=test&start=0
I've set up the biasing in the GSA, and when I apply it to the frontend itself, it behaves. But I was hoping to pass it in dynamically, as I believed you could (we are likely to want to dynamically pass through one of a few biasing, depending on where the user is coming from), it makes no difference.
Am I missing a tag, or can someone see anything else wrong?
Sorry, peoples, I've seen now that the problem is that we are going through a JSON bridge that isn't passing through my variables.
When I go directly to the GSA with a frontend, it works.
Let's say I want to perform custom logic only, say, when a user's verified field changes from false to true (in order to make sure they are allowed to be performing this operation). Is there a way in Cloud Code to see what the 'current', i.e. about-to-be-overwritten value of a field is?
I would look at changedAttributes(), previousAttributes() and previous("columnName") to see if these have been exposed in the beforeSave handler yet.
Update note: none of those methods help.
The only other option I've seen in some older questions is to check object.existed() and in that case do a get() request to load the original values before the save. Obviously this causes 2 API requests per save.
It would be great to hear back if the changed/previous methods work.
Update
I have since done some more thorough testing, and the only option is to get() the previous version of the record. Nothing else works. This of course requires that you do it in the before-save handler.
Scenario:
I have a Board model in my Rails server side, and an Android device is trying to post some content to a specific board via a POST. Finally, the server needs to send back a response to the Android device.
How do I parse the POST manually (or do I need to)? I am not sure how to handle this kind of external request. I looked into Metal, Middleware, HttpParty; but none of them seems to fit what I am trying to do. The reason I want to parse it manually is because some of the information I want will not be part of the parameters.
Does anyone know a way to approach this problem?
I am also thinking about using SSL later on, how might this affect the problem?
Thank you in advance!! :)
I was trying to make a cross-domain request from ie9 to my rails app, and I needed to parse the body of a POST manually because ie9's XDR object restricts the contentType that we can send to text/plain, rather than application/x-www-urlencoded (see this post). Originally I had just been using the params hash provided by the controller, but once I restricted the contentType and dataType in my ajax request, that hash no longer contained the right information.
Following the URL in the comment above (link), I learned the how to recover that information. The author mentions that in a rails controller we always have access to a request variable that gives us an instance of the ActionDispatch::Request object. I tried to use request.query_string to get at the request body, but that just returned an empty string. A bit of snooping in the API, though, uncovered the raw_post method. That method returned exactly what I needed!
To "parse it manually" you could iterate over the string returned by request.raw_post and do whatever you want, but I don't recommend it. I used Rack::Utils.parse_nested_query, as suggested in Arthur Gunn's answer to this question, to parse the raw_post into a hash. Once it is in hash form, you can shove whatever else you need in there, and then merge it with the params hash. Doing this meant I didn't have to change much else in my controller!
params.merge!(Rack::Utils.parse_nested_query(request.raw_post))
Hope that helps someone!
Not sure exactly what you mean by "manually", posts are normally handled by the "create" or "update" methods in the controller. Check out the controller for your Board model, and you can add code to the appropriate method. You can access the params with the params hash.
You should be more specific about what you are trying to do. :)