How to execute a javascript and store the result in a variable for use in the Katalon script?

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I’ve been using selenium ide for many years and now it will no longer be supported/updated to work with firefox 55+. I’m not a developer, more of a front end manual tester, but I have been able to use IDE to do most of my day to day testing.

Now I am trying to figure out how to use Katalon as a replacement.

I have many sites where I have to make records unique and currently I do so by using selenium to run a js to give me the current time in a format that I want, store it in a variable, then use that variable throughout the record as needed.

This would be a js I’d run:

javascript{var fd=new Date(); var date_month=fd.getMonth()+1; if (date_month < 10){ date_month = “0” + date_month; }; date_day = fd.getDate().toString(); var n=date_day.length; if (n < 2){ date_day = “0” + date_day; }; date_hour = fd.getHours().toString(); var n=date_hour.length; if (n < 2){ date_hour = “0” + date_hour; }; date_min = fd.getMinutes().toString(); var n=date_min.length; if (n < 2){ date_min = “0” + date_min; }; date_sec = fd.getSeconds().toString(); var n=date_sec.length; if (n < 2){ date_sec = “0” + date_sec; }; date_year=fd.getFullYear().toString(); date_year+“”+date_month+“”+date_day+“”+date_hour+date_min+“”+date_sec; }

I would use “store|<theaboveJS>|currentTime” as my command. How do I do something similar in KS? Is it possible?

Is there a part of the site where there are examples of what can be done with KS? I’ll look more on youtube to see what walkthroughs I can find as well.

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Thanks for that. However, I was looking more to find out how to manipulate data via js so I could parse stored variables and what not as needed. Getting a js replacement for time helps with uniqueness. Not sure what “groovy” is, so will look into that as well.

Thanks for the help!

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If all you need is just the current date & time, you can do that with groovy using the below code.

def now = new Date()
def currentTime = now.format("MM/dd/yyyy -HH:mm:ss.SSS", TimeZone.getTimeZone('UTC'))

You can format the output to any format you want, I have separated the day, month & year with / and time with : … Hope this helps!!