Retrieving and xPath name from a TestObject loaded into memory

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Hey ya’ll, for my project I need to extract every xPath from a TestObject within my repository, alter it, and slam the new xPaths into a TestObject that lives in memory. Here’s where I’m getting stuck. Code tho:

TestObject to = findTestObject(ObjectID)
to.findXpathValue(‘xpath:link’) // This gets exactly what I need, but I need to ‘know’ the name before hand
to.getXpaths()

Ideally, I’d like to retrieve the xpaths, but I need to know the names of associated with them – unfortunately the last foo gives me this when I print:

[com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.TestObjectXpath@c2db68f, com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.TestObjectXpath@3cc41abc, …]

Is there any way to ‘turn’ this data back into names so I can retrieve the xPaths? .findProperties() gets me something similar as well. Cheers!

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Got it. Didn’t realize that the xPaths were an object. Throwing this on the end is the solution!

import com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.TestObjectXpath

List xpathList = to.getXpaths()

for( i in 0…xpathList.size()-1){

println(xpathList[i].getName())

}

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Thank you for sharing this with our community @joel.scott :100:

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Cheers, technically the solution above isn’t correct. Replace the line:

println(xpathList[i].getName())

With:

println(xpathList[i].getValue()

Idk, I’m the ‘Kata/selenium’ guy on the team and was trying to create a keyword that handles transforming a stored test object to a dynamic one to make it easier for others to write dynamic test cases :slight_smile: