Web Services- Data-driven testing

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I tried looking and could find a straight forward answer anywhere.

So here are the steps:

  1. Set up a post request and link one of the property in request to a globalVariable created under variable section of the post request
  2. Create a test case with “Send request and verify” this post request
  3. In the body of WS.sendRequestAndVerify(findTestObject…), it will automatically show the property tied to globalVariable
  4. Now I create another local variable in test case, my question is how do I link this local variable with that global Variable? or do I remove that globalVariable in the reference made under WS.sendRequestAndVerify(findTestObject…) and link local variable there? If so how, what format

E.g:
some post request create api with body:
{
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“{application}”:"${app}"
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}

declared under post request variable, app : globalVariable.app

Now in test case it will show:
WS.sendRequestAndVerify(findTestObject(some create api, , [(‘app’) : GlobalVariable.app…])

since I am trying to run test case under test suite with data set, I have to define local variable in test case which maps to ‘app’. Lets say i declare it with the same name under variable, so do i enter ${app} instead of GlobalVariable.app in the body above? This doesn’t seem to work.

How are variables linked between request and test case?
Is there a order of precedence which code checks to pick a variable?

Thanks

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Hi there,

You can do it like this, assuming that tcVariable is a test case variable

tcVariable = 
WS.sendRequestAndVerify(findTestObject(some create api, , [(‘app’) : tcVariable])

Which will pass the value of tcVariable into the request. Is this what you want ? I am kinda confused since you mentioned that

Which I take it that you’re using Data Driven testing from external data. So what do you use a global variable for in this case ?

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Thanks Thanh. For local testcase variable do I define it like this ?.. [(‘app’) : ${tcVariable}])…
Do i need to remove globalVariable link in the request, for some reason it is always picking the globalVariable value instead of picking from the external data linked in test suite.

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Nevermind, it did pick up when local variable was linked properly. Thanks

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