Passing Multiple records into a control via the Assure API

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Athar Syed

• December 09, 2020 20:44
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How can we pass multiple records into a Control that got triggered through Assure API, into its property TextDataItem?

The examples in API guide has syntax for a single record.

example2.TextDataItem=true,111,James Bond,1000.00,20051202,100.00,1

If I have to pass another record with values - true,112,Mike Tyson,1000.00,20051202,100.00,2

How can i achieve that?

 

 

 

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  Gerard Cafaro

  • December 09, 2020 22:23
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  The line separator is controlled by the Layout and is a new-line (\n) character by default. This can be updated via the Record Ending and Record Value settings within the Layout if a different character is needed:

  

  Here's a snippet of a curl command's payload to trigger a control with three records each containing three columns. I left the default new-line character line separator:

  "textDataItem":"record,number,one\nsecond,record,here\nand,third,record"

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  Athar Syed

  • December 10, 2020 06:21

  Thanks Gerard for the response, i was able to pass multiple records with \n new-line character separator, but it only picked up the last record.It generated a control report with the last record and control data has also the last record.

  example2.TextDataItem=true,111,James Bond,1000.00,20051202,100.00,1\ntrue,112,James Bond1,1000.00,20051202,100.00,2\ntrue,222,Mike Tyson,2000.00,20051202,000.00,2

  

  looking to capture all the records that are passed in "textDataItem"

   

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  Gerard Cafaro

  • December 10, 2020 14:42

  What's the logic within the control for capturing / storing data? I get all three records with an \n separator. I also switched the property file-based method, in case the embedded new-line characters within the TextDataItem property and the "real" new-line characters throughout the property file were conflicting. Although, I captured three records in this setup too:

  example2.ControlEntity=apitestce
  example2.ControlPoint=apitestcp
  example2.TextDataItem=record,number,one\nsecond,record,here\nand,third,record
  example2.WaitForResponse=true

  Script returned 3 instances:

  INFO: Instance Count: 3

  Control data showed all three records:

  

   

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  Athar Syed

  • December 10, 2020 22:03
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  It was the condition in Control point which cause to pick only 1 record and after fixing, it did pickup all the records.

  Thanks Gerard!

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