Accessing JSON data bank from Jython

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• Ramiro Martinez Posts: 47 admin

  August 2017

  Hi aa_dfw,

  You can save the values in to a test suite variable and then using the Parasoft api methods:
  context.getValue("variable_name") and context.setValue("variable_name","new_value"); to pull and set the new values.

  Example script:
  import com.parasoft.api.*;

  public void exampleScript(Object input, ExtensionToolContext context){
  
      //Application.showMessage(string) 
  
      //This is grabbing the variable x(If the varible exist) from the test suite variables and displays it in the console window. 
      Application.showMessage(context.getValue("x"));
  
      //This will set a new value for x test suite variable named x
      context.setValue("x","1000");
      Application.showMessage(context.getValue("x"));
  
      //This will print out the input in this example the input was set in the extension tool
      //If chaining from another tool such as a messaging client the output of the tool will be the Object input
      Application.showMessage(input.toString());
  }
  

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• OmarR Posts: 206 admin

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  Señor aa_dfw,

  An alternative solution to @Ramiro Martinez's lovely script would be to use the "Allow alteration" option available under JSON databank >options.
  
  This option allows you to alter specific element-values and store them in the databank.
  

  After you've altered the element, you can extract the same element (under Extract tab) and use the updated value in subsequent tests.

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• aa_dfw Posts: 4 ✭

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  Hi OmarR,
  Thanks for your reply. This would be perfect, but I'm not sure how to perform the following modification of he current string: I need to replace all occurrences of "\" in the current string with "" (basically removing all "\" from the string. Any suggestions?

  Thanks,
  Amela

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• benken_parasoft Posts: 552 ✭✭✭

  August 2017 edited August 2017

  A couple things to keep in mind. Please be aware that backslash is an escape character in JSON. When you extract a JSON string value, like with a JSON Data Bank, then any JSON escape sequences are automatically decoded. You don't need to do this manually by script or something. For example, backslash-double-quote (\") would automatically become a double-quote ("), backslash-t (\t) with the tab character, double-backslash (\\) with a single backslash (\), etc. The data bank column will have the logical string value, not way it needed to be encoded within a JSON document.

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