Response Mapping Eval Statements

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bbaker asked Mar 28, '11 bbaker posted Mar 28, '11

Response Mapping Eval Statements

I'm running into a problem with how iTest handles responses from Eval statements.

Throughout out testcases, we are displaying progress messages to give us a indication on what a test is doing at a specifc time. As a testcase loops through the devices in a topology, we will log a message as to whether a unit is about to be tested.

The problem we are having is that iTest does not reliably collect the information for the query. If deviceName is set to "foo1" everything works fine. However, if deviceName is set to "foo", then iTest doesn't generate the query group1. If group1 doesn't exist, the testcase will fail.

Is there a better way to process an Eval statemet that will consistently generate a query regardless of the returned value?

iTest response map

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Answer 1 · 2012-01-19T05:23:30Z

mallikarjunarao answered Jan 19, '12 mallikarjunarao posted Jan 19, '12

baker,

Could you use regex insted of query I hope this example will solve your problem.

Thanks

Malli

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Answer 2 · 2011-03-28T18:50:16Z

sandeepreddynv answered Mar 28, '11 sandeepreddynv posted Mar 28, '11

Hi,

I have understand your issue. iTest will look for the variables i.e like integers, etc in the response then accoding to the variables it will create queries by using quto generated response map.

In your case " foo1" is having the variable(integer) 1, so it is creating response map. "foo" is just a srting so, it is not creating any response map.

It is better to create a response map for the step and use the queries from the response map.

Hope this helps !!!

Thanks,

Venkat

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bbaker commented · Mar 28, 2011 at 08:57 PM

How do you set the applicability for a Response Map to an Eval statement?

I've made a few attempts, but the Response Map only works if I manually assign it to the statement. I've got too many instances of this issue to go back and manually tie each statement to the Response Map.

Is there a way I can configure the auto-mapping so it will match on a string as well as an int? That would be a lot simpler.

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YujieL bbaker commented · Mar 28, 2011 at 08:59 PM

for your first question: No, response map applicability is not supported for exec actions.

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bbaker YujieL commented · Mar 29, 2011 at 12:54 PM

Does this mean the suggested way to fix this problem isn't supported?

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YujieL bbaker commented · Mar 30, 2011 at 05:16 PM

I don't think you can configure how auto-mapping works. Do you have an example of your response and how it is currently mapped?

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bbaker YujieL commented · Mar 30, 2011 at 05:32 PM

Most of the responses are along the lines of:

PPPoE_Unit1

PPPoE_Unit2

PPPoE_Unit3

The problem occurs when a check in done on a non-test unit:

PPPoE Server

SpirentTestCenter

We also have some testbeds where the engineer got creative with the device names:

Frankenstein

Godzilla

Mummy

etc...

The screen shot in first post is one of the more basic examples.

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YujieL bbaker commented · Apr 01, 2011 at 01:29 AM

I don't see a way around having to specify a response map for each of these steps.

If the steps are common, you can maybe put them in a procedure.

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