Team,
My customer asked a question which I’m not sure if there is an answer.
Basically, the question is whether it is possible to specify a parent node as query and it returns a list of child nodes as name-value pair.
In the response map above, the user would like to query on buffers (Small, Big, etc.).
When I created this xpath as custom query, iTest flattens out the data as:
The best way that I can think of doing this is to take advantage of XPATH's ability to get the child nodes of a specified parent node. Then you can iterate through them to get the values.
So, in your example, you can get a count of the number of children under buffers by using
count(//buffers/*)
And you can get the name of a node under buffers and index 3, for example, using
name(//buffers/*[3])
and you can get the value of the 3rd item using
//buffers/*[3]
The trouble, of course, is that you don't have procedural logic to work within in a response map. It can only give you queries. But it turns out that you can use this same approach using the response map's custom queries mechanisms.
You can generate a custom query that will return you all of the names of the child nodes of "buffers". And you can generate a custom query that will return you all of the values of those -- keyed by name.
Unfortunately, the file you posted has been truncated, so is invalid. If you want to see an example, repost the proper file.
Yep, that is how I ended up making this work.
Basically I created three custom queries:
In the test case, I can create a "for" loop to iterate through each node and find its name and value.
See the solution in the attached zip file.
Since I output to Execution view, here is how it looks like:
