How to store data to a Xml file in Files module from within a test run
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In this example you will see how to store a Xml string to a file in Files module.
For saving data to a file in Xml format, first you need to build a dataset (data in the form of rows & columns stored in memory) and populate the dataset as this forms input for the file. Steps to follow (the same are shown in the test script snippet)
- Create dataset (instruction #1)
- Initialize by adding a Row (instruction #2)
- Populate values to the Row (instructions #3 thru #8)
- Save dataset to a file in the format of a Xml (instruction #11)
| # | Command | Target | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creating the dataset and specifying the data definition name of the data file | |||
| 1 | ddCreateDataSet | dsBookDetails | BookXml||ISBN_10,searchKeywordForProduct,productTitle,author,publisher,edition |
| Initializing dataset by adding a row | |||
| 2 | ddAddRows | dsBookDetails | 1 |
| Setting values for the first row in the dataset | |||
| 3 | ddSetCellValueByName | dsBookDetails(0,ISBN_10) | 1951028023 |
| 4 | ddSetCellValueByName | dsBookDetails(0,searchKeywordForProduct) | I AM A LEADER |
| 5 | ddSetCellValueByName | dsBookDetails(0,productTitle) | I AM A LEADER: A 90-Day Leadership Journal for Kids (Ages 8 - 12) |
| 6 | ddSetCellValueByName | dsBookDetails(0,author) | Peter J. Liang |
| 7 | ddSetCellValueByName | dsBookDetails(0,publisher) | Absolute Author Publishing House (July 19, 2019) |
| 8 | ddSetCellValueByName | dsBookDetails(0,edition) | kindle |
| Print the number of rows | |||
| 9 | ddGetRowCount | dsBookDetails | count |
| 10 | echo | ${count} | |
| Save dataset to a Xml file | |||
| 11 | ddPersistDataSetToXmlFile | dsBookDetails | BookDetails.Xml |
Tips, Tricks, Gotchas & Best Practices:
In this example,
- Dataset is created using Dynamic Data Definition (not defined in Data Definitions module) and then populating using ddSetCellValueByName. This is one of the many ways of creating and populating dataset in Worksoft SaaS platform. You may want to read more about datasets and populating datasets by referring to the article here.