conditionals and flow control on payload - apigee

I have some variables that will affect my responses on a payload but it requires an if. is there a way to add conditionals or flow control on the payload to display or not a section according to the value of a variable?
thanks for any guidance
Marco

You should be able to do this with a combination of Extract Variables and JavaScript callouts. With the Extract Variables policy, you would extract the body of the request or response. Then, with the JavaScript callout, you would do any logic based on the contents of the body. E.g.:
var myvar = context.getVariable("<variable>.body");
myvar = <whatever manipulation you want to do here>;
context.setVariable("<variable>.body", myvar);

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Dynamic Url in Jitterbit Http Target

I am wanting to call the following URL in my Jitterbit HTTP target:
https://xxx.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/_apis/wit/workitems/[vstsId]?api-version=1.0
where [vstsId] is dynamic and should be supplied from a global variable.
Is it possible to have dynamic urls in the target?
I could make the whole url dynamic if need be.
Any ideas? (I'm using javascript scripting rather than the Jitterbit scripting)
Thanks
Martin
Yes, you have it typed out correctly. At the beginning of your operation chain (or at the point where you know what $vstsld should be, and you can declare it), simply add a script to declare it, or add it into a transformation where you get the data from. At any point after that, in the current operation chain, you can access the value in that variable. Just make sure you set it with the $ symbol, which makes it global.
$vstsld='some value';
As W3bguy said. you call it in the script as $vstsld. Now you can pass in a test value data into your variable as well. just add the curly brackets inside your variable like the below
example
https://xxx.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/_apis/wit/workitems/[vstsId{1234}]?api-version=1.0

Using a substring of a return value in a subsequent request

I'm attempting to construct a series of Paw calls using the variables feature. I have one situation I'm unable to solve.
At authentication into the server I'm using, I get a JSON response, with one value that looks like this:
endpoint = "https://sub.something.com/thingone/thingtwo.php?token=sometoken&id=blahblah"
The endpoint portion "https://sub.something.com/" is then used as the base for subsequent calls, where a call might be "GET https://sub.something.com/data?id=123".
I don't want to hardcode the endpoint in Paw, as the endpoint will vary based on factors I can't predict at my end.
Is there a way to do basic string processing like this either in Paw, or by calling out to a shell script and using the return value of said script as a Paw variable?
That's doable using that RegExp Match dynamic value extension. Click on that previous link and hit Install Extension.
Type "Regexp" in the field you expect this value to be used. Pick Regexp Match from the completion results:
Then enter a regexp that matches your need, https?://[^/]+/? should be good:
I've put your example string in the screenshot above to show that it works, but you can instead put a "pointer" (Response Dynamic Value) to the response you want:
In the choices, pick Response Parsed Body if you want to parse a JSON or XML from the reponse. If the string is simply in plain text in the response body, pick Response Raw Body.
Once these steps are completed, you've got a working "Pointer" + "Parser" to the response that extract the part of the string you need. You can do the same operation with another regex for the token…
Tip: these dynamic value tokens can be selected like text and copy/pasted (Cmd+C/Cmd+V) :-)

Adobe DTM to set query string in eVar and sProp

So normally I would use the s.getQueryParam(); to parse out my URLs for query strings that I've been using.
s.eVar8=s.getQueryParam('cid,pid,eid',':');
s.prop28=s.getQueryParam('Role');
But since DTM has that all built into it, how would you really define that? I know I can set a page load rule using the campaign variable, but what if I have multiple parameters separated by ":"
www.domain.com?cid=blah1:blah2:blah3&pid=blah4:blah5:blah6&eid=blah7:blah8:blah9
Is there something that I'm missing when using this approach? Should I be capture these values into a data element then passing the data element into a page load rule using an eVar or sProp?
For variables that only look for a single URL parameter:
Create a Data Element of Type URL Parameter. For Parameter Name, put e.g. "Role" (no quotes) for prop28. Alternatively, you can do the same thing below, for multiple.
For variables that look for multiple URL parameters:
Create a Data Element of Type Custom Script. Click the [Open Editor] button and in the code box, add the following:
var d=':',
p=['cid','pid','eid'],
v=[],c,l,q;
for (c=0,l=p.length;c<l;c++) {
q=_satellite.getQueryParamCaseInsensitive(p[c]);
if (q) v.push(q);
}
return v.join(d);
The d= and p= values are based on what you have for eVar8. This isn't 100% the same as AA's s.getQueryParam plugin but it's most of it; the parts you care about based on your posted code.
Reference the Data Element(s)
In the Adobe Analytics tool config, in the Global Variables section, you can add your prop(s) and eVar(s) there, using %data_element_name_here% syntax.

Jmeter how to get the dynamic parameter value in the path

JMeter path contents some dynamically generated value.
Eg
[HTTP Request]
[path-home/user?p=er3562]
This "p" value is dynamically generated.
I want to get this parameter value in the first HTTP request path.
This parameter value should pass through each HTTP request path.
I am new to JMeter. Please help me to solve this?
You need to extract it somehow and convert into a JMeter Variable for later reuse. JMeter provides several PostProcessors for extracting data from different responses types, in your case the most suitable one will be Regular Expression Extractor.
Add Regular Expression Extractor as a child of the request which returns that path-home/user?p=er3562 value
Configure it as follows:
Apply to: depending on where the "interesting" value lives, the most "safe" setting is Main sample and sub-samples
Field to check: depending on where the "interesting" value comes from, in the majority of cases it's Body but in your case it may be i.e. URL
Reference Name: anything meaningful, it is JMeter Variable name, if JMeter finds anything it will store the result in a variable named accordingly to this field. I.e. path-home
Regular Expression: Perl5-style regular expression, in your case it would be something like: path-home/user\?p=er(\d+)
Template: if you're looking to extract a single value it will be $1$
Refer extracted value as ${path-home} where required.
References and tips:
You can use Debug Sampler and View Results Tree listener combination to view JMeter Variable names and test regular expressions against actual response
Using RegEx (Regular Expression Extractor) With JMeter
Perl 5 Regex Cheat sheet
JMeter Regular Expressions
By using correlation concept ,
regular expression extractor concept & try this key
p=er(.*?)

How do we send data via GET method?

I am creating a HTTPS connection and setting the request property as GET:
_httpsConnection = (HttpsConnection) Connector.open(URL, Connector.READ_WRITE);
_httpsConnection.setRequestMethod(HttpsConnection.GET);
But how do I send the GET parameters?
Do I set the request property like this:
_httpsConnection.setRequestProperty("method", "session.getToken");
_httpsConnection.setRequestProperty("developerKey", "value");
_httpsConnection.setRequestProperty("clientID", "value");
or do I have to write to the output stream of the connection?
or do I need to send the Parameter/Values by appending it to the url?
Calling Connection.setRequestProperty() will set the request header, which probably isn't what you want to do in this case (if you ask me I think calling it setRequestHeader would have been a better choice). Some proxies may strip off or rewrite the name of non-standard headers, so you're better off sticking to the convention of passing data in the GET URL via URL parameters.
The best way to do this on a BlackBerry is to use the URLEncodedPostData class to properly encode your URL parameters:
URLEncodedPostData data = new URLEncodedPostData("UTF-8", false);
data.append("method", "session.getToken");
data.append("developerKey", "value");
data.append("clientID", "value");
url = url + "?" + data.toString();
HTTP GET send data parameters as key/value pairs encoded within URL, just like:
GET /example.html // without parameters
GET /example.html?Id= 1 // with one basic parameter
GET /example.html?Id=1&Name=John%20Doo // with two parameters, second encoded
Note follow rules for character separators:
? - split URL in two pieces: adddress to left and paremeters to right
& - must be used to separate on parameter from another
You must know your platform specific native string encode function. Javascript uses escape, C# uses HttpUtility.UrlEncode
Yep, headers and properties are pretty much all you can send in a GET. Also, you're limited to a certain number of characters, which is browser dependent - I seem to recall about 1024 or 2000, typically.

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