Outputs variable of ATF Serverside script

[Nitesh Balusu]

Hello Developers,

I need to output the result of a serverside script that i have written to use in the next step of ATF. the result of the script is a string which looks something like this "/api/now/table/incident/e1ce0900dbc123c075dd9837db961968". Please take a look at script and let me know how the variable "jsonresult_response" needs to be passed to the next step.

Thanks.

(function(outputs, steps, stepResult, assertEqual) {

	var jsonresult_response;
	var record_id;

	var res= new GlideRecord("sys_atf_test_result_item");
	res.addQuery('step','2f927cc8db41e3c4af4df35aaf96191c');
	res.orderByDesc("sys_updated_on");
	res.setLimit(1);
	res.query();

	while(res.next()) {

		var jsonresult=res.output;
		
		
		var startindex = jsonresult.indexOf("/api/now/table/incident/");
		var endindex = jsonresult.indexOf("Cache-control");
		jsonresult_response=jsonresult.substring(startindex,endindex);
		
		outputs.record_id=jsonresult_response;
		gs.info("output is "+outputs.record_id);
	}
		

		
})(outputs, steps, stepResult, assertEqual);

[Ankush Agrawal · Accepted solution]

Hi Sree

The max length of record_id is 32 characters as it represents sys_id. You should ideally create a new output variable under the step configuration 'Run Server Side Script'.

If there is a limitation to do this and you are bound to use OOB output variables, you can use the variable 'table' instead of 'record_id'. The max length of 'table' is 80 characters.

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Ankush

[Nitesh Balusu]

Got it! Thanks!

[Rajanmehta]

hi Ankush,

I have similar requirement. Want to pass on out put of first step to next step.

Can you please guide me how do I get this to pass on to next step? What do I need to do in next step?

Please advise. 

Thanks,

Step 1:

(function(outputs, steps, stepResult, assertEqual) {
// add test script here

:

:

:

var response = request.execute();
outputs = response.getBody();
})(outputs, steps, stepResult, assertEqual);

Step 2:

??? var output_Step1 = steps('xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx').outputs ; // Passing sys_id of Step 1

I am not getting anything if I do this. Please advise. 

Thanks,

Rajan Mehta

[Ankush Agrawal]

Hi Rajan

There are 2 catches:

1. outputs is the returned object and the output variables are stored inside it, e.g.: outputs.record_id etc. Hence Step 1 should have the line as
   outputs.record_id = response.getBody();
   
   Similarly Step 2 should refer this as:
   var output_Step1 = steps('xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx').outputs.record_id;
   
   
2. I believe getBody might return a large JSON object. If yes, you can go to the step configuration 'Run Server Side Script' and create a new output variable there of type Name-Value Pair (say, u_json_output). This can store JSON string and set via outputs.u_json_output = response.getBody() and can be referred in subsequent steps as
   
   var output_Step1 = steps('xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx').outputs.u_json_output;

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Best regards
Ankush

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