override using @OVERRIDES@ not working within .withHeaders (Details below)

[mailtwogopal]

Hi,

I have a situation that any of my test needs a token as one of the request headers, and we rely on a Soap call (REST version not available yet) to get that token. In PactumJS, I managed to call that soap WS with .withBody(XMLrequest) and from the xml response received, I converted it to json response using xml2js node library.

I was able to fetch the token from json response and using .returns stored that to a variable. When I try to override using @OVERRIDES@ inside .withHeaders like below, token value is set to undefined.

First call inside it block where am fetching token value from webservice1:

const fetchToken = await spec().withMethod('POST').withPath('url')
.withJson(reqbody).withHeaders({ "test": "test", "Content-Type": "application/json" }).expectStatus(200)
.returns((ctx) => {
var xmlResp = ctx.res.body;
convert.parseString(xmlResp, (err, jsonResp) => {
if (err) console.log(err)
tokenVal = jsonResp['test']['value'];
return tokenVal;
})
});

Second call inside it block where am trying to use the const fetchToken inside my 2nd test like below but tokenvalue in header is set to undefined.

await spec().withMethod('POST')
.withPath('url').withHeaders({
'@DaTa:TEMPLATE@': 'headers',
'@OVERRIDES@': {
'tokenvalue': ${fetchToken} (also tried as simply as 'tokenvalue': fetchToken)
}
})
.withJson({ '@DaTa:TEMPLATE@': 'reqpayload' }).inspect()
.expectStatus(200)

Can you check on this?

[mailtwogopal]

Please don't worry about small letters between the CAPS for DATA template etc. as am using it right in my tests

[ASaiAnudeep]

Instead of using dat templates, can you try with Data Maps

const { stash, spec } = require('pactum');

stash.addDataMap({
  'APP_TOKEN': 'some dynamic value'
});

await spec().post('<url>').withHeaders('tokenvalue', '$M{APP_TOKEN}')

[mailtwogopal]

Sure, I will give a try.. Thanks

[mailtwogopal]

Hi ASaiAnudeep,

I think the issue with below code where .returns does not return any value. This is how I modified to use DataMap as you suggested above.

stash.addDataMap({
'appToken':
{
'appTokenValue': await spec().withMethod('POST').withPath('URL')
.withJson({
"type": "test", "id": "test", "cred": "test"
}).withHeaders({ "Content-Type": "application/json" }).expectStatus(200)
.returns((ctx) => {
convert.parseString(ctx.res.body, (err, resp) => {
if (err) console.log(err)
return resp['Token']['value'];
})
})
}})

and when I parse datamap like below

const val = parse('$M{appToken.appTokenValue}')
console.log(val) is printing $M{appToken.appTokenValue}

Can you check if I am using .returns correct way, as inside it only I am converting xml response to json and fetch token value?

[mailtwogopal]

Hi ASaiAnudeep, This can be mark resolved as I was doing something wrong in returning inside async function. I realized that I had to pass callback function as the parameter to the function and then return token back with callback(token). I am all set and Thanks for your help here.