Scenario Editor Store Target and Post-processing

You can use the Store tab in the scenario editor to define extractors that can "listen" for a particular Step and Request and extract data of its response.

When creating a Store entry or an Assert entry in the Scenario Editor, you need to configure the Target depending on the type of response.

Also, you might require to apply some post-processing to the response. In this document, you will find examples of the possible values that can be used for the Target and the Post-processing inputs.

PostProcessing

Here is a list of examples of all the possible functions that can be used for post-processing entry.
value() returns the extracted value.

substring(value(), 0, 2)
substring(URLEncode(value(), 2)
URLEncode(value())
URLDecode(value())
append(value(),"-abc123")
length(value())
URLParam(value(),'id')

Target

In the same way, the TARGET can have a hint text that should be dynamic according to the selected Target.
The // characters indicate a comment and is not part of the target, with the exception of the HTML target that is an XPath.

DEFAULT Targets

duration        //  returns the request duration
responseCode   //  returns the response status code
size           //  returns de size in bytes of the response
md5            //  returns checksum md4 value of the response

HTTP Targets

Given the response is the following string: "data=45, data=68" then

raw/data[0]              //  returns 'data=45' and "raw/data[1]" returns 'data=68'
#data                    //  returns 45
Header:Accept            //  returns de value of the header Accept
CookieValue:CSRF-TOKEN   //  returns de value of the cookie CSRF-TOKEN

HTML Targets

Use normal XPaths to extract values from HTML. Note that in this case the double slash at the beginning is needed in the target.

//input[@name='__RequestVerificationToken']/@value

JSON Targets

Use JSON paths to extract values from JSON responses, like

employees[0].address.city
[2].carousel.images[1].path

PDF Targets

document                           // gets all text in document except forms text
page[2]                            // returns al text in page 2 except forms text
documentforms                      // gets a json with contents of the forms in the document
regex:Once upon a .* ever after.   // returns text that matches the regular expression if found.

STRING Targets

Given the response is the following string: "The tested processed returned: ID=ABCDEF." then

11,20"         // returns "processed"
ID=,false      // returns "ABCDEF."
ID=,true       // returns "ID=ABCDEF."
ID=,38,false   // returns "ABCDE"
ID=38,true     // returns "ID=ABCDE"

TEXT Targets

The target should be specified as a regular expression, like:

(?<=\"__RequestVerificationToken\" type=\"hidden\" value=\")[a-zA-Z0-9\\-_]+   
id=.*

CSV Targets

Given that you have a response formatted as a CSV with the following data

Then:

2,2                 // returns barry
last(),"name"       // returns karla
,"name"             // returns a string array {"name","john","barry","stef","karla"}
3,last()            // returns Texas
id=3, 2             // returns stef