Dynamic Values

The following configuration files: SecurityFuzzer file, FunctionalFuzzer file and --refData support setting dynamic values. For now the support only exists for java.time.* and org.apache.commons.lang3.*, but more types will be added in the future.

Let's suppose you have a date/date-time field, and you want to set it to 10 days from now. You can do this using T(java.time.OffsetDateTime).now().plusDays(10). This will return an ISO compliant time in UTC format.

This is FunctionalFuzzer file using the above dynamic value:

/path:
    testNumber:
        description: Short description of the test
        prop: value
        prop#subprop: "T(java.time.OffsetDateTime).now().plusDays(10)"
        prop7:
          - value1
          - value2
          - value3
        oneOfSelection:
          element#type: "Value"
        expectedResponseCode: HTTP_CODE
        httpMethod: HTTP_NETHOD

You can check the responses using a similar syntax and also take into consideration the response. This will check if the expiry field returned within the json response, parsed as date, is after the current date T(java.time.LocalDate).now().isBefore(T(java.time.LocalDate).parse(expiry.toString())):

/path:
    testNumber:
        description: Short description of the test
        prop: value
        prop#subprop: "T(java.time.OffsetDateTime).now().plusDays(10)"
        prop7:
          - value1
          - value2
          - value3
        oneOfSelection:
          element#type: "Value"
        expectedResponseCode: HTTP_CODE
        httpMethod: HTTP_NETHOD
        verify:
          checkBoolean: T(java.time.LocalDate).now().isBefore(T(java.time.LocalDate).parse(expiry.toString()))

info

Notice the keyword checkBoolean which will test if the expression is true. This is very useful when doing assertions on response data when running functional tests.

The syntax of dynamically setting dates is compliant with the Spring Expression Language specs.

Dynamic expressions can also refer variables or request/response fields internally. In the example above, expiry is a field returned in the response. If you want to refer a variable created in a previous test, let's call it petName, you can do so as: T(org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils).substringAfterLast(${petName},'a'). You can also refer request elements using ${request#field}.