Service Virtualization

Hi Everybody,

In one of the virtual service that I currently implement, I need to have response that is partially genereated. The point is, that I need to have value in response to be chosen from several values, e.g A, AB, CD.

I try to use string pattern in response in vsi. I'm able to generate proper response, when it is single letter or number, for example: {{=[::[A,B]]}} generates A or B. How to modify this pattern to have in response A,B, or CD?

thanks in advance

Wojtek

Hello Wojtek,

Try to use 

{{=[::\AB]}} for "AB", 

{{=[::[A,B]]}} for "A" or "B" 

and {{=[::C\D]}} for "CD".

Hope it helps.

Thank you,

Heloisa

Heloisa -

I have a use case which is similar but slightly different from the solution you suggested.  In your example you provided 3 different patterns to generate the 3 different solutions. I don't think this was what the original poster was looking for - definitely not what I need.

I need one pattern which can select from the SET options.

In the pattern definitions CA provides an option to choose from a SET such as:

9[a,b,c]

Each time this pattern was called it would return either 9a, 9b, or 9c

In my use case, I need either 9dog, 9cat, or 9yeti.

Logically, this would be a pattern that looked like the following:

9[dog,cat,yeti].

This doesn't work.  The pattern tells me: The pick list item has more than one character. near index 1
9[dog,cat,yeti]  ^

Question 1 - is this a defect or unsupported usage of the pattern set option?  If so, this would be a big improvement.

Question 2 - short of coding, how would you do this.  I know I can code but the patterns work for 40 other cases I have so I prefer to not make an exception for this situation.

Hi Tom,

Q1: I believe it is working as designed.

Q2: Would it solve your problem if you use a local, random dataset?

--Mike

Bummer that it is working as designed. I think the ability to pick a multi-character value from the set would be very useful. vs being restricted to single character . I am creating shipping carrier tracking numbers and there are frequent situations where there are pattern groups that are used to signify mail classes as an example.

Regarding your Q2 – Possibly. It’s just not as elegant. 39 of my 40 pieces of data can be derived from the patterns, and for this one case I need to implement a random data set then pass it around as a property.

I was trying to keep the code intuitive.

Hopefully if you see the value you can propose it as a feature.

Hi Tom,

I wanted to make sure you didn't misunderstand what I meant by "random dataset".  I didn't mean a custom dataset to generate random values.  I meant a traditional CSV dataset with the "random" selector checked.

--Mike

Wojtek,

Did Heloisa's recommendations resolve this issue?

Regards,

Reid