How to do if-then-else during testing

[xu4wang]

Hi Greetings,

I'm testing some APIs. sometimes, I need to call an API based on the response of the previous API. For example, in below hurl file, if the user with user_email is not available, I want to skip the DELETE entry.

GET {{host}}/users
Authorization: Bearer {{access_token_admin}}
[QueryStringParams]
filter[email][_eq]:{{user_email}}

HTTP 200
[Captures]
user_uuid:  jsonpath "$.data[0].id" 

DELETE {{host}}/users/{{user_uuid}}
Authorization: Bearer {{access_token_admin}}

For now, if I run above hurl file, it complains

austin@dev testing % hurl --variables-file dev.env ./tests/1.user.hurl
error: No query result
   --> ./tests/1.user.hurl:54:13
    |
 54 | user_uuid:  jsonpath "$.data[0].id" 
    |             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The query didn't return any result
    |

I am not sure if I can do this in hurl, or is there a good practice doing this?

BR,Austin

[fabricereix]

Supporting a skip option could work (#1815)

DELETE {{host}}/users/{{user_uuid}}
Authorization: Bearer {{access_token_admin}}
[Options]
skip: user_uuid not exists

[mjhcorporate]

In the Postman world, this is solved with something that boils down to GOTO <requestName>. The semantics aren't a great fit to hurl (which does not have request names), and programming with GOTOs is messy, but it allows if/else, do/while, and (by using dynamic variables decremented with test-javascript) for-loops.
A skip would be less powerful -- but also less confusing!

[chrisguest75]

This is the current challenge with hurl for me. I love the simplified DSL approach to scripting tests. But we're missing features to enable certain types of testing. Simple conditional logic or branching, full persisted captures for analysis & interrogation and hooks for cleanup.

Maybe people have a few tricks to achieve the above. I'd be interested to hear if they do

[jcamiel]

--skip option has been implemented in #1815 that enable request skipping:

GET https://bar.com
[Options]
skip: true
HTTP 200

GET https://baz.com
HTTP 200

[tbmreza]

Will hurl ever see syntax for if-else, or even for-loops? The template language stands too much in the way for expressiveness...