Data template is not working as expected

[JyotiPMallick]

I have my test framework which have few suites, for example componenttest. Where I have few api's for post request type. I am trying to use the data template but getting error.

example of the spec file:

 it("02: Create New User : Expected 200 Status Code", async () => {
    const response = await spec()
      .post(`${configAPIEndPoint.BASE_URL}/common/jobs`)
      .withBearerToken(bearerTOKEN)
      .withHeaders("Content-Type", "application/json")
      .withBody(
       `{'@DATA:TEMPLATE@' : 'CommonJobs',}` 
      )
      .expectStatus(200)
      .expectBodyContains("message", "Success!");

      console.log(response)
  });

Now my body accept a JSON file and which I have used as data template,

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

stash.addDataTemplate({
    'CommonJobs' : {
        "title"             : "Automation Test Suite Sample User 1",
        "location"          : "Hyderabad",
        "jobDescription"    : "Validation Engineer 1",
        "jobRequirements"   : "BE",
        "experience"        : "Experienced"
    }
});

The only difference is the spec file is present is ../test/componenttest/usermanagement.spec.js and the data template file is present in ../test/data/componentTest.DataSet.js

[ASaiAnudeep]

Hello @JyotiPMallick ,

Couple of things,

• try using withJson({ '@DATA:TEMPLATE@': 'CommonJobs' })
• try loading the file at the start of test execution - Ex: https://github.com/pactumjs/pactum-examples/blob/main/data-management/tests/_base.spec.js

[JyotiPMallick]

Thank you for the answer @ASaiAnudeep , just a follow up question if my request parameter is strict on withBody will it work ?

[ASaiAnudeep]

It should work

[JyotiPMallick]

It worked like a charm, closing this conversation