How to update CustomFields

[MateuszAlcumus]

Hello, I am struggling to understand how to update CustomFields, when creating new TestCase

            // download custom case fields for my project
            List<CaseField> customCaseFields = testRail.caseFields().list().execute();

            // add new case
            Case testCase = testRail.cases().add(suiteID, new Case().setTitle("New Test Case"), customCaseFields).execute();

Now I know that my customCaseFields, contains field called 'steps' (index 1 in the list)

How can I set value for this custom field when adding new test case?

[AbdelrhmanHamouda]

Hello,
I am not the maintainer of this project, so keep that in mind. That being said, this is how i'm creating a testcase with custom fields in addition to other few fields that are interesting to me.

/**
     * Dynamic creation of the test cases
     */
    private static int createTestCase(String testTitle, String testJiraRef, Section section) {
        Case testCase = new Case();
        testCase.setTitle(testTitle.toLowerCase().trim());
        testCase.setSectionId(section.getId());
        testCase.setRefs(testJiraRef);

        java.util.List<CaseField> caseFields = testRail.caseFields().list().execute();

        setCustomFields(testCase, Map.of(
                "CustomField1","field value 1"),
                "CustomField2", "field value 1"),
                "CustomField3", "field value 1"));

        testCase = testRail
                .cases()
                .add(section.getId(), testCase, caseFields)
                .execute();

        log.info("Created test case {}", testCase);
        return testCase.getId();
    }

Hope this helps.

[MateuszAlcumus]

Hello, I am not the maintainer of this project, so keep that in mind. That being said, this is how i'm creating a testcase with custom fields in addition to other few fields that are interesting to me.

/**
     * Dynamic creation of the test cases
     */
    private static int createTestCase(String testTitle, String testJiraRef, Section section) {
        Case testCase = new Case();
        testCase.setTitle(testTitle.toLowerCase().trim());
        testCase.setSectionId(section.getId());
        testCase.setRefs(testJiraRef);

        java.util.List<CaseField> caseFields = testRail.caseFields().list().execute();

        setCustomFields(testCase, Map.of(
                "CustomField1","field value 1"),
                "CustomField2", "field value 1"),
                "CustomField3", "field value 1"));

        testCase = testRail
                .cases()
                .add(section.getId(), testCase, caseFields)
                .execute();

        log.info("Created test case {}", testCase);
        return testCase.getId();
    }

Hope this helps.

Thank you for that, really helpful, could you please provide content of the 'setCustomField' method? Regards

[AbdelrhmanHamouda]

Hello,
I missed including it. my bad.

implementation of setCustomFields called by createTestCase

private static Case setCustomFields(Case caseToUpdate, Map customFields) {

        Set fieldNames = getCustomFields().stream().map(field->field.getName()).collect(Collectors.toSet());

        if (fieldNames.containsAll(customFields.keySet())) {
            caseToUpdate.setCustomFields(customFields);
        }
        else
            log.error("Could not update custom fields for case {}", caseToUpdate.getId());

        return caseToUpdate;
    }

implementation of getCustomFields called by setCustomFields

 private static List<CaseField> getCustomFields() {
        return testRail.caseFields().list().execute();
    }

The testRail object is just a simple object that is initialised earlier

private static TestRail testRail;

public static void initTestRail(){
            // create a TestRail instance
            testRail = TestRail
                    .builder(TEST_RAIL_ENDPOINT,"user name", "password")
                    .applicationName("TOOLBOX_TEST_RAIL_BOT").build();
}