topic Re: HTTP monitor - Post-execution script - XML format in the response in Synthetic Monitoring

HTTP monitor - Post-execution script - XML format in the response

carlos_ortega — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 07:59:02 GMT

Hi,

I have a HTTP Check in which I receive the response in XML format. However, I need to use that response in a post-execution script to launch a second request to other HTTP web service.

I have read that Json in the only format in which we could use the post-execution script. So, Is there any way to convert the XML response to a JSON format in the "post-execution script" that we could add in a Http monitor?.

Thanks

Carlos

Re: HTTP monitor - Post-execution script - XML format in the response

HannahM — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:46:20 GMT

Hi Carlos,

you should be fine working with xml without converting it. This is a snippet I used for finding a string in an xml response:

var body = response.getResponseBody();
PubDateString = body.match(/<pubDate>(.*?)<\/pubDate>/g)[0];
api.info("PubDateString is : "+PubDateString);

Re: HTTP monitor - Post-execution script - XML format in the response

jkinner — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:47:49 GMT

This solution worked for me to parse some SOAP/XML.

I wish Dynatrace would update their documentation to tell you all the methods that work in the pre & post-execution boxes for synthetics. It frustrating that you have to come to the community to find out that certain javascript methods work in the boxes. Just tell us up front. The documentation for working with JSON is pretty good.