Web Request Naming - Placeholder using regex

[phalgun]

Hi

I am trying to name web requests using Placeholder. I have two web requests variations that must be named in the same format. How do I achieve this? I tried the regex way but I am not able to make it possessive as lookbacks and lookaheads are not allowed in DT. OR is there a non-regex solution? 

Original Web Requests

1. URL Path is /folder1/ws?serviceName=aBcD&methodName=xYz

2. URL Path is /folder1/ws?methodName=xYz&serviceName=aBcD

I need both of them to be renamed as 'Web Service - xYz'.

My solution was this:

Condition - URL Query contains 'methodName='

Placeholder - variable called MName, using URL Query, Regex extraction, regex string is methodName=([a-zA-Z]+). unfortunately this is greedy, so DT does not allow this. I need to 'match' the methodName= string, but it should not be in the result. 

I cant use the before/after/between delimiter here since the position of the methodName changes. 

[ChadTurner · Accepted solution]

What if you add in the * for a value of methodName=([a-zA-Z]*+)

[phalgun]

Nice! that works! I was under the impression that both . and * are greedy and hence not allowed by DT. glad that * works. 

[ChadTurner · Accepted solution]

@phalgun I ran into the same issue with greedy quantifiers as well and kept looking and looking for a solution around the "+" I was extremely happy when I found that we could add the "*" to the + in order to negate the greedy classification 

[AbAmani]

Thanks Chad! That worked for me too .

[r_weber]

You might want to try lookaround matches like this:

(?<=methodName=)[aA-zZ]*(?=\&)