Running requests with different variables from a data set - postman

I have a request in postman that has:
two separate variables in the link
one Headers variable
I want to be able to export a csv file with 2 columns (variable 1, variable 2) and run the same request but with different variables sourced from csv file over and over until it's done.
Is it possible?

yes it is.
You can access the Data by {{ColumnName}} in your URI, Header, Body.
To access the data in test-code oder pre-request-script-code just use data.ColumnName or data["Column Name"] in case of blanks in Column names. In your case data.sVenueId and data.shares
You can use the Runner to import the CSV and run the requests for each row as an iteration.
The CSV file has to look like this:
sVenueId,shares
data1,data2
data3,data4
...

Related

What is AWS S3 dataset?

Looking at documentation of awswrangler.s3.to_csv or awswrangler.s3.to_parquet, there is a dataset parameter.
From testing, it looks like setting dataset=True allows, among other things, to append new data to an already existing set. It also looks like when dataset=True, I can't specify the file name and AWS autogenerates the names for the files which are added to the specified path.
Apart from that, I can't find more information on what dataset means. Is it just referring to the general concept or is there a specific meaning within the context of AWS? What exactly is dataset and when should it be set to True?
The dataset=True option allows you to store the entire dataset, including all metadata, indexes, etc.
The dataset parameter documentation:
dataset (bool) – If True store as a dataset instead of ordinary file(s) If True, enable all follow arguments: partition_cols, mode, database, table, description, parameters, columns_comments, concurrent_partitioning, catalog_versioning, projection_enabled, projection_types, projection_ranges, projection_values, projection_intervals, projection_digits, catalog_id, schema_evolution.
Note all those extra things that get saved when you save a dataset. All that information, like columns_comments, concurrent_partitioning, projection_values, will be lost when you save to CSV or Parquet. But on the other hand, those values are probably only useful if you plan to do further manipulation of the data via awswrangler/pandas at some later date.
Also note that if you set dataset=True you have to give it a file name prefix instead of a single file name, because the output generated will be spread across multiple files.
If you want to use the data in any other tool besides Pandas, such as loading the CSV into Excel, then you most likely want to set dataset=False and output to a single file.

How to create files having date in the file name using big query export data statement

I am using BIG QUERY EXPORT DATA statement to create files in cloud storage for an another team to extract for further reprocessing. I am using below statement, not pasting the select query as its huge.
EXPORT DATA OPTIONS(
uri='gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/Customer_Master_*.csv',
format='CSV',
overwrite=true,
header=true,
field_delimiter='|') AS
SELECT
I see below files getting created in my cloud storage bucket
radhika_sharma_ibm#cloudshell:~ (whr-asia-datalake-nonprod)$ gsutil ls gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/
gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/
gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/Customer_Master_000000000000.csv
gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/Customer_Master_000000000001.csv
gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/Customer_Master_000000000002.csv
I cannot remove the suffix part as BIG QUERY creates it, but I am wondering if I can create files with DATE in the file name for the other team to identify what date it is created for??
That is like
Customer_Master_04022021_000000000000_.csv
I need to have a date in my file. Any help or inputs please?
Is there a work around or I will have to go with a data flow here that is using a data flow job to extract data from table in a file.
You can use the uri value as:
'gs://bucket/folder/your_filename-'||current_datetime()||'-*.csv'
Either Current_date() or current_datetime() can be used.
Thanks

Big query EXPORT DATA statement creating mutiple files with no data and just header record

I have read similar issue here but not able to understand if this is fixed.
Google bigquery export table to multiple files in Google Cloud storage and sometimes one single file
I am using below big query EXPORT DATA OPTIONS to export the data from 2 tables in a file. I have written select query for the same.
EXPORT DATA OPTIONS(
uri='gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/Customer_Master_'||CURRENT_DATE()||'*.csv',
format='CSV',
overwrite=true,
header=true,
field_delimiter='|') AS
SELECT
I have only 2 rows returning from my select query and I assume that only one file should be getting created in google cloud storage. Multiple files are created only when data is more than 1 GB. thats what I understand.
However, 3 files got created in cloud storage where 2 files just had the header record and the third file has 3 records(one header and 2 actual data record)
radhika_sharma_ibm#cloudshell:~ (whr-asia-datalake-nonprod)$ gsutil ls gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/
gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/
gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/Customer_Master_2021-02-04000000000000.csv
gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/Customer_Master_2021-02-04000000000001.csv
gs://whr-asia-datalake-dev-standard/outbound/Adobe/Customer_Master_2021-02-04000000000002.csv
Why empty files are getting created?
Can anyone please help? We don't want to create empty files. I believe only one file should be created when it is 1 GB. more than 1 GB, we should have multiple files but NOT empty.
You have to force all data to be loaded into one worker. In this way you will be exporting only one file (if <1Gb).
My workaround: add a select distinct * on top of the Select statement.
Under the hood, BigQuery utilizes multiple workers to read and process different sections of data and when we use wildcards, each worker would create a separate output file.
Currently BigQuery produces empty files even if no data is returned and thus we get multiple empty files. The Bigquery product team is aware of this issue and they are working to fix this, however there is no ETA which can be shared.
There is a public issue tracker that will be updated with periodic progress. You can STAR the issue to receive automatic updates and give it traction by referring to this link.
However for the time being I would like to provide a workaround as follows:
If you know that the output will be less than 1GB, you can specify a single URI to get a single output file. However, the EXPORT DATA statement doesn’t support Single URI.
You can use the bq extract command to export the BQ table.
bq --location=location extract \
--destination_format format \
--compression compression_type \
--field_delimiter delimiter \
--print_header=boolean \
project_id:dataset.table \
gs://bucket/filename.ext
In fact bq extract should not have the empty file issue like the EXPORT DATA statement even when you use Wildcard URI.
I faced the same empty files issue when using EXPORT DATA.
After doing a bit of R&D found the solution. Put LIMIT xxx in your SELECT SQL and it will do the trick.
You can find the count, and put that as LIMIT value.
SELECT ....
FROM ...
WHERE ...
LIMIT xxx
It turns out you need to enforce multiple files, wildcard syntax. Either a file for CSV or folder for other like AVRO.
The uri option must be a single-wildcard URI as described
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/other-statements
Specifying a wildcard seems to start several workers to work on the extract, and as per the documentation, size of the exported files will vary.
Zero-length files is unusual but technically possible if the first worker is done before any other really get started. Hence why the wildcard is expected to be used only when you think your exported data will be larger than the 1 GB
I have just faced the same with Parquet but found out that bq CLI works, which should do for any format.
See (and star for traction) https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/181016197

Postman: Define a variable from list

I'm using Postman and wondering if I can use a stored JSON object to create variable for additional calls. For an example: I saved an array which include name and ID:
[{"id":28,"name":"Action"},{"id":12,"name":"Adventure"},
{"id":16,"name":"Animation"},{"id":35,"name":"Comedy"},
{"id":80,"name":"Crime"},{"id":99,"name":"Documentary"},
{"id":18,"name":"Drama"},{"id":10751,"name":"Family"},
{"id":14,"name":"Fantasy"},{"id":36,"name":"History"},
{"id":27,"name":"Horror"},{"id":10402,"name":"Music"},
{"id":9648,"name":"Mystery"},{"id":10749,"name":"Romance"},
{"id":878,"name":"Science Fiction"},{"id":10770,"name":"TV Movie"},
{"id":53,"name":"Thriller"},{"id":10752,"name":"War"},
{"id":37,"name":"Western"}]
I'm triggering another API (second call) that retrieves only IDs, so the response is like this: "genre_ids": [35, 10402]
Is there a way to create an environment variable that looks for the IDs, fetch the relevant name from the second API and create a name oriented variable so on the case above 35=comedy and 10402=music so the variable will be: comedy,music?
to save environment variable you can do the following (see the snippets on the right side of postman):
postman.setEnvironmentVariable("variable_key", "variable_value");
if you want to save a global variable just do :
postman.setGlobalVariable("variable_key", "variable_value");
and then use them as you want.
Alexandre
Definitely it's possible with "Tests"(or Post-Request) script.
But since you have 2 requests(and Postman force you there should be 2 separated requests) you should save response from first request into variable with setEnvironmentVariable or setGlobalVariable and after getting response for 2nd request - to parse response for first one and iterate over it, looking up by id given.

Informatica target file

I have a workflow which writes data from a table into a flatfile. It works just fine, but I want to insert a blank line inbetween each records. How can this be achieved ? Any pointer ?
Here, you can create 2 target instances. One with the proper data and in other instance pass blank line. Set Merge Type as "Concurrent Merge" in session properties.
Multiple possibilities -
You can prepare appropriate dataset into a relational table, and afterwards, dump data from that into a flat file. For preparation of that data set, you can insert blank rows into that relational target.
Send a blank line to a separate target file (based on some business condition using a router or something similar), after that you can use merge files option (in session config) to get that data into a single file.