Connecting Katalon Studio into XLS and CSV files

Since reading from external source files has become an important part of how we get data, I wanted to put together some simple examples to show reading data from a CSV file, an XLS file and from a Database source. All three are very similar and since Katalon handles most of the work, it's easy to grab data from a file with just a few lines of code.

We start by using the TestData library and reference the "Test Data File" from the "Data Files" object in the project. That is done with:
TestData csvData = findTestData("Data Files/Data Source Name")

Once we have that, we can use some of the built in Katalon keywords to get the number of rows in the file and the column names.
int rowCount=csvData.getRowNumbers()
List columnNamesList=csvData.getColumnNames()

Once we have that information we know how many rows we can read and how many columns. We then use getValue to read our piece of information.
temp1=csvData.getValue(columnName, rowNumber)

When working with a database, there is one small addition. We can use getAllData to retrieve all the items that have been returned from the query. This isn't a necessary step since we can still get the number of rows and parse through the data. However, if the entire block of data is needed, getAllData can be used.
List resultSet=dbData.getAllData()

In such a case, your data will be returned in this format:
[[04GA, 61], [04OC, 93], [02OC, 334]]

For the above we have the SKU followed by the quantity.

Again, Katalon provides a very simple way of connecting into different kids of data sources and retrieving information. This has certainly improved my Test Cases and opened up a variety of test possibilities.

Read data from CSV file

TestData csvData = findTestData("Data Files/csvDataSource")

int rowCount=csvData.getRowNumbers()
println rowCount
int rowNumber=1
List columnNamesList=csvData.getColumnNames()

columnName=columnNamesList.indexOf("columnName")+1
println columnName
temp1=csvData.getValue(columnName, rowNumber)
println temp1
Read data from XLS file

TestData xlsData = findTestData("Data Files/Inventory Items")

int rowCount=xlsData.getRowNumbers()
println rowCount
int rowNumber=1
List columnNamesList=xlsData.getColumnNames()

columnName=columnNamesList.indexOf("Item Name")+1
println columnName
temp1=xlsData.getValue(columnName, rowNumber)
println temp1
Read data from Database

TestData dbData = findTestData("Data Files/PostgresDB")
numOfResults=dbData.getRowNumbers()
List columnNamesList=dbData.getColumnNames()
println columnNamesList
List resultSet=dbData.getAllData()
for (loop = 0; loop <=(numOfResults-1); loop++) {
    println(resultSet[loop])
}

temp1=dbData.getValue(2, 1)
println temp1
temp2=dbData.getValue(3, 1)
println temp2
columnName=columnNamesList.indexOf("column name")
println "column Position:" + columnName
Then again, I could be wrong.

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