Properties

Section Setting and Referencing Properties explains how to use properties within Frank configurations. Can you also reference properties within Larva tests? The answer is yes, but there is a caveat.

The steps below show you how to work with properties within Larva.

1. Start from your work for section Services.

2. Introduce a property in Frank2Manual/classes/StageSpecifics_LOC.properties as shown:

   stub4testtool.configuration=true
   hermesAddress=hermesAddressRequest.xml
   

3. Update Frank2Manual/tests/hermesBridge/scenario01.properties to reference the property:

   scenario.description = Hermes requests address from Conscience
   
   include = common.properties
   
   step1.adapter.toConscience.write = scenario01/${hermesAddress}
   step2.stub.conscience.read = scenario01/conscienceAddressRequest.xml
   step3.stub.conscience.write = scenario01/conscienceAddress.xml
   step4.adapter.toConscience.read = scenario01/hermesAddress.xml
   

4. Run the Larva tests again. They should still succeed.

Here is the caveat. Larva does not know properties that are defined in layer “Configurations” shown in subsection Deployment Environment Characteristics. These are typically defined in a subdirectory of directory configurations, or in a subdirectory of src/main/configurations in case of a Maven project. Only system properties and properties in layer “Frank!Framework + classes” are known.