DataDriven from CSV instead of Excel

Hi all

As Excel has it's limitations on the number of rows and colls, we need
an alternate way and a google lookup didn't light up the situation.
I found some message back from 2004 on this list where Jason Kissinger
wrote that he was implementing this and that it works:
"<csvFile file=3D"data.csv" param=3D"foo">
   <echo>Currently working on row ${foo.rowNum}</echo>
   <echo>  first column:  ${foo.column1}</echo>
   <echo>  second column:  ${foo.column2}</echo>
   <echo/>
</csvFile>
"
But I didn't see any other evidence of this or the code behind.

Is there something already existing in webtest or someone already
implemented such a plugin that he would share?

I just made some tests and it seems that it wouldn't be hard to
implement:
<groovy description="csv test" >
	new File("tests/test.csv").splitEachLine(",") {fields ->
		step.setWebtestProperty('field1', fields[0])
	}
</groovy> 
<echo message="test #{field1}" />

But I don't know exactly how to mix xml and groovy steps or better said
execute a group of steps for every loop with the data from the actual
line.

Does someone has a hint on this?

Best regards

Michel


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