Functions... who needs stinkin Functions! 😁 [Breakout From Other Thread]

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@aosemwengie1

Sorry I didn’t mean to derail your thread

Refer here:

https://www.epiusers.help/t/lets-share-useful-functions-sharing-is-caring/100371/18

[Mark_Wonsil]

@Banderson

In all seriousness, if you use the variables functionality in postman, you can set up all of your stuff for a template, and even a quick switcher for environments

Love Postman. I’m also keeping my eye on Playwright. It looks like it will be able to automate the testing of our Kinetic UI pages (in the browser) AND do API testing like Postman. All tests in one place? That would be nice.

[JasonMcD (Jason McDermott)]

@aosemwengie1

also not be able to test them without building something to call it is frustrating

I mean, I agree, but how exactly do you test a BPM? You have to do WAY more setup to test that, no? Like others have said, with Functions, there is at least a way to test via Postman.

I guess some of you all have a way to test BPMs with, what, VB or VS or some acronym? I mean, Postman is much simpler to me to wrap my head around. Epicor even documents how to use it. Not to mention there is the API interactive “help” page.

@Mark_Wonsil

Honestly, if you know how to do BPMs, you’re most of the way to functions. There is a lot of shared experience there.

Agreed - and I’d argue Functions are much easier… or at least I mess them up much less. Again, I think it goes back to the whole idea that I can test them! And in bits and pieces.

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@JasonMcD

API interactive “help” page

Swagger

[aosemwengie1 (Alisa Osemwengie)]

Yes I have the same complaint about BPMs. Its a PITA to have to set up a whole scenario and trigger it over and over again instead of just being able to test the code directly.

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

Since we’re all yacking, I’ll mention something about functions some of you may not know.

When calling a function server side, NOT via rest, objects are passed by reference, and can
be manipulated and it will change the passed object.

[Olga (Olga Klimova)]

imagine you will have to setup all input tables for some method by your own on start of that BPM test method? Does not look very friendly to me either.