Jira automation, For each Smart Value not working as expected

[Tiele Declercq]

Hi,

My smart value: smart value: {{webResponses.body.body.view.value.match("<tr><th[^\>]*><p><strong>Application Administrator</strong></p></th><td[^\>]*><p>(.+?)</p></td></tr>").match("<a .+?data-account-id=\"(.+?)\".+?>.+?</a>")}}

Returns a list of 3 user id's in logging formatted as: [xxx, yyy, zzz]

When I add Advanced branching, with this smart value I would expect that it fires 3 times but it does not. It fires once and shows [~accountid:5cf5014468fe490f20938072, 5af545395f0d5b06c28a8a76, 5f8d5e48606d40006928bcbd]

How can I loop through this list and perform actions with each of these items?

[Tiele Declercq · Accepted solution]

{{myVar.first}}

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Tiele Declercq 

That match() function result is an array, rather than a list.

So the work-around when this happens is to strip off the square brackets with chained, remove() function calls, followed by a split() to create a list.  Storing your original parsing into a created variable can help with this.

{{yourCreatedVariable.remove("[").remove("]").remove(" ").split(",")}}

Kind regards,
Bill

[Tiele Declercq]

Bill, thank you for the tip as you were partially on to something.

When I do

{{myVar.count}}

It showed only 1 item. However..

{{myVar.first.count}}

Did the trick and gave me 3 results. So I was getting a nested list back from the match function and had to use the first item to loop through.  

[Bill Sheboy]

To help diagnose things like this in the future, I recommend first writing the entire web response to the audit log.  And then as you drill down you can write more expressions to the log to observe you are getting what is expected.