Data overriding through plan is not working as expected about nexial-core

[mikeliucc]

Perhaps I didn't understand the issue completely... I created my own example, and was able to execute the plan as expected.

Here's the plan:

I have 3 steps here to show a variety of confirmation that the data loading logic is working as expected. My intention is show that Nexial can:

1. load data from a single data sheet (Plan Step 1).
2. load data from multiple data sheets, with the latter overriding the former (Plan Step 2).
3. load data from multiple data sheets, with the latter overriding only the iteration configuration (Plan Step 3).

My data file is pretty simple:
#default:

Scenario1:

Scenario2:

Scenario3:

The script simply sums up the numbers and assert totals against ${expected-sum}:

I added a few flow control and a pause at the end so that I can examine the output as the execution goes along. Even without looking at the progress of the execution, one can reply on the first step base >> verbose() to see that the data is loaded correctly. Here are the snippets of the log file:

Plan Step 1, Iteration 1

Plan Step 1, Iteration 2

Plan Step 1, Iteration 3

Plan Step 2, Iteration 1 (iteration id = 2)

Plan Step 2, Iteration 2 (iteration id = 3)

Plan Step 2, Iteration 3 (iteration id = 4)

Plan Step 3, Iteration 1 (iteration id = 2)

Plan Step 3, Iteration 2 (iteration id = 3)

Plan Step 3, Iteration 3 (iteration id = 5)

I'm attaching my example project and log file here for your reference:
SampleWorkingExample.zip
nexial-20200803_214927.2020-08-03.log

Would you mind giving this a try from your environment?

[mikeliucc]

OK.. found the issue -- turns out that when the latter datasheet specifies an iteration of a higher number than that of a previously loaded datasheet, Nexial then resorts to using only the iteration data that was previously loaded. As such iteration data outside the specified iteration(s) of the previously datasheet was not subsequently available.

Good catch!

Code fixes have been implemented. Please give it a try with build #884 (or later). Thanks for reporting this!

automike

[pvpurohit]

The fixes worked as expected. Thank You Mike for the quick build.