Updating DEVTEST VS with new RR pairs is not working

Products

• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

Facing issues using Service Virtualization API V3 call for updating the existing Virtual Service and here are the steps followed:

. Created a VS in Workstation which has many transactions.

. When try to add a valid RR pair with Update Virtual Service POST /vses/{vseName}/services/{virtualServiceName} call in Postman, getting a valid response but sometimes:

  - An error thrown "Transaction number doesn't have any response" and can't do any updates.

  - Deletes the existing transactions.

  - VS will be redeployed but will not update.

Using the patch lisa-virtualize-invoke-10.6.0-DE506186.war in Devtest_Home/webserver/patches folder.

Environment

Release : 10.6

Component : CA Service Virtualization

Cause

When any of the below are performed, it causes issues while updating VS's.

. Using of invalid RR pairs.

. VSI Response have empty body tags.

. Merging of VSI's in Workstation.

Resolution

Please open a support case and refer to DE507742. We have a patch that resolves the issue. 

How to fix the empty responses in existing VSI:

Edited the VSI file in Notepad

Searched the empty response with </m>\r\n</rp>

Replaced with </m><bd chs="UTF-8">{&#13;&#10;&#9;&#13;&#10;}</bd>\r\n</rp> .

Now the empty responses will have {}

Additional Information

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/devops/devtest-solutions/10-6/using/using-the-apis/service-virtualization-api-v3.html