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Exclude Patterns for Request Message Correlation

You can use the Exclude Patterns for Request Message Correlation table to define patterns that are excluded for both URL query parameters and , payload elements, or payload attributes. Any URL query parameters and , payload elements, or payload attributes matching an exclude pattern will be ignored. Element names are specified as exact matches or using a wildcard (*) to match everything. Value patterns are specified as regular expressions.  For For example, the table below demonstrates an exclude pattern to ignore timestamps.

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POST /parabank/services/bank/billpay?accountId=54321&amount=100 HTTP/1.1
Host: parabank.parasoft.com
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 160
Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Origin: https://parabank.parasoft.com
Referer: https://parabank.parasoft.com/parabank/billpay.htm
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Cookie: JSESSIONID=C86B598044C4F61C21A0DCFE019AC19B

{
	"address": {
		"street": "West 57th Street",
		"city": "New New YorkManhattan",
		"state": "NY",
		"zipCode": "10019"
	},
	"name": "Hubert J. Farnsworth",
	"phoneNumber": "212-123-4567",
	"accountNumber": "56789"
}

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For example, consider the following XML payload in a request file without headers:

{
	"address": {
		"street": "West 57th Street",
		"city": "New New York",
		"state": "NY",
		"zipCode": "10019"
	},
	"name": "Hubert J. Farnsworth",
	"phoneNumber": "212-123-4567",
	"accountNumber": "56789"
}

<customerDetails>
    <address>
        <street>West 57th Street</street>
        <city>Manhattan</city>
        <state code="NY">New York</state>
        <zipCode>10019</zipCode>
    </address>
    <name title="Prof.">Hubert J. Farnsworth</name>
    <contactDetails>
        <phoneNumber type="home">212-123-4567</phoneNumber>
    </contactDetails>
    <accountDetails>
        <accountNumber>56789</accountNumber>
    </accountDetails>
</customerDetails>

You can exclude certain traffic patterns from the request matching process using the Exclude Patterns for Request Message Correlation table. For example, if you want to ignore the "phoneNumber" element and the "type" attribute" when matching requests, you could enter the following:

Copying Request and Response Messages from HTTP Traffic Files

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