karate.repeat creates a malformed JSON that is unable to traverse - karate

Question

I have a scenario where I need to call a secondary feature file that contains an API call where the response is a JSON object. However, I need to call this scenario multiple times, so I am using karate.repeat to achieve this. However, the resulting response is a malformed JSON that I cannot traverse.
This is what I am doing:
* def fun = function(i){ return karate.call('abc.feature#abc', value)}
* def loop = karate.repeat(2, fun)
* karate.log(loop)
The response I get is:
{
"Total_packages1": {
"package1": {
"tags": [
"kj21",
"j1",
"sj2",
"z1"
],
"expectedResponse": [
{
"firstName": "Name",
"lastName": "lastName",
"purchase": [
{
"title": "title",
"category": [
"a",
"b",
"c"
]
}
]
}
]
}
}
}
{
"Total_packages2": {
"package2": {
"tags": [
"kj212",
"j12",
"sj22",
"z12"
],
"expectedResponse": [
{
"firstName": "Name2",
"lastName": "lastName2",
"purchase": [
{
"title": "title2",
"category": [
"a2",
"b2",
"c2"
]
}
]
}
]
}
}
}
As you can see, Total_packages2 starts malformed. I need to grab the "tags" values from each package, however, I cannot simply do Total_packages1.package1.tags like I could with a single response in the JSON.
If I cannot achieve what I need by karate.repeat, is there another method that is recommended for looping like this? I haven't found anything in the documentation for this particular scenario.

Answer 1

Don't use karate.repeat() use call with a JSON array. Read this part of the docs: https://github.com/karatelabs/karate#data-driven-features