How to print a request body when using a data-template

[zac11]

As obvious from the title, I am looking to see what body is being sent in the request when I'm using a data-template. Using the inpect() method doesn't give the actual request body - it just shows the template only

Sample code :

const { spec, stash, request } = require('pactum');
require('dotenv').config();
const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');

const baseURL = process.env.API_BASE_URL;
request.setBaseUrl(baseURL);

stash.getDataTemplate({
    'NewUser': {
        "name": faker.person.firstName(),
        "job": faker.person.lastName()
    }
});

it(' creates a new user', async () => {
    await spec()
        .post('/api/users')
        .withJson({
            '@DATA:TEMPLATE@': 'NewUser',
        })
        .inspect()
        .expectStatus(201);
});

When I run this test, I get this output

[W] Inspecting Request & Response
[W] Request
{
  "url": "https://reqres.in/api/users",
  "method": "POST",
  "path": "/api/users",
  "body": {
    "@DATA:TEMPLATE@": "NewUser"
  },
  "timeout": 3000
}
[W] Response
{
  "statusCode": 201,
  "headers": {
    "date": "Tue, 30 May 2023 07:28:35 GMT",
    "content-type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    "content-length": "79",
    "connection": "keep-alive",
    "x-powered-by": "Express",
    "access-control-allow-origin": "*",
    "etag": "W/\"4f-Kg0iKze1KD3LERXUBbOE/0T/TMc\"",
    "via": "1.1 vegur",
    "cf-cache-status": "DYNAMIC",
    "report-to": "{\"endpoints\":[{\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\\/report\\/v3?s=LgmLllvNkgKHP%2Fq8grIeR%2FmfmchbFa%2Fj7M6hAfeTf8geJ0mfWJio9isAolejAPyQqv%2B5rBOCvO5YL6iIm9YGHXIohaNcSvfXgr6WqtWWbW9f4f3TJtX223WtGg%3D%3D\"}],\"group\":\"cf-nel\",\"max_age\":604800}",
    "nel": "{\"success_fraction\":0,\"report_to\":\"cf-nel\",\"max_age\":604800}",
    "server": "cloudflare",
    "cf-ray": "7cf542dce91e6ed4-BOM"
  },
  "body": {
    "@DATA:TEMPLATE@": "NewUser",
    "id": "770",
    "createdAt": "2023-05-30T07:28:35.627Z"
  }

which is not helpful as I cannot see what is the firstname and lastname being sent. Can someone quide me in find this out.

Thanks

[ASaiAnudeep]

By default, pactum will print the parsed value. I see there was a typo while using data templates. Please use addDataTemplate method to include new templates

stash.addDataTemplate({
    'NewUser': {
        "name": faker.person.firstName(),
        "job": faker.person.lastName()
    }
});