how to get actions in jobs using IDE in Chronicle SOAR

[messier63]

hi ,

i want to call few action items in jobs to validate some data and then run the jobs using the jobs scheduler 

but I'm getting some errors 

Below is the sample code I'm using 

from SiemplifyJob import SiemplifyJob
from SiemplifyAction import SiemplifyAction

INTEGRATION_NAME = "Automations"
SCRIPT_NAME = "JobTemplate"


def main():
    siemplify = SiemplifyJob()
    siemplify.LOGGER.info("A - ".format(siemplify))
    sm = SiemplifyAction()
    siemplify.LOGGER.info("B - ".format(sm))
    siemplify.script_name = SCRIPT_NAME # In order to use the SiemplifyLogger, you must assign a name to the script


    try:
        get_case_creation_time = sm.get_case_context_property('caseCreatedTime')
        
        print(get_case_creation_time)
        # .... CUSTOM LOGIC HERE....
        # .... CUSTOM LOGIC HERE....
        # .... CUSTOM LOGIC HERE....

    except Exception as e:
        siemplify.LOGGER.error("General error performing Job {}".format(SCRIPT_NAME))
        siemplify.LOGGER.exception(e)
        raise

    siemplify.end_script()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

and below is the error I'm getting

[2024-06-12,08:42:10,000 INFO] A - 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/siemplify/siemplify_server/bin/Scripting/PythonSDK/IntegrationsVirtualEnvironment/#/Automations_V24.0/ayhheqp2.u01/iwewa3jm.3dj.py", line 33, in <module>
    main()
  File "/opt/siemplify/siemplify_server/bin/Scripting/PythonSDK/IntegrationsVirtualEnvironment/#/Automations_V24.0/ayhheqp2.u01/iwewa3jm.3dj.py", line 11, in main
    sm = SiemplifyAction()
  File "/opt/siemplify/siemplify_server/bin/Scripting/PythonSDK/SiemplifyAction.py", line 36, in __init__
    self.context_data = json.loads(raw_context_data.decode("utf-8-sig"))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/json/__init__.py", line 348, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

 I would appreciate it if anyone could help me to fix this.

[SoarAndy]

I don't know if SiemplifyAction is made available to Jobs

SiemplifyJob has many of the same calls

Maybe reapproach how you are designing the flow of the job

[SOAR_Engineer · Accepted solution]

You could utilize the API endpoint "/api/external/v1/ide/TestItem" to test actions from a job. Running a test manually will let you capture the request you need to send. You can also read the  "debugOutput" and response of the action.