case-fields cannot be updated from some reports

[Kodai26]

Hi
I am currently using testRail to track automation test results such as unit test execution using trcli with code first workflow.
While uploading test result, I want to add custom-fields and result-fields for automated tests.
I notice that some reports can add both custom-fields and result-fields successfully but some of them only have result-fields.
Initially, I suspected wrong field name and field access settings for project but it was not the case.
At second, I suspected wrong junit report format because successful one using Junit5 report xml format while failed one using Junit4 report xml fromat. So I converted junit4 report xml format to junit5 xml report format using xml formatting tool like xsltproc. As a result, I think I got identical structure to the successful report but it was same as failed one, only result-fields.
I am currently thinking junit parse on trcli maybe the cause but not entirely sure.
Do you have any thought on this?

Junit xml report format for successful update with case-fields and result-fields

<testsuites
  id=""
  name=""
  tests="3"
  failures="0"
  skipped="3"
  errors="0"
  time="time"
>
  <testsuite
    name="dummy"
    timestamp="timeStamp"
    hostname="hostname"
    tests="0"
    failures="0"
    skipped="0"
    time="1"
    errors="0"
  >
    <testcase
      name="dummy test"
      classname="path"
      time="time"
    >
      <skipped> </skipped>
    </testcase>
  </testsuite>
</testsuites>

Junit xml report format for failed update with case-fields but not result-fields

<testsuite
  name="rspec"
  tests="49"
  skipped="0"
  failures="0"
  errors="0"
  time="time"
  timestamp="timeStamp"
  hostname="hostname"
>
  <properties>
    <property name="name" value="value" />
  </properties>
  <testcase
    classname="className"
    name="name"
    file="filePath"
    time="time"
  />
</testsuite>

Converted xml report format using xsltproc

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<testsuites id="" name="rspec" tests="49" failures="0" skipped="0" errors="0" time="227.639014">
<testsuite name="rspec" timestamp="xxxx" hostname="xxx" tests="49" failures="0" skipped="0" time="227.639014" errors="0">
<testcase name="xxxxx" classname="xxxxx" time="10.424436">
<skipped> </skipped>
</testcase>
</testsuite>
</testsuites>

custom-fields information

• Automation Candidate (automation_type): Number
• Automation Status (automation_status): Number
• Test level (test_level_for_analysis): Number

result-fields information

• is_automated (is_automated): Number

trcli command I used

trcli -y \
    -h hostname \
    --project "xxxx" \
    --username MyUsername \
    --password MyPassword \
    parse_junit \
    --title "sample test" \
    --case-fields "custom_automation_type:1" \
    --case-fields "custom_automation_status:1" \
    --result-fields "custom_test_level_for_analysis:1" \
    --result-fields "custom_is_automated:1" \
    -f "filePath"

[acuanico-tr-galt]

Hi @Kodai26 Your original JUnit4 XML had , and during transformation to JUnit5 format using xsltproc, those likely stayed only under instead of being moved to each . TR CLI only processes if they are inside individual elements.

Other suggestions:

• Confirm your trcli version is latest
• Try reducing your converted report to just one testcase with and proper properties to test parsing behavior.
• You can also try running trcli with --v to see how it’s interpreting the XML.

If this still causes problems, please raise an issue with the sample file and steps to replicate.
Thank you.