How to create REST project using Groovy script?

Hi,

I managed to get a chance to work a little on what we discussed... here is my first quick shot and results, please let me know what you think:

Create a Groovy script with the following content (note if you do this in Eclipse, you'll need to reference all the SoapUI libs):

import com.eviware.soapui.impl.actions.RestServiceBuilder

import com.eviware.soapui.impl.rest.RestRequest

import com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlProject

import com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlSubmitContext

import com.eviware.soapui.model.iface.Response

import com.eviware.soapui.model.iface.Submit

def uri = "http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1"

WsdlProject project = new WsdlProject()

RestServiceBuilder serviceBuilder = new RestServiceBuilder()

serviceBuilder.createRestService(project, uri)

println "service name: "+project.getInterfaceList()[0].name

println "Resource: "+project.getInterfaceList()[0].getOperationList()[0]

RestRequest request = project.getInterfaceList()[0].getOperationList()[0].getRequestList()[0]

Submit submit = (Submit) request.submit( new WsdlSubmitContext(), false );

Response response = submit.getResponse();

String responseContent = response.getContentAsString();

println( responseContent );

Running this gives:

2015-05-15 14:01:13,769 [main] WARN  com.eviware.soapui.SoapUI - Could not find jfxrt.jar. Internal browser will be disabled.

14:01:14,606 WARN  [SoapUI] Missing folder [/Users/bearsoftware/Documents/workspace-sts-soapui-testarea/TestSoapUIScripts/ext] for external libraries

14:01:15,565 INFO  [DefaultSoapUICore] initialized soapui-settings from [/Users/bearsoftware/soapui-settings.xml]

14:01:15,755 INFO  [HttpClientSupport$Helper] Initializing KeyStore

service name: http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com

Resource: RestResource: /posts/1

14:01:19,242 DEBUG [HttpClientSupport$SoapUIHttpClient] Attempt 1 to execute request

14:01:19,242 DEBUG [SoapUIMultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager$SoapUIDefaultClientConnection] Sending request: GET /posts/1 HTTP/1.1

14:01:19,635 DEBUG [SoapUIMultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager$SoapUIDefaultClientConnection] Receiving response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK

14:01:19,640 DEBUG [HttpClientSupport$SoapUIHttpClient] Connection can be kept alive indefinitely

{

  "userId": 1,

  "id": 1,

  "title": "sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit",

  "body": "quia et suscipit\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et **bleep**\nreprehenderit molestiae ut ut quas totam\nnostrum rerum est autem sunt rem eveniet architecto"

}

14:01:51,851 DEBUG [SoapUIMultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager$SoapUIDefaultClientConnection] Connection closed

The script:

1. Creates a new REST Project based on the highlighted URI (a public test REST API)
2. A GET request to the resource /posts/1 is automatically created.
3. The request is dispatched and the response JSON content printed out.

When creating the project on-the-fly like this there is no need to persist anything or use a TestRunner script - is this allong the lines you need? 

Cheers,

Rup