Can you use an XML file (or perhaps Mock Test Response) as a giant assert?

Hello,

Sure, maybe as simple contains or to use script assertion to load it and than compare it. Check : http://www.soapui.org/userguide/functio ... tions.html

Let me know does it helps,
robert

Well, I was actually hoping for something like a diff on the two files (expected xml result file and the actual result,) not a substring search of the "Simple Contains" assertion or a number of complex "XPath Match" assertion, because there are is a large number of elements returned by our service.

You can't really produce a diff because the comparison for an XQuery or Xpath would be the entire expression that you supplied.  I have written something in groovy that may be useful for you though which does a tree-node as well as node-value comparison and allows for exceptions (i.e. timestamps in the response)  on a static XML file vs. dynamic response from the service.

Email me if you're interested.

texaggie95@yahoo.com

Sean

Here's a snippet:
      // If a node with kids is found, recursively process them by increasing the node depth.
      if(kids[x].children().size() > 0)
      {
        if(isIncludeNode( nodeMapExceptions, kids, x) )
        {
          data = xpath+" Node: "+kids[x].name()+" Value: *";
          list[ListIndex].add(data);
          //log.info(data);
          //log.info(list[ListIndex].size());
          iteratenode(kids[x],++depth,list,list.size(),xpath+"/"+kids[x].name());
          depth--;
        }
      }
      // If no kids, just record the data.
      else
      {
      // We'll exclude our exceptions here as long as they match the key value pairing we assigned
      //  These are FULL exceptions
        if(!(nodeMapExceptions.get(kids[x].name()) == kids[x].text().trim() ) && !(nodeMapExceptions.get(kids[x].name()) == "*" ) )
        {
          data = xpath+" Node: "+kids[x].name()+" Value: ";
          // These are VALUE exceptions