Cannot get property transfer to work

Although soapui does have a property transfer form that you can fill out, I prefer to do this in groovy, as I'm usually dooing things with the properties as well as transfering them, and groovy is best for that sort of thing. Anyways, here's how I would do it.

Create a custom property called name at either the test step/case/suite level (depending on the scope of this property). Here, I put the property in at the test suite level. Next in the response, put ${#TestSuite#name} between the name tags.

Then, create a groovy script, and drop this code in.

def groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils( context );
def holder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder( "YourRequestNameGoesHere#ResponseAsXml" );

def name = holder.getNodeValue(" //Response[1]/action[1]/name[1]/text()")

testRunner.testCase.testSuite.setPropertyValue("name",name)



That should be enough to do it. You just need to have the xpath (//Response[1]/action[1]/name[1]/text()) right, as it varies by response.

Or you can just put a property expansion directly in the second request step and forget extra properties or property transfers. Assuming your first request is called 'Request 1':

<anotherrequest>
<name>${Request 1#Response#//anyresponse[1]/theresponse[1]}</name>
</anotherrequest>

Thanks but it isn't working for me...I must be doing something wrong. I'll post the actual xml that I am using. Keep in mind this is just a silly testcase

Step 1 request named 'ConversionRate':
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:web="http://www.webserviceX.NET/">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<web:ConversionRate>
<web:FromCurrency>AWG</web:FromCurrency>
<web:ToCurrency>AUD</web:ToCurrency>
</web:ConversionRate>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Step 1 response:
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<ConversionRateResponse xmlns="http://www.webserviceX.NET/">
<ConversionRateResult>0.5444</ConversionRateResult>
</ConversionRateResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Step 2 request:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:web="http://www.webserviceX.NET/">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<web:ConversionRate>
<web:FromCurrency>${ConversionRate#Response#//ConversionRateResponse[1]/ConversionRateResult[1]}</web:FromCurrency>
<web:ToCurrency>?</web:ToCurrency>
</web:ConversionRate>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Note that the request that is generated has nothing between begin and end tags of <web:FromCurrency>. I would expect to see 0.5444. This request would ultimately fail... I am just trying to see if I can get the property expansion to work...

Thanks! That worked - had to change #Request to #Response but after that it worked. I appreciate it...