Help grabbing contents of a specific node

Hi Tom,

You are trying to get the "contents" of the node? What do you mean by guid of ABC in your example?

yes, so i want to grab the guid where name = ABC, so in the example, i want to grab "11.0".


basically, i have a big list and i want to be able to grab the guid of a specific "name".


i'm using "property transfer" in Soap UI.

my "source" is the list. I want to then grab the guid for that specific name, and then transfer it to my "properties" test step and store the guid in a variable "myGUID".

Oh I now see what you are trying to do. You can grab the values of both guid and name. And if the value of name matches specific value say ABC, you can use it otherwise discard it. Below is an example of code:

def gutils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils (context);
def holder = gutils.getXmlHolder("YOUR_SOAP_TEST_STEP_NAME#Response");

def totalcount = holder["count(//node1/node2)"] ; 

// The above line will give you a total count of nodes which you need to read.

for (i in 1..Integer.parseInt(totalcount))
{
    def name1 = holder.getNodeValue("//node1/node2[i]/name") ;
    def guid1 = holder.getNodeValue("//node1/node2[i]/guid") ;
    if (name1 == "ABC")
    {
       // do something
    }

}

Let me know if this helps.

Regards,
Deepesh Jain

Thanks.

So, this can't be done without using that script?

Because in the following example:

<node1>
   <xyz name="ABC" description="description1324">
      <id>6</id>
    </xyz>
    <xyz name="DEF" description="description3943">
      <id>3</id>
    </xyz>

</node1>

i can grab ABC's "id" by using:

//node1/xyz[@name="ABC"]/id

so using "property transfer" in SOAPUI, it pulls that specific GUID for me, transfers it to my properties test step, and stores "3" in my "id" property.

i'm trying to use this functionality: http://www.soapui.org/Functional-Testin ... alues.html

I am not sure if that is possible or not, the reason you were able to do that other way is because the property name was associated with tag xyz. You basically provided the xpath of id by selecting the path which has name as ABC for an XYX tag.

Yeah, that's why I am having trouble...

The reason I'm using Property Transfer, is because I have a GET method and I want it to use the GUID from a previous test step as its resource path.

So, basically, I have a GET method to get the list of information. Say, under "endpoint/path".

Then, I have a GET method after to get info from a specific item from that list. So, I have to grab the guid from the previous step, and have the path for this step be "endpoint/path/{guid}".



I'm guessing from what you said, that I have to use the groovy script after my first method, and then take the guid of interest and somehow use it as the path for my 2nd method.

Can you point me in the right direction on how I can accomplish this?


I'm sorry if my questions don't make sense. I've only used SOAP UI for 2 weeks.

can I just return the guid1 in your example?

for (i in 1..Integer.parseInt(totalcount))
{
    def name1 = holder.getNodeValue("//node1/node2[i]/name") ;
    def guid1 = holder.getNodeValue("//node1/node2[i]/guid") ;
    if (name1 == "ABC")
    {
       return(guid1); 
    }
}

I tried but I'm getting "org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: error: Unexpected Element: CDATA"

Hi Tom,

Well return would work only if you put the code in a groovy function and then make a call to a function. What you can do is, put a groovy script step after your soap step and then a properties step after groovy. You can use groovy script inside if to populate the property of your choice with guid.

Regards,
Deepesh Jain

deepesh.jain wrote:
Hi Tom, Well return would work only if you put the code in a groovy function and then make a call to a function. What you can do is, put a groovy script step after your soap step and then a properties step after groovy. You can use groovy script inside if to populate the property of your choice with guid. Regards, Deepesh Jain

That's what I have set up.

1. Soap step. Get list of items.
2. Groovy script (the one you gave me). Find the GUID of interest.
3. Property Transfer. Take result of Groovy script and transfer to Properties file: GUID -> guid variable.
4. Soap step. Get information of the item with GUID I grabbed from step 2. Have path as "endpoint/path/{guid}". Set value "guid" as "${Properties_file#guid}"

My issue is that I don't know how to get the GUID of interest in step 2, into the properties file. I don't know how to "grab" the GUID using that groovy script. You said I can't return(guid1) there, so what do I do?

I see in the Property Transfer step that I can grab the "result" from "groovy script" and transfer it into the target (Property file, guid variable). I don't know how to grab "guid1" from your code and make it the "result" of the script.

You don't need the property transfer step. You only need directly a properties step or directly soap step.

You can use groovy step to populate the xml tag in soap step or property in properties step.

This is how you can do it assuming your second SOAP step is named as SOAP_2:

// say in your groovy step you have guid stored in [b]sourceGuid[/b].
def gUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils( context );
def holder = gUtils.getXmlHolder("SOAP_2#Request");
holder.setNodeValue("YOUR_XPATH_HERE",sourceGuid);
holder.updateProperty(); 

Regards,
Deepesh Jain