Hello.in the following example, I would like to grab the guid of "ABC". can somebody tell me how to do it?<node1> <node2> <guid>11.0</guid> <name>ABC</name> <description>ABCdescription</description> </node2> <node2> <guid>12.0</guid> <name>DEF</name> <description>DEFdescription</description> </node2></node1>the following does not work://node1/node2[@name="ABC"]/guid//node1/node2/[@name="ABC"]/guid//node1/node2/name[@name="ABC"]/guidCan anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks.

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"]/idso 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.

Help grabbing contents of a specific node

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ThomasAu

Contributor

15 years ago

deepesh.jain wrote:
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

deepesh.jain wrote:
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

Or, in your old example, can I put the guid directly into my properties file using groovy?


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")
    {
       //insert value of guid1 into #property_file#${guid}  (i don't know the syntax, can you help me?)    
    }
}

klitchev
Occasional Contributor
15 years ago
You can do the following:

//node2/name[text()="ABC"]/../guid

Just put this in the XPath box for the Source of the property transfer. And don't forget to select the Source step and Property: Response

ThomasAu

Contributor

15 years ago

klitchev wrote:
You can do the following:
//node2/name[text()="ABC"]/../guid
Just put this in the XPath box for the Source of the property transfer. And don't forget to select the Source step and Property: Response

klitchev wrote:
You can do the following: //node2/name[text()="ABC"]/../guid Just put this in the XPath box for the Source of the property transfer. And don't forget to select the Source step and Property: Response

Wow, thank you so much. It was the "/../" that did it.

Deepesh, thanks a lot for your help too. I learned a lot about groovy thanks to you. However, this was originally what I was looking for.

deepesh_jain
Frequent Contributor
15 years ago
Cool. Glad, I could help.

ThomasAu

Contributor

15 years ago

klitchev wrote:
You can do the following:
//node2/name[text()="ABC"]/../guid
Just put this in the XPath box for the Source of the property transfer. And don't forget to select the Source step and Property: Response

klitchev wrote:
You can do the following: //node2/name[text()="ABC"]/../guid Just put this in the XPath box for the Source of the property transfer. And don't forget to select the Source step and Property: Response

Hi Klitchev,

Can you tell me if it's possible to do this while using the following to ignore namespaces?

The XML changed and now I have a //Response namespace so I'm trying to ignore it by using:

//*[local-name()='node2']/*[local-name()='name'][text()="ABC"]/../*[local-name()='guid']

So far that is not working and it may be do to syntax? I'm not sure.

Thanks

ThomasAu

Contributor

15 years ago

This is not working either:

//*[local-name()='node2']/*[local-name()='name' and text()="ABC"]/../*[local-name()='guid']

ThomasAu
Contributor
15 years ago
The previous solution worked.

My problem was that the response that came back was a conversion from JSON.

So I realized i did not change "Response" drop down to "ResponseAsXML".

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