howto property transfer between two HTTP requests

Ok, I can't believe no one else has not needed this feature?  Do I have to use a groovy script to extract and transfer the returned data?

So here's my solution in case someone else needs to do something similar.
Not saying this is the best way - I hope there's a much simpler way, if so please feel free to update this post ;-)


My first HTTP request returns the following;


  746223053
 
  0
  AAABIy4kyFzg69MSRQHUa4Mzy9vsxkzTKj29HCbg3AMpYj8QOvhuIqdMncTIlvQ8GC2Y07JaTFfdxq4oE9rs5A==


I want to extract the token string "AAA...." and feed it into subsequent HTTP/SOAP requests.

My test steps are ordered as follows;

Properties etc
...
SOAP Request
HTTP Request          <---  Returns a token
Groovy Script          <---  Extract the token string, and set a Property value.
Property Transfer    <---- Transfer the property to next HTTP request.
HTTP Request          <---- Uses token from previous request.
SOAP Requsts
...



The Groovy script used is as follows;

def groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils( context )
def httpResponse = context.testCase.testSteps["signOnByMACAddress"].testRequest.response.responseContent
def REGEX = /"token":"(.*)"/
def token = (httpResponse =~ REGEX)
groovyUtils.setPropertyValue("Properties", "Token", token[0][1])



cheers;

Hi,

Inside SoapUI installation there is a folder named Tutorials which includes some sample projects. TestCase called "Simple Login and Logout w. Properties Steps" does exactly what you need, if I understand you well.
Although you found solution yourself, you might want to check it out.
Regards,

/Dragica
eviware.com

Dragica,

All the test steps in the example(s) use SOAP requests.  The problem I had was when inserting a
property transfer step.  May be I was trying to use it incorrectly?

Test Steps:

HTTP_Request_1
Property Transfer
HTTP_Request_2

After inserting the Property Transfer step, I set the source as the first HTTP_Request_1, the Property to Response.  Then set the Target as HTTP_Request_2, Property to an arg value.

nothing gets transfered, selecting the "ns:" button reports "Property Source and Target Source is not a request" ...  ?  I think this behaviour is a feature that I don't understand.

what do you think?

Hi!

It sounds like you need to specify an XPath expression for the source property that selects the desired value from the response xml, in your case it would be

declare namespace ns='http://172.16.1.213/some/path/to/something';
//token

Does that help?

regards,

/Ole
eviware.com

Applogies for the delayed response,  unfortunately the suggestion to manually specify a namespace
did not work, I get the following error when I run the selected Property Transfer;

[error: Unexpected element: CDATA]

I have to confess, I have discovered an error, the details posted below suggests the data comes back
in XML format, it's actually JSON - I had been looking at the XML tab rather than JSON tab.

{
  "result": null,
  "requestId": 1707347729,
  "resultCode": "0",
  "token": "AAABI1b1xbnXMkaY6c2UH9w0B52hm6p2TElOII485z!iF3yRVq!DXIjF74!rNEIXvOgZZZNCoGM="
}

Does this make any difference?

Hi!

yes.. you need to set the source property to "ResponseAsXml", not "Response".. does that help?

regards!

/Ole
eviware.com

I've tried "ResponseAsXML" too, that returned :-

[null]


this is what I'm using;

declare namespace ns1='http://192.168.1.213:8180/path/to/Service;
//ns1:token


Is the above syntax correct?  I assume the namespace should be exactly the same URL
as that used to make the HTTP request?

The namespace should be same url used in the xmlns entry at the top of the xml, which is most often not the same as the url used to call the service.

/Nenad
http://eviware.com

Hello all,
I have similar issue and i've scratched my head to find a solution. Here is the scenario :

i have REST request which returns json content in my test case, and i need to make some assertions on the result. As i usually do in a SOAP response, i wrote some xpath assertions like the following :

declare namespace ns="http://localhost/mycontext/user"
//ns:Response/ns:userInfo/ns:address/ns:address

but the problem is that the namespace of the xml generated by "ResponseAsXML" depends on the url endpoint of the service i call. So if switch to another endpoint, all of the assertions on my test fail because all of the xpath points to nothing.

Do you guys have ideas how to work around this ? Is there a way to get rid of the namespace in the "ResponseAsXML" of a json response ?

Thanks in advance,

HR