XPath Assertion Giving Error

What is the exact assertion you are trying to test?

/Nenad
http://eviware.com

Sorry for the delay...was away for the week.

declare namespace ns2='http://url1';
declare namespace ns3='http://url2';
//ns2:return/ns3:channelStatus

When I click on the "Select from current" button to get the expected result, I get the error message: "More then one match in current response"

If I test it after providing the expected XML return, I get the following error:
"XPathContains comparison failed, expecting [EMAILjohnsons@yahoo.com 0000000000 EMAILjohnsons@yahoo.com 0000000000 ], actual was []"

If I run SoapUI using XML for one email address, it works correctly.  Here is the XML I input:


 

 
     
       
            LicenseID
            1
           
              EMAIL
              johnsons@yahoo.com
                           
       
     
 


I expect the following return on the XPath assertion:


 
    EMAIL
   
    johnsons@yahoo.com
 
  0
 
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
 


If I use two email addresses with the following XML:


 

 
     
       
            LicenseID
            1
           
              EMAIL
              johnsons@yahoo.com
           
           
              EMAIL
              johnsons@yahoo.com
                             
       
     
 


I would expect the following return:


 
    EMAIL
   
    johnsons@yahoo.com
 
  0
 
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
 


 
    EMAIL
   
    johnsons@yahoo.com
 
  0
 
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
 

Shamelessly going to bump this up as I've yet to come up with a solution for this...

Do you get the error in the assertion, or just when trying to execute the XPath?

Are you getting the expected response from the request, but the XPath query is failing on it?

Thanks for the response!

I get the error when I save the XPath Match Configuration screen, when I "test" using the test button, and when I run the request.

The response I am getting back from the request is correct, but the XPath query is failing.

Hi!

problem is that the xpath-assertion engine needs a valid xml-document for comparison, and a selection of nodes is not.. ie

...
..

is missing a root element.. (this is why it works with only one node)

You'll need to use an XQuery assertion instead that does the same select but surrounds it with a root element..

Hope this helps!

regards,

/Ole
eviware.com

Thank you for your continue help in trying to get through this problem.  However, I am still getting the same error with XQuery.  Clicking the "Select from Current" button returns an error saying more then one one match in current response.  Clicking the "test" button returns the following error:

"XQuery Match Assertion failed for path [declare namespace ns2='http://url1/certify'; declare namespace ns3='http://url2/xsd'; //ns2:return/ns3:channelStatus] : ComparisonFailure:null expected:[]> but was:[   EMAIL   johnsons1@yahoo.com    0   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0     ]>"

I am certainly expecting more then one response...that's the entire point here.  If I do one email address it works just fine.  Using the same XQuery in another editor returns all the values I would expect.  Only in SoapUI am I experiencing an issue.  Any thoughts?!

Have you thought about taking a different approach entirely?

When I have multiple elements coming back I often rely on a count of the elements instead of the exact contents of the elements.  This helps shield my assertions from small changes in the underlying response while still giving me confidence that the service is still working.

For example I use the following xpath -> count(//errors/error) with an Expect Result of '52'.  This way I don't need to change the assertion when the text of an changes. 

Maybe it would help if you counted the e-mail addresses instead?

I hope this helps.

Thank you for the suggestion.  The problem here is that each email address returned is going to give different data...this is a detailed certification assessment.  I know what data each email address will return.  I have receive no errors doing one at a time...but this is very time consuming and doing it in bulk is a much quicker way as in the end I will have several thousand to run through.  My last resort will be to create an individual test step for each email address...time consuming but will work if nothing else.

So if you know each e-mail address that is being returned then you should know how many right?  It sounds like you do, but you really want to check the exact pieces of data, and not just the count.  I guess you must be more detailed than I am ;-)

If that is the case, you could try concatenating each of the text nodes together and making your Expected Result a string with all of the data across all of the nodes.  This will only work if you know exactly how many things are coming back.  For example, if you know that there are going to be 3 nodes in your result you could try something like this...

concat(//ns2:return/ns3:channelStatus[1], //ns2:return/ns3:channelStatus[2], //ns2:return/ns3:channelStatus[3])

Again, this might not be a perfect solution...I'm just learning XPath myself, but maybe it is close enough to get you through this?