Accessing project properties from TestRunner

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Hi,&nbsp;I have hit a problem with test runner.&nbsp;I have a project, and this has a set of project custom properties, such as "dtToday" which se set to today's date.&nbsp;I also have some tests, which expand and use dtToday in their requests, e.g.&lt;sch:TargetDepartureTime&gt;${=project.getPropertyValue("dtNextWeekDayMidday")}&lt;/sch:TargetDepartureTime&gt;or&lt;sch:TargetDepartureTime&gt;${#Project#dtToday}&lt;/sch:TargetDepartureTime&gt;&nbsp;Now here's where it gets weird.&nbsp;If I run the tests from within ReadyApi, the tests all run, and the project variables are used in the requests.&nbsp; Great. :manhappy:&nbsp;BUT...&nbsp;If I right-click on the project, and select &lt;Launch TestRunner&gt; then the tests are run, but the project variables aren't accessed / used.&nbsp; This naturally causes the requests to fail.&nbsp; Not great.&nbsp; :mansad:&nbsp;Is there something I need to do, to tell TestRunner to use these project variables?(ReadyApi 1.2.2, Win7).&nbsp;Any help gratefully received!&nbsp;Thanks&nbsp;John.

jgimber · Answer

Additional info:&nbsp;The code segment I have is this:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // Get (today)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;log.info "Today = " + context.expand('${#Project#dtToday}')&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;log.info "Today context = " + context.testCase.testSuite.project.getPropertyValue("dtToday")&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;log.info "Today testrunner = " + testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.getPropertyValue( "dtToday" )&nbsp;and when I run this from within ReadyApi, I get this output:&nbsp;Mon Mar 09 14:46:52 GMT 2015:INFO:Today = 2015-03-09Mon Mar 09 14:46:52 GMT 2015:INFO:Today context = 2015-03-09Mon Mar 09 14:46:52 GMT 2015:INFO:Today testrunner = 2015-03-09but when I run it from TestRunner, I get this:&nbsp;14:49:24,123 INFO&nbsp; [log] Today =14:49:24,164 INFO&nbsp; [log] Today context =14:49:24,169 INFO&nbsp; [log] Today testrunner =&nbsp;Hope that clarifies things a bit more...

nmrao · Answer

I got 1.0.0, where it is showing log details correctly for the mentioned case using launch TestRunner.

Would it be possible to share your log when launched with TestRunner? Do you see anything in soapui.log, soapui-error.log, script.log files?

jgimber · Answer

Hi RaoI'm running ReadyAPI 1.2.2Here's the log from running the script:Running Ready! API TestRunner for [TestProject LTS (TestProject DATA)]
directory: C:\Program Files\SmartBear\ReadyAPI-1.2.2\bin\.
command: cmd.exe /C testrunner.bat -sSetup -r -a -j -f"S:\TestProject SoapUI Reports" -E"Internal Dev" -o -R"JUnit-Style HTML Report" "S:\Work\TestProject LTS\SoapUI - TestProject Data\TestProject-LTS-soapui-project.xml"
log4j:ERROR No appender named [CONSOLE] could be found.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (com.netflix.governator.lifecycle.ClasspathScanner).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.
Configuring log4j from [C:\Program Files\SmartBear\ReadyAPI-1.2.2\bin\soapui-log4j.xml]
09:33:57,228 INFO  [DefaultSoapUICore] initialized soapui-settings from [C:\Users\jgimber\soapui-settings.xml]
09:33:57,355 INFO  [SoapUIProGroovyScriptEngineFactory] Setting Script Library to [S:\GroovyLib]
09:33:57,356 INFO  [DefaultSoapUICore] Adding listeners from [C:\Program Files\SmartBear\ReadyAPI-1.2.2\bin\listeners\demo-listeners.xml]
09:33:57,977 INFO  [PluginManager] 0 plugins loaded in 1 ms
09:33:57,977 INFO  [DefaultSoapUICore] All plugins loaded
09:33:58,390 INFO  [WsdlProject] Loaded project from [file:/S:/Work/TestProject%20LTS/SoapUI%20-%20TestProject%20Data/TestProject-LTS-soapui-project.xml]
09:33:58,493 INFO  [SoapUIProGroovyScriptEngineFactory] Setting Script Library to [S:\GroovyLib]
09:33:59,030 INFO  [SoapUIProTestCaseRunner] Running tests in project [TestProject LTS (TestProject DATA)]
09:33:59,059 INFO  [SoapUIProTestCaseRunner] Running TestSuite [Setup], runType = SEQUENTIAL
09:33:59,066 INFO  [SoapUIProTestCaseRunner] Running TestCase [Project Setup]
09:33:59,081 INFO  [SoapUIProTestCaseRunner] running step [Copy of Setup Script]
09:33:59,355 INFO  [log] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
09:33:59,355 INFO  [log] TEST SETUP 2
09:33:59,355 INFO  [log] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
09:33:59,366 INFO  [log] Today =
09:33:59,408 INFO  [log] Today context =
09:33:59,413 INFO  [log] Today testrunner =
09:33:59,413 INFO  [log] Tomorrow =
09:33:59,413 INFO  [log] Next Weekday =
09:33:59,413 INFO  [log] Next Saturday =
09:33:59,414 INFO  [log] Next Sunday =
09:33:59,414 INFO  [log] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
09:33:59,414 INFO  [log] TEST SETUP COMPLETED
09:33:59,414 INFO  [log] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
09:33:59,418 INFO  [SoapUIProTestCaseRunner] Finished running TestCase [Project Setup], time taken: 330ms, status: FINISHED
09:33:59,421 INFO  [SoapUIProTestCaseRunner] TestSuite [Setup] finished with status [FINISHED] in 359ms

09:33:59,792 INFO  [SoapUIProTestCaseRunner] Created report [JUnit-Style HTML Report] to path [file:/S:/TestProject%20SoapUI%20Reports/Setup/index.html]

Ready! API 1.2.2 TestCaseRunner Summary
-----------------------------
Time Taken: 777ms
Total TestSuites: 1
Total TestCases: 1 (0 failed)
Total TestSteps: 1
Total Request Assertions: 0
Total Failed Assertions: 0
Total Exported Results: 1

09:33:59,880 INFO  [SoapUIProTestCaseRunner] Created report at file:/S:/TestProject%20SoapUI%20Reports/index.html&nbsp;

nmrao · Answer

Below is the result when tried on 1.2.2, so no issue observed:
&nbsp;
23:34:51,800 INFO  [SoapUIProTestCaseRunner] Running TestCase [TestCase 1]
23:34:51,800 INFO  [SoapUIProTestCaseRunner] running step [Groovy Script]
23:34:51,901 INFO  [log] Today = 2015-03-09
23:34:51,939 INFO  [log] Today context = 2015-03-09
23:34:51,940 INFO  [log] Today testrunner = 2015-03-09
&nbsp;

jgimber · Answer

Hi Rao,&nbsp;This is proving most interesting.&nbsp;I assert that there is an issue.You assert that there is not.&nbsp;Is it possible that there are some project settings that are causing this, or some environment settings?&nbsp;I have attached the project file that I am using, so that you can try this out.&nbsp;This project file contains 2 groovy scripts.&nbsp;"Setup Script (Just Reading)"This can be run from within ReadyApi, and it will return the project's custom properties.However, if you run this script using TestRunner (from within ReadyApi), then the script runs again, but the behaviour is different - it will not access the project's custom properties.&nbsp;&nbsp;The other script (which is disabled) is "Setup Script (Write, Then Read)"If you run that from TestRunner, you will see that it writes the project custom properties first.Then, the other script runs, and that WILL then be able to read the (written) project custom properties.Can you take a look at this, and try to duplicate it?&nbsp;If you can duplicate it - great.&nbsp; If you can't then it is an environment issue or something, which will be interesting to identify.&nbsp;Thanks&nbsp;John.&nbsp;P.S. Can't see how to attach files on here, so here's a link to the file on my own site:http://www.qualityscape.co.uk/f/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=11.0;attach=1

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