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abhishek813
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11 years ago

asserting special characters

Hi Guys,

I have weird problem.

I have a test case where i have to check that the data in one of the nodes is same as in the db the node is repeated multiple times hence i cannot use a normal test step assertion.

The problem is the the value is going to have special characters and for whatever reason the assert keeps failing.

The string to be searched is AA123 `~!@#$%^&*()-_=+ [{]}\|;:'",<.>/ ?

These are the steps i am doing

1. Loop for all the node values in the db
2. Initialize a variable i = 1
3. using the xpath extract the ith value from the xml
4. assert that the value in the db and in the xml match
5. give a sensible if the assert files.

Note: the data in the db is stored as AA123 `~!@#$%^&*()-_=+ [{]}\|;:'",<.>/ ? and the xml has the value i mentioned earlier.

For security reasons i cannot give the actual response.

Let me know you if anyone has ideas to resolve this.

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  • abhishek813's avatar
    abhishek813
    Frequent Contributor
    11 years ago
    I need to do this on the OS version, do you have any suggestion for that?
  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    11 years ago
    Could you provide the code that you are trying with?

    Joel Jonsson
    SmartBear Sweden
  • abhishek813's avatar
    abhishek813
    Frequent Contributor
    11 years ago
    Hi Joel,

    I was trying to use StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml() and StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml()

    -Abhishek
  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    11 years ago
    Hi again!

    Sorry, but could you provide the full content of the Groovy Script assertion (feel free to replace sensitive data with dummy data) so we can get a total understanding of what's going on here?

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    Regards

    Erik
    SmartBear Sweden
  • abhishek813's avatar
    abhishek813
    Frequent Contributor
    11 years ago
    The response xml contains customer name as Abhishek &amp; Asthana

    I need to extract this value and compare it against what is in the datasheet. The datasheet has the value Abhishek & Asthana in the data sheet.

    I tried using the below code to unescape the string but the keyword was not recognized.


    StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(//response/*:firstChildNode/*:secondChildNode/*:customerName)

    XPathContains assertion failed for path [StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(//response/*:firstChildNode/*:secondChildNode/*:customerName)] : RuntimeException:net.sf.saxon.trans.XPathException: XPath syntax error at char 105 in {...dChildNode/*:customerName}:
    Unknown system function StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml()
  • abhishek813's avatar
    abhishek813
    Frequent Contributor
    11 years ago
    I solved this problem by using script assertion, see code below

    def groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils( context )

    def responseHolder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder( messageExchange.responseContent )

    def custName = responseHolder.getNodeValue("//response/*:firstChildNode/*:secondChildNode/*:customerName")

    assert custName.equalsIgnoreCase(org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(context.expand('${#TestSuite#XXXXX}')))


    Is there a way to do this using xpath assertion?