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nsinghal
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12 months ago

Compare API response key data against MySQL data using ReadyAPI GUI

Hi, I am exploring ReadyAPI tool for automating our API test cases. The API request returns a response containing multiple record sets. One of the requirement is to compare all the instance values of...
  • ChrisAdams's avatar
    12 months ago

    Hi,

    You do need script help for the assertion that Response and JDBC values match.

    As I cannot access your API or DB, I've mocked the responses.

    Here's my test case....

     

    The contents of 'Return XML' looks like...

    // Note : triple quotes allow multi-line strings.
    
    def xmlString = """<Response xmlns="https://xyz.com/abc">
       <content>
          <e>
             <cusip>003506BT8</cusip>
             <issueId>1714783</issueId>
             <issuerName>XYZ</issuerName>
             <issueDesc>ABC</issueDesc>
             <series>2020</series>
        </e>
          <e>
             <cusip>0035063DF8</cusip>
             <issueId>1714653</issueId>
             <issuerName>XFZ</issuerName>
             <issueDesc>ARC</issueDesc>
             <series>2030</series>
        </e>
        </content>
    </Response>"""
    
    return xmlString;

    And here's the "Return JDBC" contents...

    def jdbcString = """<Results>
       <ResultSet fetchSize="0">
          <Row rowNumber="1">
             <BOND.CUSIP>003506BT8</BOND.CUSIP>
          </Row>
          <Row rowNumber="2">
             <BOND.CUSIP>0035063DF8</BOND.CUSIP>
          </Row>
    </ResultSet>
    </Results>""";
    
    return jdbcString;
    

    And finally, the Groovy script that does the compare...

     import groovy.xml.XmlSlurper;  // This is required for turning our mock XML string into real traversable XML.
     
    // Mocking the response and JDBC call.
    def apiResponseAsXmlString = context.expand( '${Return XML - Groovy Script#result#declare namespace ns1=\'https://xyz.com/abc\'; //ns1:Response[1]}' );
    def jdbcResponseAsXMLString = context.expand( '${Return JDBC - Groovy Script#result#//Results[1]}' );
    
    // Let's convert our mock XML Strings into real XML.
    def apiResponseXML = new XmlSlurper().parseText(apiResponseAsXmlString);
    def jdbcResponseXML = new XmlSlurper().parseText(jdbcResponseAsXMLString);
    
    // Let's just check we're playing with XML from both sources.
    log.info(apiResponseXML.name());
    assert apiResponseXML.name() == 'Response';
    
    log.info( jdbcResponseXML.name());
    assert jdbcResponseXML.name() == 'Results';
    
    // Yep, if we've go this far, we're playing with XML.
    
    // Let's now compare CUSIP from both sources...
    // Firstly, let's just log CUSIP
    log.info("API Response - " + apiResponseXML.content.e[0].cusip.text());
    log.info("JDBC Response - " + jdbcResponseXML.ResultSet.Row[0].text());
    
    // Now to compare CUSIP.  Firstly, put the CUSIP value from repsonse and JDBC into VARs.  You don't have but makes it more readable.
    apiCUSIP = apiResponseXML.content.e[0].cusip.text();
    jdbcCUSIP = jdbcResponseXML.ResultSet.Row[0].text();
    
    assert apiCUSIP == jdbcCUSIP;
    
    // If the next line logs, we've successfully asserted!
    log.info ("API and JDBC CUSIP values match!");

    I'm not going to explain the script further, the comments in the script should be helpful enough.  If not, reply with your questions.