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richie
Community Hero
6 years ago

Comparison of Two Property Values In Two Different Properties Steps

Hey,   I created a test a long time ago that always passed - essentially I had two REST requests and I wanted to compare an attribute value from each of these REST requests to confirm they were i...
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richie
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There are 2 REST requests and each of the 2 REST requests generate a GUID attribute in the response.

 

I needed to confirm the 2 values from each response were identical to each other and there's no OTB functionality to compare values from different responses.

 

I did a bit of research and the easiest way for a noncoder (me!) was to store the values in properties step and then have a subsequent groovy code snippet to actually do the comparison.

 

HOWEVER - the groovy comparison isn't/wasnt' working and I don't know why.

 

thanks,

 

richie

 

 

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nmrao
Champion Level 3
6 years ago
richie,
Sample of the messages along with what data needs to be compared would help to understand better.

It is very much possible to access both step data (either request or responses) directly from a Groovy Script step (assuming in the same test case) without even creating additional properties steps.
  • richie's avatar
    richie
    Community Hero
    6 years ago

    Hi nmrao

     

    I have attached a single test case ReadyAPI! project.xml  with the one test case in which includes the comparison groovy script I've been trying to use - I created some VIRTs for each of the requests on the project so you should be able to load the project file in, start the VIRTs and execute the test case to see the requests and response - but just to make it clear in case I have provided screenshots of the relevant steps below as well

    The test hierarchy is as follows:

     

     

    REST POST(login) - to get an authorization token for later use
Datasource (directory - sourcing a single file)
POST (creating a new record in endpoint)
GET (queries endpoint to confirm POST created record correctly)
Prop Transfer1 (grabs value from the GET)
Properties1 (stores value grabbed from GET)
GET2 (queries endpoint)
Prop Transfer2 (grabs another value from GET2 response)
Properties2 (stores value grabbed from GET2)
Groovy (compares values stored in separate Properties steps)

     

     

     

    This has been hanging over my head for a while - I found this approach to compare 2 discrete step responses via stackoverflow as it has minimal groovy - hence why I could really do with working out why this doesn't work properly.

     

    Essentially when I run the groovy script it returns a null for the fn;s

     

     

    Really, really appreciate any/all help anyone can provide - Im gonna need to use this step result comparison approach multiple times going forward, so I need to work out what I'm doing wrong!

     

    thanks so much to all,

     

    rich

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      nmrao
      Champion Level 3
      6 years ago

      richie ,

       

      (4) Steps could be reduced in the test case provided both response are available. Access the both responses of rest request steps, extract required values and compare them in a single groovy script.

       

      Any ways, below script does the comparison the way you wanted. 

      Please follow the comments provided in the script below:

      https://github.com/nmrao/soapUIGroovyScripts/blob/master/groovy/compare/ComparePropertiesValuesOfPropertySteps.groovy

       

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      nmrao
      Champion Level 3
      6 years ago
      Thanks you for the screen shots.
      • richie's avatar
        richie
        Community Hero
        6 years ago

        WOW! rao Rocks!

         

        given you as much Kudos as I can fella - thanks so much - you're script is way more complicated than mine - I never would've been able to put that together - thanks so much man!

         

        I have 1 more question based on the content of your script.  In your example you are comparing 2 properties from 2 different Properties steps.

         

        in the following line

         

        def map = ['id1' : 'id2', 'name': 'name']

        If I wanted to compare either more property values  (say 3 or more)  or say a single property value (like in my original script) - can you confirm the def map line in the code is the only place I'd need to edit if I wanted to to add or delete more property values for comparison?

         

        the comment in github in the code leads me to believe that - I just wanted to make sure I understand.

         

        Again - thanks so much - this has been annoying me for a while and will really help me out now I have a reusable method for comparison!

         

        nice one!

         

        rich