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turman
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago

Conversion from JSON to XML

Hi,

I'm using SoapUI 5.0 to do some non regression tests on REST/JSON services.

SoapUI can convert automatically JSON responses into XML responses. With that functionaly, I can perform some "XPath match" assertions on JSON response, that's great !

It works pretty well on my project but for an unknown reason, I have one service whose JSON response is not converted into XML :

The JSON is :
{
   "data":    [
            {
         "id": 1,
         "name": "Gluar1",
         "description": "",
         "type":          {
            "id": 1,
            "value": "Account Manager"
         }
      },
            {
         "id": 671,
         "name": "Gluar2",
         "description": "",
         "type":          {
            "id": 2,
            "value": "Product Manager"
         }
      }
   ],
   "metadata": {"errors": []}
}


With that JSON response the converted XML is :
<xml/>


Any one has an idea why conversion fails ?

For me it looks like a bug because the JSON looks normal...

Thanks for your help,

Vincent.
  • MarcusJ's avatar
    MarcusJ
    Moderator
    11 years ago
    Hi,

    Please check the error log tab in SoapUI. There must be an exception that was encountered when trying to convert the XML to JSON. The empty array [] could be what is causing the error.
  • turman's avatar
    turman
    Occasional Contributor
    11 years ago
    Hi Mr James,

    Thanks for your reponse.

    I don't think that the problem comes from the empty array because my other services have the same empty array and the XML conversion is working well (and a empty array is not illegal in JSON as far as I know).

    But the error log is talking about a double slash in path :
    Thu Jul 03 16:57:30 CEST 2014:ERROR:nu.xom.MalformedURIException: Double slash (//) in path
       nu.xom.MalformedURIException: Double slash (//) in path
        at nu.xom.Verifier.throwMalformedURIException(Verifier.java:161)
        at nu.xom.Verifier.checkPath(Verifier.java:396)
        at nu.xom.Verifier.checkAbsoluteURIReference(Verifier.java:907)
        at nu.xom.Element._setNamespaceURI(Element.java:869)
        at nu.xom.Element.setNamespaceURI(Element.java:852)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.rest.support.handlers.JsonXmlSerializer.processJSONObject(JsonXmlSerializer.java:1173)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.rest.support.handlers.JsonXmlSerializer.write(JsonXmlSerializer.java:735)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.rest.support.handlers.JsonXmlSerializer.write(JsonXmlSerializer.java:690)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.rest.support.handlers.JsonMediaTypeHandler.createXmlRepresentation(JsonMediaTypeHandler.java:69)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.submit.transports.http.BaseHttpResponse.getContentAsXml(BaseHttpResponse.java:462)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.rest.panels.request.inspectors.schema.InferredSchemaInspector.afterSubmit(InferredSchemaInspector.java:113)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlSubmit.run(WsdlSubmit.java:161)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
    Thu Jul 03 18:40:11 CEST 2014:ERROR:nu.xom.MalformedURIException: Double slash (//) in path
       nu.xom.MalformedURIException: Double slash (//) in path
        at nu.xom.Verifier.throwMalformedURIException(Verifier.java:161)
        at nu.xom.Verifier.checkPath(Verifier.java:396)
        at nu.xom.Verifier.checkAbsoluteURIReference(Verifier.java:907)
        at nu.xom.Element._setNamespaceURI(Element.java:869)
        at nu.xom.Element.setNamespaceURI(Element.java:852)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.rest.support.handlers.JsonXmlSerializer.processJSONObject(JsonXmlSerializer.java:1173)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.rest.support.handlers.JsonXmlSerializer.write(JsonXmlSerializer.java:735)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.rest.support.handlers.JsonXmlSerializer.write(JsonXmlSerializer.java:690)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.rest.support.handlers.JsonMediaTypeHandler.createXmlRepresentation(JsonMediaTypeHandler.java:69)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.submit.transports.http.BaseHttpResponse.getContentAsXml(BaseHttpResponse.java:462)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.teststeps.RestTestRequestStep.propertyChange(RestTestRequestStep.java:485)
        at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.fire(Unknown Source)
        at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(Unknown Source)
        at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(Unknown Source)
        at com.eviware.soapui.model.support.AbstractModelItem.notifyPropertyChanged(AbstractModelItem.java:90)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.support.AbstractHttpRequest.setResponse(AbstractHttpRequest.java:896)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.teststeps.RestTestRequest.setResponse(RestTestRequest.java:140)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.teststeps.RestTestRequestStep.run(RestTestRequestStep.java:927)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.AbstractTestCaseRunner.runTestStep(AbstractTestCaseRunner.java:239)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.testcase.WsdlTestCaseRunner.runCurrentTestStep(WsdlTestCaseRunner.java:52)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.AbstractTestCaseRunner.internalRun(AbstractTestCaseRunner.java:152)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.AbstractTestCaseRunner.internalRun(AbstractTestCaseRunner.java:47)
        at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.AbstractTestRunner.run(AbstractTestRunner.java:139)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


    Strange I don't see where a double slash could be there
  • turman's avatar
    turman
    Occasional Contributor
    11 years ago
    Ok I found the problem : my resource URL had a trailing slash. Without it the XML conversion is fine.

    Sorry to have blamed SoapUI !