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richie
Community Hero
8 years ago

Extract SOAP XML attribute value from datafile to provide JDBC request with query filter value

Hi,   Its been years since I used SoapUI Pro (I was never that good with it to begin with) and I'm now using ReadyAPI! v1.9.0 and I'm struggling.   I have 80 test data files (XML) which will be u...
  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    8 years ago
    richie,
    Ok. Thank you for the clarification. Once you lost the touch with programming, difficult to remember suddenly unless one keeps practise it daily life. Of course, you should restart again, will be able to grasp it quickly.

    Anyways, looks already Radford replied to your point to get the requested info in his solution. Please try that one.
richie's avatar
richie
Community Hero

Hey Rao,

 

You're doing me the favour so more than happy to supply anything you need!  

please see below - the XML contained within my test data file is as below:

 

<RecordInput xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="file:///D:/Folder/CSMRecord_v1_0_0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<RecordProfile RecordID="D8765" RequestedDateTime="20170412163030999">
<RecordName>Record NAME 20 CHARSS</RecordName>
<LocationName>LOCATION NAME OF Record 30 CHAR</LocationName>
<BuildingName>LOCATION NAME OF Record 30 CHAR</BuildingName>
<InternalLocation>XINTERNAL LOCATION WITH A LARGE 50 CHARACTER LIMIT</InternalLocation>
<ExternalLocation>XEXTERNAL LOCATION WITH A LARGE 50 CHARACTER LIMIT</ExternalLocation>
<Address Type="V">
<CompanyName>C NAME NOT FOR Record</CompanyName>
<Line>30 CHARACTER 1ST LINE -ADDRESS</Line>
<Line>30 CHARACTER 2ND LINE -ADDRESS</Line>
<Line>30 CHARACTER 3RD LINE -ADDRESS</Line>
<Line>30 CHARACTER 4TH LINE -ADDRESS</Line>
<Postcode>AB10 1XG</Postcode>
<Latitude>57.14416516</Latitude>
<Longitude>-2.114847768</Longitude>
</Address>
<Telno>07581455199</Telno>
<MaxBedNo>99</MaxBedNo>
<NGArea>NJ</NGArea>
<InUse>Y</InUse>
<RegionCode>RC</RegionCode>
<FixSite>N</FixSite>
<SectorCode>SC</SectorCode>
</RecordProfile>
</RecordInput>

 

The Soap request I am trying to post to the web service is as follows:

 

 

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:urn="urn:CSMRecordServicesIntf-ICSMRecordServices">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <urn:Venue soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
         <i_RecordXML xsi:type="xsd:string">${DataSource#FileContent}</i_RecordXML>
         <i_Database xsi:type="xsd:string">?</i_Database>
         <i_UserID xsi:type="xsd:string">?</i_UserID>
      </urn:Venue>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

As you can see - I've created a FileContent property in the Datasource step which I intend to populate the i_RecordXML tag in the post to the web service.

 

I think I've given you too much background - anyway.....the original point which I'm stuck on is that I want to scrape the content of the XML (in the datafile) for the RecordID attribute value current as 'D8765' in my XML datafile and then use this as the query in a where clause (select * from table where RecordID='D8765';) in a subsequent JDBC step (essentially I need to query the database once the post to the webservice to confirm if the database has been updated with the new record.

 

Thanks again for all/any guidance/advice etc. - I apologise if I've supplied too much info - I just want to make it nice and clear!

 

Cheers!

 

richie

nmrao's avatar
nmrao
Champion Level 3
8 years ago
Thank you for the details. So, in essence do you need to know how to extract the value of RecordID?
  • richie's avatar
    richie
    Community Hero
    8 years ago

    Yes!

     

    Sorry - I do get quite wordy don't i? :)

     

    My request to the webservice (if successful) should result in a new row being added to the database.  So after submitting the post request, essentially I need to extract the value of the RecordID attribute from the source data file and pass it to the JDBC Step where I will just have a simple query (select * from table where RecordID='RecordID value sourced from datafile';) to verify the row being added to the database.

     

    So I was thinking my object hierarchy in my test case would be something like the following:

     

    Datasource (specifying directory to source test data XML files from, Property= FileContent)

    SOAP request (posts to web service - body of Soap request is the content of the test data XML files via the ${DataSource#FileContent})

    Property Transfer (to pull RecordID from XML file in directory)

    JDBC Step (select * from table where RecordID='value in testdata XML file')

     

    I feel like I should apologise - I was a Java coder 15 years ago, but I've been testing since and I just cant remember anything to do with code anymore and this was why I got the licensed/Pro version of SoapUI so I wouldn't have to rely on groovy scripting!

     

    Thanks again for any and all help!

    • richie's avatar
      richie
      Community Hero
      8 years ago

      Sorry - I've read all that an thought I'd re-emphasise my problem.

       

      I need to source the RecordID attribute value from the XML datafile and then pass that value to the JDBC step to query the database after I've posted to the web service.

       

      I hope I have been clear.

       

      Thanks again - I really appreciate all help you are giving me!

       

      richie

      • Radford's avatar
        Radford
        Super Contributor
        8 years ago

        A couple of points:

         

        Firstly, I've updated my code to demo with your XML:

         

        import groovy.util.XmlSlurper

// Get XML from data source property, you MUST update the line below to point to your datasource property.
// def xmlText = context.expand( '${DataSource#contents}' )

//Example XML just to demo XmlSlurper
def xmlText = '''<RecordInput xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="file:///D:/Folder/CSMRecord_v1_0_0.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
	<RecordProfile RecordID="D8765" RequestedDateTime="20170412163030999">
		<RecordName>Record NAME 20 CHARSS</RecordName>
		<LocationName>LOCATION NAME OF Record 30 CHAR</LocationName>
		<BuildingName>LOCATION NAME OF Record 30 CHAR</BuildingName>
		<InternalLocation>XINTERNAL LOCATION WITH A LARGE 50 CHARACTER LIMIT</InternalLocation>
		<ExternalLocation>XEXTERNAL LOCATION WITH A LARGE 50 CHARACTER LIMIT</ExternalLocation>
		<Address Type="V">
			<CompanyName>C NAME NOT FOR Record</CompanyName>
			<Line>30 CHARACTER 1ST LINE -ADDRESS</Line>
			<Line>30 CHARACTER 2ND LINE -ADDRESS</Line>
			<Line>30 CHARACTER 3RD LINE -ADDRESS</Line>
			<Line>30 CHARACTER 4TH LINE -ADDRESS</Line>
			<Postcode>AB10 1XG</Postcode>
			<Latitude>57.14416516</Latitude>
			<Longitude>-2.114847768</Longitude>
		</Address>
		<Telno>07581455199</Telno>
		<MaxBedNo>99</MaxBedNo>
		<NGArea>NJ</NGArea>
		<InUse>Y</InUse>
		<RegionCode>RC</RegionCode>
		<FixSite>N</FixSite>
		<SectorCode>SC</SectorCode>
	</RecordProfile>
</RecordInput>'''

def RecordInput = new XmlSlurper().parseText(xmlText)

log.info(RecordInput.RecordProfile.@RecordID)

         

        Secondly, the the "org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; Premature end of file" error is probably because you did not update the line:

         

        def xmlText = context.expand( '${DataSource#contents}' )

         

         

        to point to your actual datasource property. If you are unsure of the exact syntax to use, look and the point and click GetData functionality.

         

         

    • nmrao's avatar
      nmrao
      Champion Level 3
      8 years ago
      richie,
      Ok. Thank you for the clarification. Once you lost the touch with programming, difficult to remember suddenly unless one keeps practise it daily life. Of course, you should restart again, will be able to grasp it quickly.

      Anyways, looks already Radford replied to your point to get the requested info in his solution. Please try that one.
      • richie's avatar
        richie
        Community Hero
        8 years ago

        Much thanks to go to nmrao & Radford for holding my hand until I sorted the problem.

         

        I still haven't identified why it wasn't working other than copying and pasting the datasource details into the groovyscript didn't appear to pickup the Datasource's propertyname - I had to use GetData context menu before it would recognise my '${DataSource#FileContents}' property for some reason.

         

        Anyway - success! so thanks again!