nmrao
So, I already did go through these. I already watched the video you link as well. Thank you. The video you mention is something about TestComplete. I'm running these tests in SoapUI Pro. I don't have TestComplete. I'm not entirely sure why you think the testcomplete video does anything to describe how to map to a REST XML payload. The other video I found at least has the basics and infers that you can map to the payload, but the tutorial and concepts page do nothing to describe how to map to the XML payload explicitly.
The issue, is that if you have an XML payload, that would get populated by the datasource, it doesn't seem to be possible to populate varying amounts of xml sub-elements that would be 1-*. In example in my first request I have 1 widget to query, and in my second request, I have 3 widgets. My widgets will vary in each request. So, within the XML payload, if you have a schema, you'd see:
Datasource record #1: widget:#123
Datasource record #2: widget:#123,widget:#124,widget:#125
The widgets here are just reoccurring elements within the widgets elements.
#1: <widgets><widget>#123</widget></widgets>
#2: <widgets><widget>#123</widget><widget>#124</widget><widget>#125</widget></widgets>
The tutorials don't provide insight to be able to populate an XML payload that varies #'s of elements by request. Ideally, I'd like to find a way to populate the datasource, and have the test create any number of sub-elements of widgets in this case based on the number of widgets in the spreadsheet.
Thanks!
