How extract html string from json response.

Ok - it's took me a while but I've got it working using XPATH (like the CDATA handling passing the content from one property to another) - but there is a problem with the content.

you have a value of &nbps; in your content that the parser doesn't like - once I'd removed this - I got it working with the embedded functionality and I used an event handler to replace the '&nbps;' char anyway.

Just so you can follow what I did - I created a VIRT that would return your response

I ran the request and did a property transfer of the Result object, passing the contents of the Result object (html string) to a property (see next image)

I then did a transfer of the html string (in the Properties step) to a second Property, but specifying the data-id tag attribute (see next image)

as you can see - the data-id attribute value was successfully picked up in the transfer (THERE IS A PROBLEM HERE - and I'll come back to it) - for completeness the next image is the Properties step - here you can see the 2 properties that were extracted successfully

So - all looks ok - right?  Well there is a problem using XPATH to extract the html attribute value you need.  There is an undeclared xml entity (not one of the standard 5) within your content - the value is ' ' within the html string that will cause a problem for the parser.

If you search your response you can find it - the above approach will fail BECAUSE the content includes this.  I cheated inasmuch that I initially manually replaced the ' ' char encode with '&' once the string had been transferred (after the first transfer).  There is a way around this (by using an event handler to replace this ' ' with ANYTHING that is standard xml) - however - it depends how important the content is in your tests before you start thinking about altering the response using an event handler.

SO - if you don't replace the ' ', the testcase will fail on the property transfer step.  If you replace the ' ' with something that doesn't need declaring (like '&') the test case will run through executing successfully (extracting the values into the Properties step for later use)

As I state above - to get it to run successfully without any manual intervention - I used the 'RequestFilter.afterRequest event handler.  The code for the event handler was as follows:

def content = context.httpResponse.responseContent
content = content.replaceAll( " ", "&" ) // this replaces the nonbreakspace char for the ampersand code which doesnt need to be declared in xml

log.info( content )

context.httpResponse.responseContent = content

So - this works completely automatically once I'd added in that event handler.  its not pretty and some of the other lads may have some whizzy way of using a groovy step in the test case to do all the work for you (but I can't help with that) - but if there's no problem replacing the nonbreakspace entity - the above will get you where you need to (i.e. extracting attributes from the html string)

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

richie

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Hi Richie, 

thank you a lot for you help! 

I used your solution and it works! it's wonderful! 

I don't know what is  'RequestFilter.afterRequest event handler. 

And did this solution in longer way but with the same logic as you discribed .

Might it can be helpful for somebody:

1)  Save Json request in Property1 using PropertyTransfer.

2) Then in  Groovy script invoked this property and replace  &nbps with '& as you discrabed. 

and set this XML in an another Property with Groovy

 Code is : 

import com.eviware.soapui.support.types.StringToStringMap
def result = testRunner.testCase.testSuite.getPropertyValue("TempTarget")
result = result.replaceAll( " ", "&")
testRunner.testCase.testSuite.setPropertyValue("Extracted", result);
log.info(result);

3) Use Property Transfer  and take  valie //div//@data-id from saved XML

Best regards!