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arupacharya1784
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

How to remove auto populated fields in SOAPUI Pro request?

Hi, My request always comes with auto populated fields after I save. For example. If I execute the below request, it works fine. <abc>000012</abc> Once I save, close & reopen the Test Step again,...
  • Radford's avatar
    Radford
    8 years ago

    Are you using the "Form" view of the request editor? As I can replicate the behaviour you describe by deleteing data from the "XML" view, switching to the "Form" view and then when going back to the "XML" view and elements with minOccurs=1 are recreated

     

    My guess (and this is a guess) is that when going from the "Form" view to the "XML" view, Ready API has to recreate the XML, thus all it can use to do that is the WSDL contract, thus if the contract states minOccurs=1 then it will add the element. Perhaps somebody from SmartBear can confirm?

     

    Fundamentally though if you have minOccurs=1 it is mandatory, regardless what somebody may say. Saying that, if your problem is caused by the "Form" view as described above, you can set the default SOAP request editor in the preferences to "Source" and never switch to the "Form", though to be honest I would only see this as a very temporary work around as simply switching to the Form view (a very common thing) will break your tests.

nmrao's avatar
nmrao
Champion Level 3
8 years ago
Not sure if the problem is understand. Would you please show the problem using a screen shot?
  • arupacharya1784's avatar
    arupacharya1784
    Occasional Contributor
    8 years ago

    Below is my Test Step (Request).

     

    <soapenv:Envelope>
    <soapenv:Header/>
    <soapenv:Body>
    <xyz>
    <Amount>50000</Amount>
    </xyz>
    </soapenv:Body>
    </soapenv:Envelope>

     

    It gives proper response. Then I save the project, close the Test Step & reopen again. Below is the Request.

     

    <soapenv:Envelope>
    <soapenv:Header/>
    <soapenv:Body> 
    <xyz>
    <Amount>50000</Amount>

    <Amount1/>

    <Amount2/>

    <Amount3/>
    </xyz>
    </soapenv:Body>
    </soapenv:Envelope>

     

    Because of new tags like <Amount1/>, <Amount2/> & <Amount3/>, which gets auto populated every time, the Test Step fails this time. Ideally only <Amount> should come in the Request like I saved earlier.

     

    WSDL has <Amount1>, <Amount2> & <Amount3> tags as MinOccurs=1 but Dev team are saying these are not mandatory fields.

     

    I want only <Amount> to come in the request all the time.

    • Radford's avatar
      Radford
      Super Contributor
      8 years ago

      Are you using the "Form" view of the request editor? As I can replicate the behaviour you describe by deleteing data from the "XML" view, switching to the "Form" view and then when going back to the "XML" view and elements with minOccurs=1 are recreated

       

      My guess (and this is a guess) is that when going from the "Form" view to the "XML" view, Ready API has to recreate the XML, thus all it can use to do that is the WSDL contract, thus if the contract states minOccurs=1 then it will add the element. Perhaps somebody from SmartBear can confirm?

       

      Fundamentally though if you have minOccurs=1 it is mandatory, regardless what somebody may say. Saying that, if your problem is caused by the "Form" view as described above, you can set the default SOAP request editor in the preferences to "Source" and never switch to the "Form", though to be honest I would only see this as a very temporary work around as simply switching to the Form view (a very common thing) will break your tests.

      • arupacharya1784's avatar
        arupacharya1784
        Occasional Contributor
        8 years ago

        Thank You very much. It works like I expected.

         

        One question. For Web Services which work fine, shall I stick to Form or Source?

         

        In other words, if I keep Source, can I expect unexpected Responses in future or it may impact somewhere?