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alibaba82
Super Contributor
18 years ago

importing org.codehaus.groovy.scriptom.ActiveXProxy

Hello,
I am trying to launch internet explore via groovy script within a soapui testcase to validate some registration URL. I read the groovy docs and followed their example and was able to launch IE using groovyconsole. However when I add the same script in soapui groovy I get an error at the import statement. Can you tell me where I am going wrong. Seems like I have to import some jar and dll files from the scriptcom zip bundle. The URL and groovy script is shown below.
http://groovy.codehaus.org/COM+Scripting

import org.codehaus.groovy.scriptom.ActiveXProxy

// instantiate Internet Explorer
def explorer = new ActiveXProxy("InternetExplorer.Application")

// set its properties
explorer.Visible = true
explorer.AddressBar = true

// navigate to a site
explorer.Navigate("http://glaforge.free.fr/weblog")
Thread.sleep(1000)
explorer.StatusText = "Guillaume Laforge's weblog"
Thread.sleep(2000)

// quit Internet Explorer
explorer.Quit()

Thanks

Ali
  • omatzura's avatar
    omatzura
    Super Contributor
    18 years ago
    Hi Ali,

    this is cool, I didn't know of this extension.. you could probably use it to script mercury objects as well (instead of creating a program that needs to be launched..)

    Anyway, do as follows:
    - put the 2 jar files in the \bin\ext folder
    - put the jacob.dll file in the \bin folder

    When starting soapUI you should get something like

    10:46:47,125 INFO  [SoapUI] Added [file:/C:/workspace/core/ext/jacob.jar] to classpath
    10:46:47,125 INFO  [SoapUI] Added [file:/C:/workspace/core/ext/scriptom-1.2.jar] to classpath


    and your script should run just fine.. (it did for me at least :-)

    regards!

    /Ole
    eviware.com
  • alibaba82's avatar
    alibaba82
    Super Contributor
    18 years ago
    I tried to use scriptCOM to create the mercury object initially but could not really figure it out and at that time I had most of the code done already. Once my current project is done I'm going to go back to this extension to see If there is a more graceful way of updating Quality Center from a groovyscript rather than launching an application.

    Thanks for you help

    Ali
  • alibaba82's avatar
    alibaba82
    Super Contributor
    18 years ago
    Ole,
    on a side notice I notice that the soapUI installer never creates the
    soapui/bin/ext folder. Is this expected ?
  • omatzura's avatar
    omatzura
    Super Contributor
    18 years ago
    Hi,

    yes, you are correct.. you are "expected" to create this folder yourself :-)

    Thanks for noticing, we'll fix this in the upcoming release!

    regards,

    /Ole
    eviware.com
  • alibaba82's avatar
    alibaba82
    Super Contributor
    18 years ago
    Hello Ole,
    I am having a little problem when using scriptcom + global groovy script + running from testrunner.

    I have a groovy script in my script library - verify email in which i have an import statment
    import org.codehaus.groovy.scriptom.ActiveXProxy
    I call this verifyemail script from within my testcases. When I run from GUI view, the test passes with no problem. However when I run the test from command line using testrunner, I get the following error

    Status: FAILED
    Time Taken: 10
    Size: 0
    Timestamp: Thu Jul 19 11:10:58 PDT 2007
    TestStep: VerifyEmail
    Error:org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, Script1.groovy: 4: unable to resolve class soapui.Tvguide.ReusableScripts.VerifyEmail
    @ line 4, column 14.
    1 error

    startup failed, Script1.groovy: 4: unable to resolve class soapui.Tvguide.ReusableScripts.VerifyEmail
    @ line 4, column 14.
    1 error


    When I comment out import org.codehaus.groovy.scriptom.ActiveXProxy and run from command line it works fine. Seems like the scriptcom libraries are not getting loaded when running from command line

    This one is urgent, quick reply would be really appreciated.

    Thanks

    Ali
  • omatzura's avatar
    omatzura
    Super Contributor
    18 years ago
    Hi Ali,

    hmm.. do you get info on the loading of external libraries when the testrunner starts (like you get when starting the gui)? Also, be sure that the directory containing the testrunner is the current working directory when running..

    regards!

    /Ole
    eviware.com
  • alibaba82's avatar
    alibaba82
    Super Contributor
    18 years ago
    here is what i see when I start the tests from testrunner. Also what do you mean by 'Also, be sure that the directory containing the testrunner is the current working directory when running..'


    C:\Program Files\eviware\soapUI-Pro-1.7.5-beta2\bin>testrunner.bat -f"C:\Work\soapUI\TestResults\DeviceManagementService\ITG-ENV\build-
    24" -r -j "C:\Workspace\QA\Automation\SoapUIScripts\ITG_env\DeviceManagementService.xml"
    log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (com.eviware.soapui.SoapUI).
    log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
    soapUI 1.7.5 beta2 Pro TestCase Runner
    Configuring log4j from [jar:file:/C:/Program%20Files/eviware/soapUI-Pro-1.7.5-beta2/lib/soapui-1.7.5-beta2.jar!/soapui-log4j.xml]
    13:19:54,122 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] setting projectFile to [C:\Workspace\QA\Automation\SoapUIScripts\ITG_env\DeviceManagementServ
    ice.xml]
    13:19:54,169 INFO  [SoapUI] Added [file:/C:/Program Files/eviware/soapUI-Pro-1.7.5-beta2/bin/ext/jacob.jar] to classpath
    13:19:54,185 INFO  [SoapUI] Added [file:/C:/Program Files/eviware/soapUI-Pro-1.7.5-beta2/bin/ext/scriptom-1.2.jar] to classpath
    13:19:57,654 INFO  [WsdlProject] Loaded project from [C:\Workspace\QA\Automation\SoapUIScripts\ITG_env\DeviceManagementService.xml]
    13:19:59,076 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Running soapUI tests in project [DeviceManagementService]
    13:19:59,076 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Running soapUI suite [GetAllDevices_Valid], runType = SEQUENTIAL
    13:19:59,107 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Running soapUI testcase [TC_DVM_01_1_01_GetAllDevices_validation]
    13:19:59,169 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] running step [Delay [1000ms]]
    13:20:00,185 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] running step [RandomizeUser]
    13:20:00,732 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] running step [Properties]
    13:20:00,732 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] running step [Transfer_CreateUser]
    13:20:03,170 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] running step [CreateUser - Request 1]
    13:20:08,576 INFO  [HttpClientSupport$Helper] Initializing SSL
    13:20:10,170 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Assertion [SOAP Response] has status VALID
    13:20:10,170 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Assertion [Match content of [Status]] has status VALID
    13:20:10,170 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] running step [VerifyEmail]
    13:20:10,185 ERROR [log] org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, Script1.groovy: 4: unable to r
    esolve class soapui.Tvguide.ReusableScripts.VerifyEmail
    @ line 4, column 14.
    1 error

    13:20:10,185 ERROR [SoapUITestCaseRunner] VerifyEmail failed, exporting to [C:\Work\soapUI\TestResults\DeviceManagementService\ITG-ENV\
    build-24\GetAllDevices_Valid-TC_DVM_01_1_01_GetAllDevices_validation-VerifyEmail-0-FAILED.txt]
    13:20:10,232 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] running step [AuthenticateUser - Request 1]
    13:20:10,373 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Assertion [SOAP Response] has status VALID
    13:20:10,373 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] Assertion [Match content of [Status]] has status FAILED
    13:20:10,373 INFO  [SoapUITestCaseRunner] ASSERTION FAILED -> [Lcom.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.teststeps.assertions.AssertionError;@1708f
    9
  • omatzura's avatar
    omatzura
    Super Contributor
    18 years ago
    Hi Ali,

    had you set the global scripts-path to something other than the default?

    regards,

    /Ole
    eviware.com
  • omatzura's avatar
    omatzura
    Super Contributor
    18 years ago
    ok.. hmm.. could you please check that the soapui-settings.xml file in the bin directory you are running from contains the correct path to the script-library?

    ie open it in a text-editor and search for

    C:\workspace\soapui-pro\scripts

    regards,

    /Ole
    eviware.com