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AAB
Regular Contributor
6 years ago

ReadyAPI: How to add query parameters to an URL as a Resource

Hi,   Setup of my testcase is a groovy script that needs to read a URL and find a particular beId. When found, that parameter is saved on Project Level in 'Customer Property'. A second part o...
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    AAB
    6 years ago

    richie  OK, I found the solution on my own!  :-) 

     

    Setup a Project in ReadyAPI with 

    * 1 TestSuite

    * 1 TestCase

    * 2 teststeps: 1 Groovy and 1 REST Request

     

    copy this code in the groovy (it seems like a lot but it's not.  I've just added a lot of comments for later or someone else)

     

    //cfr.  https://www.leveluplunch.com/groovy/examples/get-webpage-content-url-uri/
//https://community.smartbear.com/t5/SoapUI-Pro/How-to-Parse-a-JSON-Response-Using-Groovy-Examples/td-p/155770
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
/*=========================================================================================================*/
//declare your parameters on Project level. In this case I have declared 2 parameters: beId and language. 
//don't fill in anything.
/*==========================================================================================================*/
def getConceptSchemes = "https://pdc.dig.ta.belgium.be/api/pdc/concepts/schemes".toURL().getText()
//parse json string using JsonSlurper - basically converts it to a groovy list
def parsedJson = new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText(getConceptSchemes)
//get data
def findAGC = parsedJson.find { it.name == 'ACTIVITY_GROUP' }
log.info (findAGC.beId)
log.info (findAGC.language)

//fill in beid-value in PropertyValue  'param_beid'
//cfr.  https://www.soapui.org/scripting-properties/tips-tricks.html
testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.setPropertyValue('param_beid', findAGC.beId )
testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.setPropertyValue('param_lang', findAGC.language )

    In your 'Rest Request' not necessary to add a parameter. Except if you want it to be added to the parameters of the URL.

    Go to the tab 'Projects', select the webservice that is linked to your Project, go to its Endpoint and add this in the resource of the URL:

    beId=${#Project#param_beid}

    beId = the parameter that should be looked for by the URL

    Project = Soapcall, don't change this!

    param_beid = the parameter that I defined on Project level for my parameter.

     

    If you run the Groovy test step and the request test step you will see the response.

     

    EDIT:

    This is a possibility for if the file doesn't use rootnames or space declarations!

AAB's avatar
AAB
Regular Contributor

Hi richie 

Thanks for your time an good effort! I appreciate this.

To answer your questions:

1)  I did started with groovy snippets step by step where as I came up to this result. The functionality can't do that as far as I know. Also you need to bear in mind how many times you need to repeat those actions. As I have 27 different codes suite to setup, that's a lot of repeats.... (I am on a very heavy project, actually to heavy for ReadyAPI, but as I'm not a java coder I want to use ReadyAPI to test the API's and do as much as possible all the rest....)

2) Apparently for calling the parameters from property level you need to use this line:

testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.setPropertyValue('param_beid', findAGC.beId )

where "param_beid" is the name you gave to the property saved on Project Level and "findAGC.beId" is the value. In my case I' m searching for the value by parsing the json answer for a particular element (in this case, not the whole JSON file) and calling upon the value expected, for me the "beId".

3) For language I indeed receive an "null" message what is correct in my case.

 

Hope this helped a bit.

Cheers!

AAB

AAB's avatar
AAB
Regular Contributor
6 years ago

richie  OK, I found the solution on my own!  :-) 

 

Setup a Project in ReadyAPI with 

* 1 TestSuite

* 1 TestCase

* 2 teststeps: 1 Groovy and 1 REST Request

 

copy this code in the groovy (it seems like a lot but it's not.  I've just added a lot of comments for later or someone else)

 

//cfr.  https://www.leveluplunch.com/groovy/examples/get-webpage-content-url-uri/
//https://community.smartbear.com/t5/SoapUI-Pro/How-to-Parse-a-JSON-Response-Using-Groovy-Examples/td-p/155770
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
/*=========================================================================================================*/
//declare your parameters on Project level. In this case I have declared 2 parameters: beId and language. 
//don't fill in anything.
/*==========================================================================================================*/
def getConceptSchemes = "https://pdc.dig.ta.belgium.be/api/pdc/concepts/schemes".toURL().getText()
//parse json string using JsonSlurper - basically converts it to a groovy list
def parsedJson = new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText(getConceptSchemes)
//get data
def findAGC = parsedJson.find { it.name == 'ACTIVITY_GROUP' }
log.info (findAGC.beId)
log.info (findAGC.language)

//fill in beid-value in PropertyValue  'param_beid'
//cfr.  https://www.soapui.org/scripting-properties/tips-tricks.html
testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.setPropertyValue('param_beid', findAGC.beId )
testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.setPropertyValue('param_lang', findAGC.language )

In your 'Rest Request' not necessary to add a parameter. Except if you want it to be added to the parameters of the URL.

Go to the tab 'Projects', select the webservice that is linked to your Project, go to its Endpoint and add this in the resource of the URL:

beId=${#Project#param_beid}

beId = the parameter that should be looked for by the URL

Project = Soapcall, don't change this!

param_beid = the parameter that I defined on Project level for my parameter.

 

If you run the Groovy test step and the request test step you will see the response.

 

EDIT:

This is a possibility for if the file doesn't use rootnames or space declarations!