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Bryan_Nahrwold
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16 years ago

Reparsing an xml string with groovy

I have the following a WSDL operation response:


 
     
        <activation id="c5fb-7bfc-a755-4f07-9967" returnCode="success" description="" name="Avocent Management Platform Server" version="4.0"/><activation id="67b9-8372-eb53-4f8c-a863" returnCode="success" description="" name="Avocent Management Platform Console - 500 pack" version="4.0"/><activation id="5204-4734-c59e-4444-b734" returnCode="success" description="" name="Avocent Management Platform Reporting" version="4.0"/>
     
 


I am trying to verify that each of the three activation tags contains returnCode="success".  Because I have to reparse the string content of the out tag, I have been trying to use the following groovy script:

groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils( context )

holder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder("activateLicenses#Response")
log.info(activationOut = holder.getNodeValue( "//out" ))

This produces the response:
Thu Apr 29 16:24:14 MDT 2010:INFO:

I beleive my next step is to reparse using:
log.info(activationNode = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder(activationOut))


However, this give me an Error dialog: java.lang.NullPointerException

What call do I need to use to view this returned string as a node and what would be the code line to obtain the value of one of the attributes returnCode for an activation tag?

9 Replies

  • M_McDonald's avatar
    M_McDonald
    Super Contributor
    16 years ago
    The value for activationOut is not valid XML (3 separate nodes:)

    <activation id="c5fb-7bfc-a755-4f07-9967" returnCode="success" description="" name="Avocent Management Platform Server" version="4.0"/>
    <activation id="67b9-8372-eb53-4f8c-a863" returnCode="success" description="" name="Avocent Management Platform Console - 500 pack" version="4.0"/>
    <activation id="5204-4734-c59e-4444-b734" returnCode="success" description="" name="Avocent Management Platform Reporting" version="4.0"/>


    You would need to wrap it in an outer element.
  • Bryan_Nahrwold's avatar
    Bryan_Nahrwold
    Contributor
    16 years ago
    Thanks for the feedback.  The string I am getting back is the content of the out tag. As a test of the recommendation I received, I tried:

    log.info(activationNode = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder(''))

    I get the same java.lang.NullPointerException.

    I've also tried:
    log.info(activationOut = holder.getNodeValue( "//out//activation[1]/@id" ))
    but it returns null
    I'm just don't know how to extract this information.
  • M_McDonald's avatar
    M_McDonald
    Super Contributor
    16 years ago
    Sorry, there is not node value for the activation nodes as they are empty (only attributes.)

    Does this work for the IDs, for example?

    def ids = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder("<out>" + activationOut + "</out>")
    ids.getNodeValues("//activation/@id").each { id ->
     log.info id
    }
  • M_McDonald's avatar
    M_McDonald
    Super Contributor
    16 years ago
    Or this for all attributes:

    def outCount = activationOut.getDomNodes("//activation").size()
    for (def i = 1; i <= outCount; i++) { 
     activationOut.getDomNodes("//activation[$i]/@*").each { attr  ->
      log.info "$attr.name[$i]:$attr.value"
     }
    }
  • Bryan_Nahrwold's avatar
    Bryan_Nahrwold
    Contributor
    16 years ago
    Alas, no, but thanks for the suggestions.  Both:

    def outCount = activationOut.getDomNodes("//activation").size()

    and


    def ids = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder("" + activationOut + "")

    result in the NullPointerException.
  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
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    16 years ago
    Hi!

    hmm.. do you have a stacktrace for this npe in the error log?

    Are you using the latest version?

    regards!

    /Ole
    eviware.com
  • Bryan_Nahrwold's avatar
    Bryan_Nahrwold
    Contributor
    16 years ago
    Let's tr another approach. I originally wanted to just use a property transfer, but the response is escaped:


     
         
            <activation id="a724-af8a-d172-4720-8605" returnCode="success" description="" name="Avocent Management Platform Server" version="4.0"/><activation id="5607-390a-7b73-42ff-ace2" returnCode="success" description="" name="Avocent Management Platform Console - 500 pack" version="4.0"/><activation id="2626-c91a-22a4-4cf5-bd38" returnCode="errcode.licensing.error.activate.invalid.activationid" description="Flexera Error: major.minor.sys (50040.41147.14)    License generator error: No component(s): file C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vcg36457.prd line 12
    [Incident# 0050-82906] operationName=sHandleActivation. flxActSvrActivationSend failed. activationID=2626-c91a-22a4-4cf5-bd38 CommServer=https://fno-test.avocent.com:8888/flexnet/services/ActivationService?wsdl" name="Avocent Management Platform Reporting" version="4.0"/>
         
     


    I'm doing a multistep proeprty transfer.
    1st step:
    Source: activateLicenses  Property: response
    declare namespace ns2='http://ws.licensing.amp.avocent.com';
    //ns2:activateLicensesResponse/out

    Target: Properties  property responseXML

    produces:
    []

    I then create a second transfer:
    source: Properties  Property: responseXML
    I want to get the ID attribute from each activation tag, however
    /activation[1]/@id

    results in:
    [error: Unexepected element: EMPTY_TAG]

    I also tried:
    /activation[0]/@id just to make sure this wasn't indexed from 0, no difference.

    I know the response out tag is escaped. Is there a way to grab the id attribute from each
    activation tag even though this appears to be text now?

    Would appreciate any help you can offer.