[Res] DataSoruce with mandatory and non mandatory fields

Hi,

Unfortunately "Remove Empty Content" property applies to SOAP requests only. With REST requests we can't be sure whether the payload is XML, JSON, any text, etc. So there's no applied logic to remove XML.

For a workaround I would suggest using an event filter: http://www.soapui.org/Scripting-Propert ... dlers.html

So I have the following code that works in my instance but it is just a suggestion and requires full blown testing. This is not part of core SoapUI Pro offering and we can't provide support for it if there are edge cases where it fails.

You can create "RequestFilter.filterRequest" (http://www.soapui.org/Scripting-Propert ... dlers.html) and paste in the following code:

def groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils( context )
def stepName = context.getCurrentStep().getLabel()
def holder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder( stepName + "#Request" )
// set default value here
def defaultVal = ""
for( item in holder.getDomNodes( "//*[. = '']" )){
     holder.removeDomNodes("//"+item.nodeName)
}
// update request 
holder.updateProperty()
// write updated request back to teststep
context.requestContent = holder.xml

**UPDATE (1/17/2014)**
I have since seen an issue with the above code. It leaves property expansion without evaluating it. Also, it didn't take into an account whether the node removed was an endnode. The following improved workaround code takes care of those issues:

def groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils( context )
def holder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder( context.requestContent )


// find end nodes that also only consist of whitespace
for( item in holder.getDomNodes( "//*[normalize-space(.) = '' and count(*) = 0]" )){
 item.removeXobj()
}
// update request and write updated request back to teststep
holder.updateProperty()
context.requestContent = holder.xml

Thanks,
Michael Giller
SmartBear Software