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tinoboehme
Occasional Contributor
12 years ago

[res] shared Object / Variable (not Property) within a test

Hello,

is there a possibility to share an Object or an Variable within a testRun?
e.g. I have two groovy testSteps and I'm creating in the first step an Object of an own class:

def myObject = new soapui.utils.myUtils( context, log) 
assert "1st TestStep" == myObject.context.testCase.getName()

Now I need to access the same (!) Object within the second testStep:

????
assert "1st TestStep" == myObject.context.testCase.getName()

In this case I get following Error message and the TestStep is failed:
[tt:35su6o8z]ERROR:An error occured [No such property: myObject for class: Script3], see error log for details[/tt:35su6o8z]

I don't want to create a new object:

def myObject = new soapui.utils.myUtils( context, log) 
assert "2ndTestStep" == myObject.context.testCase.getName()


If I try to save this Object at a Property I get only a string containing the reference:
[tt:35su6o8z]soapui.utils.myUtils@2fb5a9d9[/tt:35su6o8z]
Is it possible to use this string to fetch the initial created Object?

Regards Tino
  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    12 years ago
    Hi Tino,

    Thank you for your detailed inquiry.

    SoapUI properties only contain strings, so when saving an object to a property what is actually stored is the string representation of the object. Thus, getting your old object is unfortunately not possible.

    If you wish, we can create a feature request for this to be implemented.


    Regards,

    Arian
    SmartBear Sweden
  • tinoboehme's avatar
    tinoboehme
    Occasional Contributor
    12 years ago
    To save the string representation of the object inside a property is only one idea to get the same Object state back.
    But as I found in a similar thread this is not possible

    Another Idea is to save this object reference at a public variable within the testRunner object.
    Is there any similar method to achieve this?

    pseudo code for 1st TestStep:

    def myObject = new soapui.utils.myUtils( context, log) 
    testRunner.setObjectReference("myObject", myObject)
    assert "1st TestStep" == myObject.context.testCase.getName()


    pseudo code for 2nd TestStep:

    myObject = testRunner.getObjectReference("myObject")
    assert "1st TestStep" == myObject.context.testCase.getName()


    If there is no similar method, it would be nice if you can create a feature request for the implementation of this Methods.

    Regards Tino
  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    12 years ago
    Hi Tino,

    If you want to share objects between TestSteps in the same case, you can simply save them in the test case's context (it has basic Map<Key, Value> functionality), like this:


    def myObject = new SomeSortOfObject()
    context.put("AStringKey", myObject)

    and then access them in a different test step using


    context.get("AStringKey")


    I hope this helps you solve your problem!

    Regards,

    Arian
    SmartBear Sweden