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alibaba82
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16 years ago

soapui 2.5 'assertion for content' not working.

Hello,
I am trying to create a 'assertion of content' by comparing an elementA  from the response of step B to elementA of StepA. the values of the both the elementA is the same but the assertion fails with the following message.

XPathContains comparison failed, expecting [], actual was [3854868]

My Xpath Expression and Excpected Results is follows
declare namespace ns1='http://services.tvguide.com/v6/smartrecommendations';
//ns1:GetRecommendationsResponse[1]/ns1:GetRecommendationsResult[1]/ns1:Programs[1]/ns1:Program[1]/ns1:ProgramId[1]/text()


Expected Result
${GetRecommendations - No Usage Data#Response#//ns1:GetRecommendationsResponse[1]/ns1:GetRecommendationsResult[1]/ns1:Programs[1]/ns1:Program[1]/ns1:ProgramId[1]}


If I plugin 3854868 directly into Expected result, the assertion passes


Ali

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  • alibaba82's avatar
    alibaba82
    Super Contributor
    16 years ago
    This does not seem to happen on all test steps. I am able to create these kinds of assertions on some other test steps.

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

    no, not really.. the previous version expects a certain namespace prefix usage in the response message, this one will work with any one..

    regards,

    /Ole
    eviware.com
  • alibaba82's avatar
    alibaba82
    Super Contributor
    16 years ago
    I am not sure what you mean.
    If I have to manually enter the namespaces in the expected results, then how is this not a bug ?
    If there is no namespace prefix, then soapui does not seem to interpret the xpath expression in some cases.

    Thanks

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

    hm... When specifying an xpath-expression without a namespace declaration, soapUI will internally build a list of all namespaces available in the response and then assign them to sequentially generated namespace prefixes. In the process it will try to retain prefixes used in the message but there is no guarantee that this will succeed; in your case I am guessing that this algorithm is failing to assign the prefix "ns1" to your namespace for some reason, which will result in this behavior.

    You are correct though, there might be room for improvement here.. if you can show the actual response message that will not work with your initial version I can check it out!

    regards!

    /Ole
    eviware.com
  • alibaba82's avatar
    alibaba82
    Super Contributor
    16 years ago
    Xpath Expression:
    declare namespace ns1='http://services.tvguide.com/v6/smartrecommendations';
    //ns1:GetRecommendationsResponse[1]/ns1:GetRecommendationsResult[1]/ns1:Programs[1]/ns1:Program[1]/ns1:ProgramId[1]/text()

    Expected Result:
    ${GetRecommendations - No Usage Data#Response#//ns1:GetRecommendationsResponse[1]/ns1:GetRecommendationsResult[1]/ns1:Programs[1]/ns1:Program[1]/ns1:ProgramId[1]}

    Actual Response

     

          http://services.tvguide.com/v6/smartrec ... nsResponse
          urn:uuid:7b3ff294-6f69-446f-9a08-173219e70d03
          urn:uuid:1e73d046-c88b-40be-b8bd-2a51685741e9
          http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/a ... /anonymous
         
           
                2009-01-08T19:45:34Z
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