wildcard doesn't work for nil response

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&nbsp;Hi,&nbsp;&nbsp;I have XPath assertion for the response below.&nbsp;I am only concerned with the Activity and Agent values, so have wildcard enabled and use * for Reason.&nbsp;However if reason is returned as nil, this will fail assertion. Is there a way to include nil in the wildcard assertion?Alternatively, is there a way to have an OR assertion that will allow me to say 'nil OR *'?&nbsp;&lt;Log&gt;&lt;Activity&gt;Deactivated&lt;/Activity&gt;&lt;Reason xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/&gt;&lt;Agent&gt;XXX&lt;/Agent&gt;&lt;PerformedAt&gt;2017-11-06T01:32:16Z&lt;/PerformedAt&gt;&lt;/Log&gt;

nmrao · Answer

You mean just value of the element nil or don't get response at all?Any ways, you will have better control if you use Script Assertion.

keanesean · Answer

Hi Rao,&nbsp;&nbsp;I mean receiving the element with nil = true as per example below. I will look into your suggestion of scripting the assertion instead.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;Reason xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;

paulms · Answer

You could also use 2 separate assertions with XPath expressions //Log/Activity and //Log/Agent

keanesean · Answer

Yes, I had considered that also, but the xml I provided is only part of the overall response, so would need a lot of assertions :(&nbsp;

groovyguy · Answer

If my test tends to require a lot of XPATH matches, I tend to compile them all into one groovy script test.

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