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keanesean
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

wildcard doesn't work for nil response

 Hi,    I have XPath assertion for the response below.  I am only concerned with the Activity and Agent values, so have wildcard enabled and use * for Reason.  However if reason is returned as ni...
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nmrao
Champion Level 3
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.
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keanesean
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

Hi Rao, 

 

I mean receiving the element with nil = true as per example below. I will look into your suggestion of scripting the assertion instead.  

 

<Reason xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>

 

 

  • PaulMS's avatar
    PaulMS
    Super Contributor
    7 years ago

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

    • keanesean's avatar
      keanesean
      Occasional Contributor
      7 years ago

      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 :( 

      • groovyguy's avatar
        groovyguy
        Champion Level 1
        7 years ago

        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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