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fazlook
Frequent Contributor
9 years ago

Compare only the format (not the content) of 2 XML responses

How do i compare only the format of 2 XML responses and make sure they keep the same order?   I would like to:   Send a PUT request1 that contains right XML elements -> Get RESPONSE1 format (i do...
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KarelHusa
Super Contributor
9 years ago

I compare XML documents with XMLUnit Java library. The documentation of XMLUnit is here: https://github.com/xmlunit/user-guide/wiki .

 

I make a comparisson test case in SoapUI containing steps:

1. Soap request to a service A

2. Soap request to a service B

3. Groovy script to compare the response of step1 with the response of step2

 

The test case is successfull when all 3 test steps succeed.

 

I found effective to develop a Java library and place the jar file into bin/ext folder of SoapUI. Then I import my classes in the Groovy script and keep the Groovy code rather small. But you can put XMLUnit jar into your bin/ext folder and start straight away within Groovy script.

 

Actually, it would be great if SoapUI introduced such functionality out-of-the-box (compare test step), selecting two documents, choosing which way to compare (e.g. structure only) and which parts to ignore (using XPath expressions).

 

Karel