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awl
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

Example needed: How to use a ValueProvider plugin to provide a property value?

Hello SoapUI experts,   can you please provide an example of how to access a custom @PluginValueProvider a.k.a. DynamicPropertyResolver.ValueProvider implementation class registered for a valueName...
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  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    4 years ago

    awl 

    How about

     

    context.randomNumber

    If you are testing in groovy script, the above should work.

     

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nmrao
Champion Level 3
4 years ago

awl 

How about

 

context.randomNumber

If you are testing in groovy script, the above should work.

 

  • awl's avatar
    awl
    Occasional Contributor
    4 years ago

    Hello again nmrao ,

     

    nmrao wrote:

    awl 

    How about

     

     

    context.randomNumber

     

    If you are testing in groovy script, the above should work.

    great news. This definitely works:

     

    log.info(context.randomNumber)
log.info(context.randomNumber)
log.info(context.randomNumber)
log.info(context.randomNumber)
log.info(context.randomNumber)

     

    and the output is:

     

    Thu Jul 15 11:49:07 CEST 2021:INFO:637.6823442157611
Thu Jul 15 11:49:07 CEST 2021:INFO:516.7372824953289
Thu Jul 15 11:49:07 CEST 2021:INFO:628.5712519826241
Thu Jul 15 11:49:07 CEST 2021:INFO:353.6060359250122
Thu Jul 15 11:49:07 CEST 2021:INFO:656.1003869084848

     

     

    But this is not yet what I'd like to see: I'd like to assign the "randomNumber" value provided as the value of a "left-hand-side" property, e.g. at test case or test suite or even global level.

     

    Of course, I can always achieve this by writing custom Groovy code that does this assignment, such as

     

    testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("randomNumberProvided", context.randomNumber)

     

    but this would obviously require an additional test step in any test case that would like to use the value from the value provider.

     

    So I am assuming that there MUST be an easier way to do this by typical SoapUI expansible property notation?

     

    Many thanks one more time!

     

    Best regards

    Andreas

    • awl's avatar
      awl
      Occasional Contributor
      4 years ago

      Heureka - it seems to work now!  😀

       

      • nmrao's avatar
        nmrao
        Champion Level 3
        4 years ago
        This is brilliant. Nice you have explore well.
    • nmrao's avatar
      nmrao
      Champion Level 3
      4 years ago

      Would you like to use randomNumber in test request such as SOAP or REST?

      say <id><randomNumber></id>

      There are other options such

      <id>${= System.currentTimeMillis()}</id>

       

      or

      <id>${= java.util.UUID.randomUUID().text()}</id>

       

      Please see if the above approach works in your case.

      • awl's avatar
        awl
        Occasional Contributor
        4 years ago

        Hi again,

         

        nmrao wrote:

        Would you like to use randomNumber in test request such as SOAP or REST?

        no - my goal for the plugin is even (much) more complex: I want to use a named ValueProvider but in addition, pass parameters to a concrete usage of this ValueProvider, such as

         

        Value Provider Name ("valueName") == "vaultSecret"

         

        and then use it like

        ${vaultSecret#some_path_within_a_Vault_instance_representing_a_secret_value}

        Do you happen to know whether it's possible to pass such a property parameter value ("some_path_within_a_Vault_instance_representing_a_secret_value") into the ValueProvider class, i.e. can I access it using the PropertyExpansionContext that is passed to my

        public String getValue(PropertyExpansionContext propertyExpansionContext) { (...) }

        method?

         

        Thanks a million one more time for your kind help! 👍
        awl