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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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awl
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

Hello Rao,

 

nmrao wrote:
Have you followed any documentation? Please check below if not already
https://www.soapui.org/docs/extension-plugins/developing-plugins/plugin-development/
Where did you copied the library that you created?

yes, I was fully aware of the link that you provided.

The code sample with the "randomNumber" ValueProvider can be found at many places, e.g.

https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/configure/plugins/dev/annotations/misc/valueprovider.html

(and yes, I am aware that generally this is about commercial ReadyAPI), or also in the Maven SoapUI plugin archetype project(s) on Github:

https://github.com/olensmar/maven-soapui-plugin-archetype/blob/master/src/main/resources/java/ValueProvider.inc

https://github.com/SmartBear/ready-api-plugins/blob/master/ready-api-plugin-archetype/src/main/resources/java/ValueProvider.inc

 

The sad thing (and I really wonder that the person who wrote this piece of code and documentation has not provided this info) is that there is absolutely no information available at any of these places how to access the value that has now successfully been provided by the ValueProvider from any test case...

 

I will just move forward and try the proposal from your next reply and report back shortly.

 

Many thanks so far! 😀

Andreas