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tclotworthy
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9 years ago

Having Difficulty Passing Parameters Between Test Steps in a Test Case (REST Project)

Hello,   I am using SoapUI Open Source (REST program), and I am having difficulty figuring out how to do the following:   1) retrieve a parameter from a response returned from web service call — ...
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    tclotworthy
    9 years ago

    Hi Rao,

    I was able to get this to work via the Parameter Transfer tool in SoapUI. I had started a separate thread in the SoapUI NG forum here. Thanks for your help. If I can figure out how, I am going to say that this question is answered. Thanks again!

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nmrao
Champion Level 3
9 years ago
Can you post raw response of #1 and which value out of it needs to be passed to #2?
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    tclotworthy
    Contributor
    9 years ago

    Hi Rao, thanks for your response. I wish I had noticed it earlier. Here is sample output:

     

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Content-Type: text/xml
    Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:25:00 GMT
    Connection: keep-alive
    Transfer-Encoding: chunked

    PlanID: 50027

     

    Its the PlanID we want as input to the next test step (next step basically will be endpoint like: someEndpoint/updatePlan?PlanId=whatever

     

    Thanks for any response and Happy New Year!

     

     

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      tclotworthy
      Contributor
      9 years ago

      ok, I have figured out how to extract response from a test step. Here is example groovy step that works:

       

      def response = context.expand( '${CreatePID#Response}' )

       

       

      So, now I have the input I want for my next test step (response). I simply want to be able to do something where the next step corresponds to calling a restful endpoint such as: 

       

      someEndpoint/updatePlan?PlanId=response

       

      , where "response" is the value I extracted from the previous step.

       

      So, I would be grateful for anyone who might know how to take that "response" and pass to next step to accomplish what I indicated above in bold. Thanks!

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        nmrao
        Champion Level 3
        9 years ago