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mmoser18's avatar
mmoser18
Frequent Contributor
10 years ago

How to call some common Groovy code from multiple assertions?

I am really getting that hang of soapUI's scripting capabilities. They are totally groovy, indeed! :-)   I have meanwhile unified my test cases such, that they all execute the same code-snippet whi...
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rupert_anderson
Valued Contributor

Hello again!

 

Groovy is one of the best parts of SoapUI I would say! :-)

 

1. For this part I would consider writing yourself a custom Groovy library to contain any code that you need to be reused. In the pro version of SoapUI there is script library functionality for this, but its also quite easy in the Open Source version. Basically SoapUI can use extenernal java/Groovy libraries added to the /ext extensions folder - brief steps are:

1a) Create a Groovy class to contain your code e.g. with a public method, in a folder structure matching its package declaration.

1b) Compile the class

1c) Create a jar file containing the packaged class.

 

2. To make the jar file library available to SoapUI, place it in the<SoapUI Home> /java/app/bin/ext folder and restart SoapUI, you should see a message in the SoapUI log indicating the the jar file has been picked up. To use the function from the class in the Jar file, use a standard import statement to import the class e.g. in a Groovy TestStep or Script Assertion. Then instantiate the class and call the method on it you need.

 

3. Using testRunner.testCase.name from a Groovy TestStep or using the approach from http://community.smartbear.com/t5/SoapUI-Open-Source/How-to-access-standard-i-e-non-custom-properties/m-p/104385#M18200 (assuming it was right for you in that post!)

 

4. When calling the method of your library class you could pass the value of testRunner.testCase.name directly.

 

(I can happily elaborate further on any of these if necessary, really needed an actual example to be more clear) 

 

Does this make sense?

 

Cheers,

Rupert

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mmoser18
Frequent Contributor
9 years ago

Hi - sorry for the very lazy reply. I finally came around to dive into that.

 

My aim is to make my script assertion as short as possible as most of the code is identical and thus shared for most test-cases.

 

My script assertion contains one line:

new lhapi_tests.PatternMatch().match_pattern('lounges', false, true);

 

 

The Groovy class I implemented reads:

package lhapi_tests

class PatternMatch 
{
   public void match_pattern(def rulename, def debug, def log) { 
      ... // does some testing based on the rulename.
   }
}

The .jar containing that class is place in the ext-directory and is picked up during soapUI's startup:

 

2016-03-05 23:43:52,452 INFO  [SoapUI] Adding [C:\Program Files\SmartBear\SoapUI-5.2.1\bin\ext\pattern_match.jar] to extensions classpath

When I send a request the assertion fails with the error message

 

-> No such property: context for class: lhapi_tests.PatternMatch

 

What "context" is meant here and how do I define or pass that to my test-class?