Hi,
I would expect that to create a REST project, TestSuite and TestCase from a WADL is certainly possible using Groovy Script, but before going any further, given that you say this is based on a URI/WADL that the user provides, may I ask:
a) Why you want to do this and why the usr cannot just use the menu driven functionality e.g. new REST project from WADL?
b) Is it that you want to generate the project on the fly and have many different WADLs to use? If you just want to vary the REST service endpoint / request values of the tests, then there are easier ways to achieve this.
Cheers,
Rupert
Thanks for the quick response
a) I will have GUI for user to provide the URI / WADL as input. based on that it generates TestSuites,Testcase automatically.
b) Generate the new REST Project and override the endpoint/request params.
Ok, no problem.
for a) I take it you know how to get the GUI to generate a REST project / TestSuite / TestCase based on the WADL/URI? e.g. File New REST Project > Import WSDL (or use URI) etc and generate TestSuite, TestCase and REST Test Request Test Step? Sorry if this is not what you meant.
for b) You would need to parameterise (using property expansions) the enpoint / request params for the REST Test Request TestStep - to do this, have you seen this other questsion & answer that came up today it covers this topic:
Once parameterised, you can then provide the values for the endpoint/request from anywhere you like e.g. files, databases, other service responses, property files etc.
Is this the sort of thing you meant?
Cheers,
Rup
Hi Rup,
a) Yes i know this option avilable in soapUI GUI. But my question here is how i can do this using groovy script. (e.g ) just executing the .bat file will call the groovy script and create the project.xml in specified location. all the inputs (URI/WADL, project name, path) will be passed as parameters.
Hi,
Ok, sorry, I did wonder if that was what you meant i.e. generate the whole project etc from a command line.
Its definately an interesting question, but unfortunately apart from feeling that it is very doable with Groovy (as I have done / seen bits od scripts like this before), I don't have the script yet and it might take me a while - maybe someone else can jump in if they have such a script?
I did see this post where on page 2 the guy has a Groovy script to create the TestSteps dynamically (but not the project):
I must admit I am quite curious to know why you need to generate the whole thing? As I have always been able to simply create the project / TestSuite / TestCase / Steps manually, parameterise all the aspects that need to be dynamic as property expansions and then pass the poperty vales when running from the command like script - do you need to generate everything on the fly as part of some kind of CI process?
Sorry not to have a quick answer,
Cheers,
Rup
