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Scripter's avatar
Scripter
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

parsing json via Groovy in soapui

The JSON Data is a response of a rest service(list_files)

{"Files": [
   {"filepath": "input/file_29112017d.csv"},
   {"filepath": "input/file_29112017d.log"},
   {"filepath": "input/file_29112017d.ini"},
   {"filepath": "output/file_29112017d.xml"},
   {"filepath": "output/file_29112017d.csv.trc"}
]}

The goal is to get the path of csv file and not *csv.trc. Also the order of response varies with each test runs i.e 

$.Files[*].filepath[0] does not yield always
input/file_29112017d.csv

This doesn't work either 

import static com.jayway.jsonpath.JsonPath.parse

def response = context.expand( '${list_files#Response}' )
//log.info response gives correctly
def csvpath= parse(response).read('$.Files[?(@.filepath =~ /.*csv/i)]')
log.info csvpath

the error is 

Wed Nov 29 17:06:54 CET 2017:ERROR:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported operator =
   java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported operator =
   	at com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.filter.eval.ExpressionEvaluator.eval(ExpressionEvaluator.java:65)
   	at com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.filter.ArrayEvalFilter.isMatch(ArrayEvalFilter.java:90)
   	at com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.filter.ArrayEvalFilter.filter(ArrayEvalFilter.java:69)
   	at com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.filter.PathTokenFilter.filter(PathTokenFilter.java:50)
   	at com.jayway.jsonpath.JsonPath.read(JsonPath.java:255)
   	at com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.JsonReader.read(JsonReader.java:103)
   	at com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.JsonReader.read(JsonReader.java:97)
   	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
   	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
   	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
   	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PojoMetaMethodSite$PojoCachedMethodSite.invoke(PojoMetaMethodSite.java:189)
   	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PojoMetaMethodSite.call(PojoMetaMethodSite.java:53)
   	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:45)
   	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:108)
   	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:116)
   	at Script12.run(Script12.groovy:5)
   	at com.eviware.soapui.support.scripting.groovy.SoapUIGroovyScriptEngine.run(SoapUIGroovyScriptEngine.java:90)
   	at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.teststeps.WsdlGroovyScriptTestStep.run(WsdlGroovyScriptTestStep.java:141)
   	at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.panels.teststeps.GroovyScriptStepDesktopPanel$RunAction$1.run(GroovyScriptStepDesktopPanel.java:250)
   	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
   	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
   	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Groovy
json
  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    7 years ago

    Hi Scripter,

     

    SoapUI 5.3.0 uses an older version of the JSONPath library (v0.9.1) which does not seem to support the regex match operator (=~).

     

    Try JsonSlurper instead:

    import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
    ...

    def json = new JsonSlurper().parseText(response)
def csvpath = json.Files.find { it.filepath.endsWith(".csv") }.filepath
log.info csvpath
  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    7 years ago

    Scripter,

     

    Looks like you are trying to work it out using JSONPath. But I'am not really good at. Instead here is the solution using Script Assertion for the rest request test step.

     

     

    //Check if the response is not empty
assert context.response, 'Response is empty or null'

def json = new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText(context.response)

//Retrieve the filepath needed
def filePath = json.Files.collect { element -> element.find{it.value.endsWith('csv')} }.findAll{it}.first().value
log.info filePath

     

    You can also try it quickly online demo with the above given json.

  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    7 years ago

    Hi Scripter,

     

    SoapUI 5.3.0 uses an older version of the JSONPath library (v0.9.1) which does not seem to support the regex match operator (=~).

     

    Try JsonSlurper instead:

    import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
    ...

    def json = new JsonSlurper().parseText(response)
def csvpath = json.Files.find { it.filepath.endsWith(".csv") }.filepath
log.info csvpath
    • nmrao's avatar
      nmrao
      Champion Level 3
      7 years ago
      Oh there is already answer while I was scripting. This is good.