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maxrussell
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10 years ago

Prefix a property transfer in header

I am using a property transfer to take an oAuth access_token from a response and transfer it to my next GET REST request. The header Name is "Authorization" and the value needs to be in the format "B...
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  • maxrussell's avatar
    maxrussell
    10 years ago

    I'll write my own response to this:

     

    Bearer ${[Test Step name]#ResponseAsXML#[Xpath xpression]}

     

    Does not work.

     

    Instead, I needed to use a property transfer to Properties, where I stored acctok and then an appropriate header in my request:

    Bearer ${acctok}

     

    I would be interested to see how the ResponseAsXML#XPath Expression method works, but I couldn't get it to do so.

     

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kondasamy
Regular Contributor

There are various possibilities to do this ! and I would like you to share an easy approach which I usually follow using SoapUI's property expansion feature. Just assume you need to transfer a spcific value (value of token tag) from response XML of [Source TestStep] to a header parameter of  [Target TestStep], then under the particular parameter pass the value as below,

 

Bearer ${Source TestStep#ResponseAsXml#//OAuthResponse[1]/token[1]}

 So, the test step would look like as in the below pic.

 

OAuth.png

 

The same approach could even be applied for Property Transfer test step as well. Hope this answers your question! Here are few references too,

http://www.robert-nemet.com/2011/06/soapui-working-with-properties.html

http://www.soapui.org/scripting---properties/property-expansion.html

 

Thanks,

Samy

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maxrussell
Contributor
10 years ago

Should specifically have mentioned - I am dealing with a JSON type response.

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    kondasamy
    Regular Contributor
    10 years ago

    Even if the response is JSON, SoapUI supports XPath for the JSON content trasforming them to XML internally; since we are using ResponseAsXml which does the conversion internally,

    Bearer ${Source TestStep#ResponseAsXml#//OAuthResponse[1]/token[1]}

    So, the above property expansion script will work regardless of being a JSON response.

     

    Thanks,

    Samy

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      maxrussell
      Contributor
      10 years ago


      I have a property transfer that contains the term access_token.
      In the second request (Get All Project Details) I have the header Bearer ${Source ObtainAuthTok1#ResponseAsXML#//access_token} in the request.

      When this runs, the desired token is placed into the Authorization field, but it is not prefixed with Bearer.

       

      I am a bit confused by this process.

      • kondasamy's avatar
        kondasamy
        Regular Contributor
        10 years ago

        To clearly make a note, Propety transfer step is not at all needed as you are directly referencing it through Property expansion feature. I will just reiterate in the required format needed for this operation,

        Bearer ${[Test Step name]#ResponseAsXML#[Xpath xpression]}

         

        I suspect that you might have to correct the XPath expression; please check! This should work; as I see desired result from my end!

         

        Thanks,

        Samy