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michaelmerrill
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9 years ago

Property Transfer Steps in my jenkins job that runs the maven plugin always fails.

Hello, no matter what, the property transfer step for our tests always have a FAILED status.  We do not see any stack traces.  We are using 4.6.1 version of the maven plugin for SOAP UI.  We are runn...
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michaelmerrill
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9 years ago

I forgot to mention that when the tests are ran within Ready API, or SOAP UI version 5.2.2, the test steps that do the property transfer are OK.

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    michaelmerrill
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    9 years ago

    I printed out the error message the the PropertyTransferTestStep result, and it appears to be an issue with the XML libraries.

     

    14:45:50,013 ERROR [log] Error from test step: com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.teststeps.PropertyTransferException: error: Unexpected element: CDATA

     

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      michaelmerrill
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      9 years ago

      Note that the source for the property transfer is the JSON output of a REST test step.  I am converting it to responseAsXML to see if that fixes the issue.

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        michaelmerrill
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        9 years ago

        Treating the target source as XML, and using XPath solved the issue.  It would be convenient to use JPath and just the response from the target.