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DW's avatar
DW
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

CDATA problems with special characters

We have a 3rd party application that is returning the results within a CDATA string. I need to be able to get one of the tags in there (strQuoteNo) and then pass it for use in another request message...
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JHunt
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You can use a Groovy Script test step instead of a property transfer.

 

First get hold of the response Xml:

 

String xml = testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName('someEarlierTestStep')
 .httpRequest.response.responseContent

Get the data we want:

 

String CDATA = new XmlSlurper().parseText(xml)
 .Body.rootIssueQuoteRequest.text()
 
String myInnerStrQuoteNo = new XmlSlurper().parseText(CDATA)
 .Header.strQuoteNo.text()

Then to make the script act like a property transfer, use something like:

 

testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("someProp", myInnerStrQuoteNo)

 

DW's avatar
DW
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

Thanks for that. I tried it and it's reporting

 

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; Premature end of file for this line:

String myInnerStrQuoteNo = new XmlSlurper().parseText(CDATA)

 

I did try changing a few bits but I don't know the language that well so just ended up getting different errors of just nothing at all in the variable