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pmartin73
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago
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Validation of SOAP-Encoded messages is not supported

I'm trying to use SOAPUI to determine if the response I'm getting back from a SOAP API is consistent with its own WSDL schema. Why is SOAPUI not able to do this?

 

Attached are the response and the WSDL.

  • richie's avatar
    richie
    5 years ago
    Hey pmartin73,

    Ah...i understand. So the assertion is having an issue, right?
    Ok. I did abit of googling. It seems this can occur if the content of the .wsdl is erroneous. I dont mean malformed or invalid, i mean erroneous relative to certain attribute values used.
    There is an "encoding" attribute that if set illegally (illegally relative to the SOAP message layer protocol) then this will cause the assertion to fail with the response you are seeing.

    Theres a stackoverflow link that may help -->>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24411468/error-validation-of-soap-encoded-messages-not-supported/44848162

    Theres alao another link with a lot more low level info that could help -->> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMKHH_10.0.0/com.ibm.etools.mft.doc/bc19050_.htm

    In summary. Theres a problem with the wsdl and until you fix the issue youll keep getting this if you try using the schema assertion or even probably any SOAP related assertion as the wsdl content breaks the SOAP rules in some way.

    Hope this helps!

    Ta

    Rich


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  • richie's avatar
    richie
    Community Hero
    5 years ago
    Hey pmartin73,

    SoapUI does support what youre asking, can you clarify exactly what youre trying to do and the steps youre doing to do this please? I want to make sure i understand exactly what you need.

    Ta

    Rich
    • pmartin73's avatar
      pmartin73
      Occasional Contributor
      5 years ago

      Thanks for asking, Rich! I'm trying to do what is outlined https://www.soapui.org/docs/soap-and-wsdl/validating-soap-services/, and receiving the error which is the subject of my original post:

       

      Given a soap response message and a WSDL file, I just want to validate that the response message complies with the WSDL.

       

      Zip file containing response message and WSDL attached.

      • richie's avatar
        richie
        Community Hero
        5 years ago
        Hey pmartin73,

        Ok. So seems straightforward. How did you add in the .wsdl to soapui....did you create an empty project and add in the soap services manually or did you create the project from the .wsdl itself? If you created the project against the .wsdl itself, then this auto generates the different soap operations and even adds testcases.

        When testing a soap service i always create the project from the .wsdl...it makes it a lot easier. Once that is done, create your testsuite, testcase and add the soap teststep in (which is actually a child of the relevant soap operation you select) and if you do this, it dynamically generate the payload content of the request.

        When you add in the soap teststep after selecting the correct operation there should be a window/form generated for the soap test step whicj includes a checkbox entitled 'Add schema assertion (adds validatiom that response complies with schema).

        Make any other alterations you require to payload content and thats it. Submit the request and the response is checked against the schema referenced or imported via the .wsdl.

        Or instead of editing the settings when you create the step you can also just add in a schema compliance assertion..this will do the same.

        Thats it.

        Nice one

        Rich