View a PDF in SOAPUI?
Hi all, I'm quite new to SOAPUI and I've created a test that calls a service to return a receipt. The receipt is returned as a PDF. As far as I can tell we can't display that PDF in SOAPUI? C...
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Hi,
This is an interesting question...
Whilst SoapUI can send PDF files as attachments as part of SOAP attachments, as far as I am aware I don't think any of the versions can actually display PDF responses..
Presumably you would actually also like to query document properties / do assertions on the PDF response?
(unless someone else can jump in with a solution)
My thoughts on doing this would be:
- Use a Groovy TestStep to get the response data and build a PDF document object using some kind of PDF library e.g. IText. Presumably it would then be possible to dump it to file / test it with Assertions.
- Write a SoapUI plugin to do something similar. This would probably be more complicated, but possibly allow you (with sufficient effort) to customize the way SoapUI deals with the response.
Of course this isn't a direct answer to your problem, but if I can find the time I'd be happy to discuss / work on it together if you're interested?
Cheers,
Rup
Hi Rupert,
Many thanks for your response. I figured that would be the case.
I might have a look at the SOAPUI plugin route, a couple of the developers here are itching to get writing something like that so I may work jointly with them on this.
Kind Regards,
Paul
Hi Paul,
No problem, I reckon it's an interesting topic!
In terms of actually viewing a PDF e.g. when the response content type is application/pdf, then I thought creating a new response tab might be the nicest solution. Although I think this would probably be best done as a feature request i.e. change to the source code, and may not actually be doable as a plugin.. but this was just my take on what you wanted, there are many other ways to view the PDF with a bit of coding!
Good luck with whatever you choose to do and let me know if you need any help / suggestions, might experiment with the script route myself.... Probably others will want what you develop, will lookout for your plugin in the plugin library! :-)
Cheers,
Rup
