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fa
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

XmlSlurper/XmlParser to store data from HTML content

Hello,   I am a new user of SoapUI community version (5.0.0). I need to store the action value from the (HTML) response (below):   <html> <head> <meta content="HTML Tidy for Java (vers....
  • PaulMS's avatar
    PaulMS
    7 years ago

    SoapUI has already converted HTML to standard XML format (with closed tags). By changing the script to responseContentAsXml you could get the action value

     

    import groovy.util.XmlSlurper;

def response = messageExchange.responseContentAsXml;
def slurper = new XmlSlurper();
def xmldata = slurper.parseText response;

    def action = xmldata.body.form.@action
    log.info action

     

     

JHunt's avatar
JHunt
Community Hero
7 years ago

Sorry, I'm editing this post because I was way off.

 

It looks like HTML is not a true subset of XML, and some HTML tags are invalid when read as XML.

 

Even as far as saying that in HTML input tags must NOT be closed, but it is illegal not to close them in XML.

 

This might be useful to you:

http://www.frommknecht.net/robust-html-parsing-the-groovy-way/

 

Edit again: This might still be of use to you...

 

def html = '''
    <html><head><title>201 Created</title></head>
    <body><h1>TGT Created</h1><form action="URI" method="POST">
    Service:<input value="" name="service" type="text">
    <br/>
    <input value="Submit" type="submit"></form></body></html>
'''
def matches = html =~ /.*form action\=\"([^\"]*)\".*/
matches.find()
assert matches.group(1) == 'URI'
  • PaulMS's avatar
    PaulMS
    Super Contributor
    7 years ago

    SoapUI has already converted HTML to standard XML format (with closed tags). By changing the script to responseContentAsXml you could get the action value

     

    import groovy.util.XmlSlurper;

def response = messageExchange.responseContentAsXml;
def slurper = new XmlSlurper();
def xmldata = slurper.parseText response;

    def action = xmldata.body.form.@action
    log.info action

     

     

    • fa's avatar
      fa
      Occasional Contributor
      7 years ago

      Hello Paul.

       

      With this groovy expression, I managed to retrieve the content value of the action parameter!

      Thank you very much!