Support for development and execution of generic scripts I would appreciate additional support for scripting: - script console to develop and execute generic Groovy/Javascript scripts (similar to G...
Hi Karel,
Thats interesting, you are of course right that the bin/ext approach is less dynamic / agile due to the need for compilation and restart.
I take it you're thinking about something more interactive? Have you seen the pro scripts functionality? That used to poll a /scripts folder and add any changed scripts dynamically into the classpath. This functionality could be replicated in the open source version, but I'm not sure if that would go down well with Smartbear (can't speak for them of course).
As you're probably aware, the key part of using scripted classes on-the-fly is getting them onto the SoapUI classpath without a restart, this is of course doable with a Groovy class loader type approach. Building on this idea, were you seeing some kind of UI functionality to edit/save scripts? Maybe a bit like the current Groovy TestStep, but instead having the ability to save the Groovy classes onto the classpath - I reckon something like this would be doable.
The Groovy console should work fine.
Thanks,
Rupert