How to skip/ignore Envelope & Header when comparing two Soap(XML) responses

[PrathapR]

Hi all,

I'm trying to compare and find the differences between two soap(XML) responses usning groovy (help of xmlunit or some other approaches),  I can able to do partially(Nodes and attributes) but I cannot able to skip intial/last lines(Header and Body). Would like to skip those as per requirement, if those are not equal as well.

Response1:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soapenv:Body>

************** (Nodes and Attributes, I can able to comare)

</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Response2:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Header/>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>

************** (Nodes and Attributes, I can able to comare)

</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Please help me if anyone have any idea.

Thanks in advance

[nmrao]

Based on your request, it appears that you have tried something. Please show that which will help.

[PrathapR]

Thank you for your response @nmrao  ,

Used below code

resXML1 = xmlParser.parse("C:\\TestCase_TC1_JS.xml")
resXML2 = xmlParser.parse("C:\\TestCase_TC2_KS.xml")
resXML11 = XmlUtil.serialize(resXML1)
resXML22 = XmlUtil.serialize(resXML2)

//Compare two Responses
//assert(resXML22 == resXML11) : "Res1 Doesn't Match with Res2"

diff = new Diff(resXML22, resXML11)

XMLUnit.setIgnoreComments(Boolean.TRUE);
XMLUnit.setNormalizeWhitespace(Boolean.TRUE); //Ignore WhiteSpace
XMLUnit.setIgnoreDiffBetweenTextAndCDATA(Boolean.TRUE); //Ignore Text and CDATA
XMLUnit.setIgnoreAttributeOrder(Boolean.TRUE); //Ignore Attribute Order

try {
log.info (diff.similar());
log.info(diff.identical());
DetailedDiff detDiff = new DetailedDiff(diff);

detDiff.overrideElementQualifier(new ElementNameAndAttributeQualifier());
detDiff.overrideElementQualifier(new RecursiveElementNameAndTextQualifier());
List differences = detDiff.getAllDifferences();
for (Object object : differences) {
Difference difference = (Difference)object;
log.info("***********************");
log.error(difference);
log.info("***********************");
}

} catch (SAXException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

Also used/tried  from your git code

https://github.com/nmrao/groovyScripts/blob/master/compare/CompareWithIgnoreElements.groovy

but in this I can able to ignore nodes and attributes. not bale to do the above mentioned lines.

[nmrao]

What happened when you tried the code from above git link ?

[nmrao]

By the way, if you provide sample data (need not be the same, but same xml structure), that would be helpful.

[PrathapR]

@nmrao When I tried from above git link, I can able to Ignore/Skip nodes and attributes but not able to skip Header and Body lines.

[nmrao]

Then only body should be compared instead of entire message.

[PrathapR]

Sure, Thank you!