Adding test case via Groovy - Problem using project vars for endpoint?

Hi,

I am trying to programmatically add a test case.  The beginning of my code looks like:

Import static com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.teststeps.registry.HttpRequestStepFactory.HTTPREQUEST_TYPE
//Provide the http request endpoint in the below
def endpoint = 'http://google.com'
//Valid http method GET | PUT | POST | DELETE etc
def method = 'POST'
def stepName = 'httpRequestStep4'
def tc=testRunner.testCase
//Adds http request step to given test case assumes tc is valid object of TestCase
tc.addTestStep(HTTPREQUEST_TYPE , stepName, endpoint, method)

However, we have project variables for the endpoint, and would like to use that, so I changed the "def endpoint" to:

def endpoint = '${#Project#target}/restman/1.0'

But then, the endpoint in the new test step ended up being:

http:///${#Project#target}/restman/1.0/

instead of just:

${#Project#target}/restman/1.0/

How can I set the endpoint to the correct one, the one that does not have the extra "http:///" in front of it?

Thanks!

Jim