DataSource Inner/Outer Loop possibility

Hi Desmond,

this will be fixed in the upcoming release, for now you will have to "finish" the inner datasource manually, please try the following groovy script:

def dataSourceStep = testRunner.testCase.testSteps["Innert DataSource"]
dataSourceStep.finish( testRunner, context )

Hope this helps!

regards,

/Ole
eviware.com

Hi Ole...

Worked a treat...Many thanks.....just surprised nobody has asked for this before !

Desmond.

omatzura wrote:
Hi Desmond, this will be fixed in the upcoming release, for now you will have to "finish" the inner datasource manually, please try the following groovy script: def dataSourceStep = testRunner.testCase.testSteps["Innert DataSource"] dataSourceStep.finish( testRunner, context ) Hope this helps! regards, /Ole eviware.com

I have a need to reset a datasource as well.  I need it to create an initial batch of objects, then need to recycle it later on for a continous loop of adding/removing (stress testing) a group containing all of the initially created objects.

As teststep 1, I have "Unit Datasource" defined to pull data from Excel and populate a bunch of property values.

I then, after my initial batch of object additions, have this as my groovy script:

def dataSourceStep = testRunner.testCase.testSteps["Unit DataSource"]
dataSourceStep.finish( testRunner, context )

Perhaps there's more code I need to add before/after those lines?  Anyway, the error I get when that step is reached:

Thu May 29 12:32:18 EDT 2008:ERROR:java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke method finish() on null object

What do I need to do?  I'm evaluating soapUI Pro - looks really promising for what we need to do - so I'm still figuring all this stuff out and am probably making all sorts of beginner mistakes.

Hi,

this error indicates that the dataSourceStep variable is null, it seems you have either misspelled the name of the Inner DataSource step, or are using an older release where you need to use testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName( "..." ) instead!?

regards,

/Ole
eviware.com

If I use:

def dataSourceStep = testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName("Unit DataSource")
dataSourceStep.finish( testRunner, context )

It results in the same error:

Thu May 29 14:59:02 EDT 2008:ERROR:java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke method finish() on null object

Are those the only two lines required in the groovy code test step?

Note that I'm not using an inner and outer (ie: two) datasource.. just the one datasource which I want to reset to the start for reuse.

I'm using soapUI 2.0.2 Pro TRIAL.

Update.

So I got it to work using:

def dataSourceStep = testRunner.testCase.getTestStepAt(0)
dataSourceStep.finish( testRunner, context )

Weird that it wouldn't work using the name, isn't it?  Note... the datasource name I actually had in the groovy code is longer (25 chars)... name has been changed to protect the guilty (but it was spelled correctly in the reference... I actually cut and pasted it to make sure!)

Hi!

hmm.. did the name contain any "special" characters?

/ole
eviware.com

Not a one.

Good Morning!

Do you have any other thoughts on this?  While it works using the teststep reference, it's annoying to have to change it if I change the order of test steps.

Hi,

no.. hmm.. can you mail me your soapUI Project (ole@eviware.com) so I can see if I can reproduce this?

regards!

/Ole
eviware.com