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Joe_DuBois
Occasional Contributor
16 years ago

Dynamic Property (Setting properties load filename)

First, tried doing a search, and found the Data Gen step, which it would seem like what I need (I assume that would allow me to input a value when running the Test Case) but we are a Hospital and under the current financial market we are looking at just he plain version.

So what I'm trying to do is set it up so a Test Case can run against different sets of data. This seems to make sense to load the values into properties files, now rather than change the script each time I want to change the properties files, I thought it would make sense to setup a project property "testpropFilename" which I could then use in the properties.load method (below).

But when I try to run it, it gives me no such property.


def properties = new java.util.Properties();
properties.load( new java.io.FileInputStream( "C:/workplace/work/Testing/temp/${testpropFilename}" ));


I've tried defining it at several levels. At the Test Case/properties level, At the Test Suite level, Project level. But still same result, MissingPropertyException "No such property testpropFilename".

Please help
Joe

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  • omatzura's avatar
    omatzura
    Super Contributor
    16 years ago
    Hi Joe

    you need to scope-qualify the property, so if it was defined at a TestCase level the expansion would have to be

    ${#TestCase#testpropFilename}

    or

    ${#TestSuite#testpropFilename}

    if it was at the TestSuite level (not the name of the TestCase/TestSuite, just the literals shown above)

    regards!

    /Ole
    eviware.com
  • Joe_DuBois's avatar
    Joe_DuBois
    Occasional Contributor
    16 years ago
    Ole,

    Thanks a ton for the quick response. I should have caught that. I checked the Properties section under the user guide and noticed the following:

    ${[scope]propertyName[#xpath-expression]}

    So I changed it in the code, which is located under "Setup Script" of my Test Case", but it gives me the following error. I tried a few different things, like moving the variable outside the quotes but that didn't work.

    For example:
    temp/" + ${#TestSuite#testpropFilename} ));

    I also searched the site and net, but only found the following link, which seemed relevant, but didn't help.
    http://groovyinsoapui.wordpress.com/200 ... p-request/


    def properties = new java.util.Properties();
    properties.load( new java.io.FileInputStream( "C:/workplace/work/Testing/temp/${#TestSuite#testpropFilename}" ));




    Error:
    org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed, Script31.groovy: 5: unexpected char: '#' @ line 5, column 81.org.codehaus.groovy.syntax.SyntaxException: unexpected char: '#' @ line 5, column 81. at
    org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.AntlrParserPlugin.parseCST(AntlrParserPlugin.java:78)...
    ...(snipped for brevity)
    ... 38 more 1 error
  • omatzura's avatar
    omatzura
    Super Contributor
    16 years ago
    Hi!

    ok.. groovy can't expand this property, you need to use the context for this;

    def properties = new java.util.Properties();
    properties.load( new java.io.FileInputStream( "C:/workplace/work/Testing/temp/" + context.expand('${#TestSuite#testpropFilename}' )  ));

    regards!

    /Ole
    eviware.com
  • Jan_Stepan's avatar
    Jan_Stepan
    Occasional Contributor
    16 years ago
    I've tried to use the same idea in the test suite setup script with soapUI 2.5.1, e.g.

    def properties = new java.util.Properties();
    ...
    properties.load( new java.io.FileInputStream( "C:/.../Testing/temp/" + context.expand('${#TestSuite#testpropFilename}' ) ));

    I've confirmed my file/path exists, but soapUI says

    java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\...\Testing\temp (Access is denied)

    Any ideas why it may have trouble reading the file?

    It's all on the same PC running XP, and all is same user.
  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    16 years ago
    Hi Jan,


    I'm not sure if you really used three dots in the path '...' or you just wanted to shorten a long path. Probably the latter is the case. At any event, the "Access is denied" is not a soapUI-specific problem. It is specific to your file system which is accessed by Java run-time through Groovy.

    Therefore I would recommend you to google this specific error.

    Please let us know if you have found the solution. You're probably not the only soapUI user experiencing it.


    Cheers!
    /Nenad Nikolic a.k.a. Shonzilla
  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    16 years ago
    Hi!

    just to make sure; you will get this error when running the webstart version, so if you are please try the standalone version instead.

    regards!

    /Ole
    eviware.com
  • Jan_Stepan's avatar
    Jan_Stepan
    Occasional Contributor
    16 years ago
    In my previous post, the "..." were not the actual path just a device in the post.

    I installed the stand alone version but still have the same problem. I wondering if there is something I need to import/include to make the script work.

    BTW there is no file access error when I do something like

    findwindowsProperties.load( new java.io.FileInputStream( "C:/Temp/Properties.txt" ));

    It is something with how I'm using the context.expand.
  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    16 years ago
    Hello!

    To make sure that the file path once expanded is correct, you can try using


    log.info("C:/.../Testing/temp/" + context.expand("${#TestSuite#testpropFilename}"));


    (modify the path to suit you)

    And check the Groovy log. If the String generated by this is the same as what you were statically feeding into FileInputStream, I see no reason why one would work and the other wouldn't. If they differ, maybe this will help you diagnose the problem more specifically. Good luck!

    Regards,
    Dain
    eviware.com
  • Jan_Stepan's avatar
    Jan_Stepan
    Occasional Contributor
    16 years ago
    Using the debug I found the load command was only picking up the folder/directory.

    Once I changed the load command syntax to include the file name in the path I was able to load the properties. E.g.


    properties.load( new java.io.FileInputStream( "C:/folderPath/testpropFilename" + context.expand('${#TestSuite#testpropFilename}' ) ));


    The file name was missing in Ole's example "Posted on: December 05, 2008, 05:21:39 pm".  Did I find a bug or did Ole make a typo? I suspect my issue was not related to the web-start or stand-alone version. although I've not re-tried with the web-start version.


    Afterwards, I was able to assign them by modifying your User guide example


    // assign all properties
    def names = properties.propertyNames();
    while( names.hasMoreElements() )
    {
       def name = names.nextElement();
       testRunner.testCase.testSuite.setPropertyValue( name, properties.getProperty( name ));
    }