Groovy: Read Response using xpath in a soapui property

[TestTestTest]

Hi,

I'm trying to replace the xpath with a soapui parameter that eventually will come from a csv, but errors keep showing up. This is the code.

testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue( "var_xpath_old", "//person/sex/") // will be in a csv

//Response is here

testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue( "var_old", response["//person/sex") //<-- this is where is want to inject var_xpath_old

any ideas?

[HimanshuTayal]

Hi @TestTestTest,

What is 

response["//person/sex"

you mean to say this value you want to retrieve from response and use in another groovy.

If this is the scenario, in your send groovy code use get data to retrieve the value from particular node and use here(using ReadAPI)

If you are using SoapUI, then you can use groovyUtils class to get node value.

[TestTestTest]

Hi,

<quote>response["//person/sex"]</quote> is the xpath to extract te value from the response for the soap call. 

I want to put the text  //person/sex in a csv file so i can create a generic building block so i can use this function wherever i want. 

what i know: 

- //person/sex retrieves the value i want (groovyutils)

what i dont't know

- how to replace the text //person/sex with an input(xpath) from the csv file.

in short

step 1: fill the csv file

----csv file contents

//person/sex

step 2: put csv into array

FIle filereader..etc..

testcase.setproperty("xpath_from_csv", propdata[0])

step3: get the value from the response

testcase.setproperty("sex_from_response", response[$xpath] )     //xpath comes from csv file

Could you help me to replace the response xpath value so i can put this value into a csv file?

thx

[nmrao]

Sorry. unclear.

What are you trying to achieve?
Are you using SOAP with data driven test?
What do you want to do with extracted value from the response?

[TestTestTest · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thanks to another tester we found the solution. I was missing a step.

I was not able to use the ${TestCase#property} due to error messages in the groovy script. 

But is was not aware that you have to declare al local variable first if you want to use the property in the groovy script. So my solution was: 

step 1: fill the csv file

----csv file contents

//person/sex

step 2: put csv into array

FIle filereader..etc..

testcase.setproperty("xpath_from_csv", propdata[0])

step 3: declare the property as a local variable in groovy

xpath =  context.expand ( '${#TestCase#xpath_from_csv} ')

step 4: get the value from the response

testcase.setproperty("sex_from_response", response[$xpath] )     //xpath comes from csv fil

thank for all the help.