Having trouble with property transfer

[johngregg]

All,

I'm on SoapUI 5.0.0.

I'm having trouble with property transfers. I've read the docs but still don't get it.

All I want to do is set a session id to be reused in multiple test steps. I know I want to generate the id with ${=UUID.randomUUID().toString()}. Assigning that to a test case property causes that literal value (${=UUID.randomUUID().toString()}) to be inserted anywhere I reference it, such as in each test step with ${#session_id}. When that happens, I get a unique guid each time when I really want the same guid over and over.

I know this should be super easy but I'm not getting it.

thanks

[sairamau]

Call ${=UUID.randomUUID().toString()} once
Then save the response in another property
And then Reuse the newly created property in your further test steps

[nmrao]

Another way to set it a property, so that you would be able to access it from the rest of the steps is:
Have a groovy script with the following line

testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue('GENERATED_ID', UUID.randomUUID().toString())

In the test request step where you required the property use as below

<some_request_element>${#TestCase#GENERATED_ID}</some_request_element>

In order to use above variable in another groovy step of the same test case is:

testRuner.testCase.getProperty('GENERATRED_ID')
//OR
context.expand('${#TestCase#GENERATED_ID}')