Re: relative reference to a project in the workspace xml

Hi!

soapUI 2.5 has a "WorkspaceDir" project at the bottom left (when selecting the Workspace node in the navigator), if you set its value to ${workspaceDir}, project paths should be saved related to path of workspace file..

regards!

/Ole
eviware.com

thanks a lot!
actually the specific "workspace property" is called "projectRoot" and should be set as you suggested: ${workspaceDir}

My Problem is a bit beyond the one of the OP (as I did discover that setting on my own  )

But what I need is relative paths in the project files themselves.

When I manually change the following settings to relative paths

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file:/../../PATHTOWADL

and all other references to the WADL (although I'm not sure this is required)

everything still works fine.

On shutdown of SoapUI it then overwrites at least the . with an absolute path again, which is a bit of a nuisance.

Is there an option that enforces relative paths within the project files for the above mentioned paths ?

Background: Project files are required to work on different machines where the structure is identical but just the location is different.

kind regards

René

Hi!

the "Resource Root" property on the Project level is for this; set it to ${projectDir} and all paths in the project (property files, wadl/wsdls, etc..) should be relative to the project file directory.

regards!

/Ole
eviware.com

I have this actually set to $(projectDir), but still have some absolute references in the project file.

ABSOLUTEPATH TO OLD LOCATION HERE



file:/ABSOLUETPATHTOWSDLHERE

That threw my off, but it seems it is working anyway.

Hi,

these are "internal" and shouldn't pose any problems.. let me know otherwise!

regards,

/ole
eviware.com

Will they be a problem if the project is put under source code control?
If I use a "composite project" and I check in (say) settings.xml, won't my
"internal" absolute pathnames conflict with others?

Likewise, if I select certain filenames using a file dialog, all the pathnames are absolute.
How can I get them to be relative.

Finally, all the property browsers (project, endpoint, request, etc) present the file paths
as absolute. How do I know if they've been specified as relative?

If configured correctly, the file dialog will create relative paths.

If configured correctly, the variables like ${projectDir} will be preserved.

Absolute pathnames are really absolute.

I needed to save my project after making changes. That's why I got confused.