For a project we like to use soapui to test a processing pipeline that is deployed to aws using services such as elasticbeanstalk, kinesis streams and s3. We have succeeded to issue REST requests to the beanstalk application however we are puzzling how to read back the "output" in order to compare it with expected test output. A useful/scalable approach would be to integrate the aws-sdk into a script-step so we could for instance query certain cloudwatch loggings or download data from s3 or get notified of certain system activities. But given the fact the google gives us no hits on blogs or examples of any kind we kind of having doubts if this is the right direction. Any tips/guidance on this topic is greatly appreciated,Paul

Hi nmrao, Yeah, sorry I meant Java AWS SDK - this one: https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/ At the time I didn't find it easy to integrate, due to it requiring newer versions of some of the same dependencies that soapui uses in its lib folder - adding the newer versions in the /ext folder lead to classpath issues. However, I expect its possible to succeed if you alter / override some of the SoapUI libs, and Paul may well manage it, its just that I didn't have a lot of time and couldn't really suggest recipes in that cookbook that went too far off the beaten track. Thanks, Rup

Hello Rupert, I was thinking about the external wrapper as well but the downside is then the interface towards that wrapper, in a sense that you will need to think of something support certain arguments etc... and also the results are obviously verbose so you'll need to parse the returned json or whatever you get. It's all overhead in this approach, that is actually the beauty of integrating with the sdk; you'll have 'native' access to the interface of the sdk.... Anyway we are rethinking our approach; soapui does not seem to be a tool for automated component/integration testing which includes reading back/comparing responses and i believe it will be much easier to implement something with plain unittest's in python. You simply import the boto3 (sdk) and it'll work :-) If i may advise on scripting capabilities for soapui....: support Python ;-) If you support the runtimes from a virtualenv you will not have the issue's like dependency hell i have been in; that has been proven to work very well for years... Also it could give soapui a boost since the Python community is very big. Paul

Hi Paul, As part of my SoapUI Cookbook I did a recipe to call AWS APIs from SoapUI O/S. The approach I took was to create a Groovy version of the AWS Python example (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sigv4-signed-request-examples.html#sig-v4-examples-get-query-string), which shows how to construct a signed request without the AWS SDK. This seemed to work pretty well. Initially I tried to integrate the AWS SDK into SoapUI, but found that some of its dependencies (jars) caused classpath issues when added to the /ext folder. Unfortunately I cannot share the Groovy code for copyright reasons, but I can answer questions on it if you think it would be useful. Regards, Rupert

Hello Rupert, Thank you for the response. In fact we already managed to create/sign a raw rest request, but that is obviously not really scaleable. When you intend to do richer stuff you will quickly need to aws cli or aws sdk. Since it does support javascript and there is in fact an aws sdk for javascript it should be possible to use it. I just have no idea how to add those libraries to soapui? Please note i'm a soapui-newbie... soon to become an expert ;-) Paul

In general, the external libraries placed under SOAPUI_HOME/bin/ext are loaded by SoapUI.Hoping that you aware how to change the script language in soapui from Groovy to Javascript.By the way, I know nothing in javascript and not used. You may give try, and update here if possible.

howto invoke aws-sdk to verify results?

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rupert_anderson
Valued Contributor
8 years ago
Hi Paul,

As part of my SoapUI Cookbook I did a recipe to call AWS APIs from SoapUI O/S. The approach I took was to create a Groovy version of the AWS Python example (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sigv4-signed-request-examples.html#sig-v4-examples-get-query-string), which shows how to construct a signed request without the AWS SDK. This seemed to work pretty well.

Initially I tried to integrate the AWS SDK into SoapUI, but found that some of its dependencies (jars) caused classpath issues when added to the /ext folder.

Unfortunately I cannot share the Groovy code for copyright reasons, but I can answer questions on it if you think it would be useful.

Regards,

Rupert
- Paul424
  Occasional Contributor
  8 years ago
  Hello Rupert,
  
  Thank you for the response.
  
  In fact we already managed to create/sign a raw rest request, but that is obviously not really scaleable. When you intend to do richer stuff you will quickly need to aws cli or aws sdk. Since it does support javascript and there is in fact an aws sdk for javascript it should be possible to use it. I just have no idea how to add those libraries to soapui?
  
  Please note i'm a soapui-newbie... soon to become an expert ;-)
  
  Paul
  - nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    8 years ago
    In general, the external libraries placed under SOAPUI_HOME/bin/ext are loaded by SoapUI.
    
    Hoping that you aware how to change the script language in soapui from Groovy to Javascript.
    
    By the way, I know nothing in javascript and not used. You may give try, and update here if possible.

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