SoapUI Mock Service Transfer Multiple Nodes - groovy

Question

I am in a pickle.
I feel there is a simple solution to what I want to achieve, but I am at a loss to how to go about it.
Basically, I am standing up some mock Soap services.
I want to echo back an update call with that which is passed in.
My request looks like this:
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Header xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"/>
<soap:Body>
<ns2:setEvents xmlns:ns2="http://example.com/eventingservices" xmlns:ns3="http://example.com/eventing/sdo">
<setEventsRequest>
<SystemCode>ABC</SystemCode>
<Event>
<EventTypeCode>01</EventTypeCode>
</Event>
<Event>
<EventTypeCode>04</EventTypeCode>
</Event>
</setEventsRequest>
</ns2:SetEvents>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
I then want to simply transfer the list of Events to the response. They have the same attributes as the request.
A typical response, would look like this:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Header xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"/>
<soapenv:Body>
<qu:setEventsResponse xmlns:qu="http:/example.com/eventingServices">
<setEventsResponse>
<Event>
<EventTypeCode>01</EventTypeCode>
</Event>
<Event>
<EventTypeCode>04</EventTypeCode>
</Event>
</setEventsResponse>
</qu:setEventsResponse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
I tried using the following Groovy script, replacing the Events in the response with ${events}:
def groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils(context)
def holder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder(mockRequest.requestContent)
def events = String.valueOf(holder.getNodeValues("//Event"))
context.setProperty("events", events);
I also tried the above without doing the string of. To no avail.
Please please help me.
I'll buy you a beer if I can get this damned thing to work!

Answer 1

I suppose that you have a mock service in SOAPUI configured as follows.
Operation with a response similar to:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Header xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"/>
<soapenv:Body>
<setEventsResponse xmlns="http:/example.com/eventingServices">
<setEventsResponse>
${events}
</setEventsResponse>
</setEventsResponse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
And on the onRequestScript tab of your mockService you want to have the necessary script to get the <Event> nodes from the request and put it in the response using ${events} property. To do so, I recommend that you can use XmlSlurper as follows:
import groovy.xml.StreamingMarkupBuilder
// parse the request
def reqSlurper = new XmlSlurper().parseText(mockRequest.requestContent)
// find all 'Event' nodes from request
def events = reqSlurper.depthFirst().findAll { it.name() == 'Event' }
// builder to convert the nodes to string
def smb = new StreamingMarkupBuilder()
// concatenate in the string all "<Event>" nodes from request
def eventAsString = ''
events.each{
eventAsString += smb.bindNode(it)
}
// set the property to use in the response
context.setProperty("events", eventAsString);
That's all to make it work :).
Additionally note that there are some mistakes in you xmls. The request in your question is not well formed: </ns2:SetEvents> not close <ns2:setEvents> (note uppercase), and if you want that xmlns:ns2="http://example.com/eventingservices" namespace applies to all childs of <SetEvents> you have to add ns2 to all the child nodes or remove the ns2 to make it default for this subtree:<SetEvents xmlns="http://example.com/eventingservices">` (this applies also for your response)
Hope it helps,