I am using SoapUI to test webservices. The following string (in xml format) is my request:
<Request>
<AC>
<AssetID>1</AssetID>
<Asset_Name>ABC</Asset_Name>
<Asset_Number>1</Asset_Number>
</AC>
<AC>
<AssetID>2</AssetID>
<Asset_Name>XYZ</Asset_Name>
<Asset_Number>2</Asset_Number>
</Ac>
</Request>
I am using the following code in a groovy script to extract value of Asset_Number for each AC (The above xml string is stored in variable strRequest):
def x = new XmlSlurper().parseText("$strRequest")
x.AC.each { AC ->
assetNum = AC."Asset_Number"
<<do something with the assetNum>>
}
However, I wish to parameterize the above code to pick up Asset_Number for various types of assets (e.g. AC, Peripheral etc). The request xml for each asset is in the same format as above. If I replace 'AC' with variable name 'requestName' in above code:
//strRequest = xml request
def requestName //I will pick up value for this from a test case property
def x = new XmlSlurper().parseText("$strRequest")
x.(requestName.toString()).each { requestName ->
assetNum = requestName."Asset_Number"
<<do something with the assetNum>>
}
it shows the following error:
org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed: Script166.groovy: 35: The current scope already contains a variable of the name requestName # line 35, column 2. { ^ org.codehaus.groovy.syntax.SyntaxException: The current scope already contains a variable of the name requestName
I have tried a solution mentioned in another post Using a String as code with Groovy XML Parser, but it doesn't serve my purpose.
Any other ideas?
You can use
x."$requestName".each
Why XmlSlurper? In SoapUI you can use XmlHolder
import com.eviware.soapui.support.XmlHolder
def responseHolder = new XmlHolder(messageExchange.getResponseContentAsXml())
def resultFromResponse = responseHolder["here_is_your_xpath"]
assert someExpectedResult == resultFromResponse
And if you need to iterate via multiple xml nodes
resultFromResponse.each
{
assert result == resultFromResponse
}
Related
I have a simple python app and i'm trying to combine bunch of output messages to standardize output to the user. I've created a properties file for this, and it looks similar to the following:
[migration_prepare]
console=The migration prepare phase failed in {stage_name} with error {error}!
email=The migration prepare phase failed while in {stage_name}. Contact support!
slack=The **_prepare_** phase of the migration failed
I created a method to handle fetching messages from a Properties file... similar to:
def get_msg(category, message_key, prop_file_location="messages.properties"):
""" Get a string from a properties file that is utilized similar to a dictionary and be used in subsequent
messaging between console, slack and email communications"""
message = None
config = ConfigParser()
try:
dataset = config.read(prop_file_location)
if len(dataset) == 0:
raise ValueError("failed to find property file")
message = config.get(category, message_key).replace('\\n', '\n') # if contains newline characters i.e. \n
except NoOptionError as no:
print(
f"Bad option for value {message_key}")
print(f"{no}")
except NoSectionError as ns:
print(
f"There is no section in the properties file {prop_file_location} that contains category {category}!")
print(f"{ns}")
return f"{message}"
The method returns the F string fine, to the calling class. My question is, in the calling class if the string in my properties file contains text {some_value} that is intended to be interpolated by the compiler in the calling class using an F String with curly brackets, why does it return a string literal? The output is literal text, not the interpolated value I expect:
What I get The migration prepare phase failed while in {stage_name} stage. Contact support!
What I would like The migration prepare phase failed while in Reconciliation stage. Contact support!
I would like the output from the method to return the interpolated value. Has anyone done anything like this?
I am not sure where you define your stage_name but in order to interpolate in config file you need to use ${stage_name}
Interpolation in f-strings and configParser files are not the same.
Update: added 2 usage examples:
# ${} option using ExtendedInterpolation
from configparser import ConfigParser, ExtendedInterpolation
parser = ConfigParser(interpolation=ExtendedInterpolation())
parser.read_string('[example]\n'
'x=1\n'
'y=${x}')
print(parser['example']['y']) # y = '1'
# another option - %()s
from configparser import ConfigParser, ExtendedInterpolation
parser = ConfigParser()
parser.read_string('[example]\n'
'x=1\n'
'y=%(x)s')
print(parser['example']['y']) # y = '1'
I don't know hardly anything about XML. I have successfully gotten a SOAP response (using things like SOAPUi and Boomerang) from an asmx web service. It's a large file.
Now I need to get it to regular delimited columns. Is there a simple way to do this?
My file is attached here
Not sure if it is required one time transformation or do this job quite frequently.
So, adding the answer here with some more details.
Approach #1: Using on-line
As mentioned in the comments, you can use the on-line site to convert your xml data into csv.
Even it requires to do some pre-process with the message / response that you have i.e.,
save the data into file
remove headers or unwanted data etc or make it ready to be usable in the above mentioned online site.
The disadvantages in this approaches
requires some manual work
expose data on public, but at times may be possible to share
time taking
can not use it an automated fashion
difficult to repeat
Approach #2: Using Groovy Script
So, this approach addresses the disadvantages of #1 approach.
Here is the Groovy Script which reads previous soap request step's response, and gives the data into a csv file.
In your test case, add a new groovy script test step right after the soap request step which gives you the data and copy below script content into it. i.e., (Test Case -> Step 1: Soap Request where you are getting responseStep 2: Groovy Script (with below script))
Add a test case custom property, say OUTPUT_FILE_NAME and provide the file path for csv to be saved at. Even, if you do not provide this property, it will automatically saves the csv file chargedata.csv under System temp directory.
You may find the comments in-line
/**
* this script will read the previous step response
* extract the cdata at the given xpath
* read all the records and transfroms into csv file
**/
import com.eviware.soapui.support.XmlHolder
import groovy.xml.*
/**Define the output file name in test case custom property say OUTPUT_FILE_NAME and value as absolute file path
* otherwise, it write a file chargedata.csv in system temp directory
**/
def outputFileName = context.testCase.getPropertyValue('OUTPUT_FILE_NAME') ?: System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir")+ '/chargedata.csv'
//csv field separator - change it if needed
def delimiter = ','
/**
* Below statement will fetch the previous request step response.
*/
def response = context.testCase.testStepList[context.currentStepIndex - 1].testRequest.response.responseContent
//Create the xml holder object to get the xpath value which cdata in this case
def responseHolder = new XmlHolder(response)
def xpath = '//*:Charges_FileResponse/*:Charges_FileResult'
//Get the cdata part from above xpath which is a string
def data = responseHolder.getNodeValue(xpath)
//This again parses the xml inside of cdata
def chargeRecords = new XmlParser().parseText(data)
//This is going hold all the data from ChargeRecords
def chargeRecordsDataStructure = []
//This is to hold all the headers
def headers = [] as Set
/**
* This is to create Charge data
**/
def buildChargeDataStructure = { charge ->
def chargeDataStructure = new Expando()
charge.children().each {
def elementName = it.name()
def elementText = it.value().join()
chargeDataStructure[elementName] = elementText
//Add to field name to the list if not already added
(elementName in headers) ?: headers << elementName
}
chargeDataStructure
}
/**
* this is to create a csv row in string format
**/
def createRow = { recordDataStructure ->
def row = new StringBuffer()
headers.each {
if (row) {
row += delimiter + recordDataStructure[it] ?: ''
} else {
row += recordDataStructure[it] ?: ''
}
}
row.toString()+'\n'
}
//Build the whole data structure of Charge Records
chargeRecords.Charge.each { charge ->
chargeRecordsDataStructure << buildChargeDataStructure( charge )
}
//Build the rows
def rows = new StringBuffer()
rows << headers.join(',') +'\n'
chargeRecordsDataStructure.each { rows << createRow (it)}
//Write the rows into file
new File(outputFileName).text = rows
in soapui my project is :
Project
|__Datasource
|__request
|__groovy_code
|__DatasourceLoop
My Datasource contains 100 lines, each one is a request with different parameters.
My groovy_code save the id from the response of the request.
When i run my project, it executes 100 requests without errors.
groovy_code save only the first id.
What i want is to save id for each request, so 100 ids in different variables at project level
Here is my groovy_code:
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
def response = context.expand( '${login#Response#declare namespace ns1=\'https://elsian/ns/20110518\'; //ns1:login_resp[1]/ns1:item[1]/ns1:response[1]}' )
def slurper = new JsonSlurper()
def result = slurper.parseText(response)
log.info result.data.id
testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.setPropertyValue("token_id", result.data.id)
Thank you for your help
I never use SOAPUI PRO and I don't have access to datasource testStep or even datasource loop.
However based on the project structure you're showing I suppose that for each time datasource loop founds a element in datasource it sends the flow to request step so request and groovy steps are executed on each iteration; due to this I think that the problem is that your groovy code is overriding each time the same property with a new value.
Then to solve this you can try adding some variable suffix to your property name to avoid override each time the property value. For example you can add to token_id string a counter, some uuid, current ms etc.
For example you can use a counter as a suffix. To keep the counter value you've to save it in the context variable, this way this property are shared between your tests inside the current execution:
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
// create a suffix function to generate
// the suffixs for your property names based on a count
def getSuffixNameProperty = {
// check if already exists
if(context['count']){
// if exists simply add 1
context['count']++
}else{
// if not exists initialize the counter
context['count'] = 1
}
return context['count']
}
def propertyName = "token_id" + getSuffixNameProperty();
def response = context.expand( '${login#Response#declare namespace ns1=\'https://elsian/ns/20110518\'; //ns1:login_resp[1]/ns1:item[1]/ns1:response[1]}' )
def slurper = new JsonSlurper()
def result = slurper.parseText(response)
testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.setPropertyValue(propertyName, result.data.id)
I've this code by which I am trying to set the value of a Key (a json node id). But its not setting the value. Log.info statement is showing right values.
Key= context.expand( '${#Project#key}' )
Value= context.expand( '${#Project#value}' )
Binding binding = new Binding()
binding.setVariable("v", "$Value")
binding.setVariable("k", "$Key")
log.info(binding.getVariable("v")) // gives me the value 1234
log.info(binding.getVariable("k")) // gives me the value request.id
def SetKey = new GroovyShell(binding).evaluate( "k=v")
Can someone please comment on whats wrong in this code. and how can I correct it.
Edit: Explanation of the issue
In SoapUI I've some json nodes saved in data source like this request.id and request.app.id and there expected values in Value column which I am fetching through Key and Value above. I am hoping to change the value of a json node to its respective value at run time. So for each iteration of data source, it should set the correct value of that particular json node. Befor the above code I've parsed my json request by json slurper and after the above code I am building the json again by Json builder and running the request. Parsing and running the request works fine, its just that I couldnt set the value of the json node.
If your keys are just dotted names, you could simply use some string manipulation, no need to involve the Groovy parser.
For example, if they all begin with request:
def steps = Key.split(/\./)
if (steps.size() < 2 || steps[0] != 'request') {
throw ...
}
def obj = request
if (steps.size() > 2) {
steps[1..-2].each {
obj = obj[it]
}
}
obj[steps[-1]] = Value
I'm just getting started with Groovy/Grails
I noticed the error messages you get when you validate a form look like this:
Property [{0}] of class [{1}] cannot be blank
For example this code to dump the errors to the console
s.errors.allErrors.each
{
println it.defaultMessage
}
Now, it.arguments contains the arguments that need to be filled in here.
The problem is, I can't find any method in the Grails or Groovy documentation that formats strings based on positional parameters like {0}, {1} and substitutes values from an array
I need something like python's %
What is the proper way to format these error strings so the parameters get substituted properly?
These markers are actually replaced using the standard java.text.MessageFormat APIs. If you display the messages using Grail's g:message tag, it will fill in the gaps if you pass a suitable args="..." attribute:
<g:message code="mymessagecode" args="${['size', 'org.example.Something']}"/>
Under certain circumstances (within GSP pages and from controllers IIRC) you cann call the tag like a function:
g.message(code:'mymessagecode',args: ['size', 'org.example.Something'])
Note, that the value to supply as message code is only a symbolic string constant. The actual translation (the message text with the "gaps" in it) will be read by the framework using Spring's reloadable resource bundles.
If all you actually have is a translation text, you can call the message formatting APIs directly. See for example:
import java.text.MessageFormat
...
args = ["english"].toArray()
println(MessageFormat.format("Translation into {0}", args))
// Or - as the method is variadic:
println(MessageFormat.format("Translation into {0}", "english"))
Look what Groovy can do for you, using a little bit of meta-programming.
MessagesBundle_en_US.properties:
greetings = Hello {0}.
inquiry = {0}: How are you {1}?
farewell = Goodbye.
ResourceBundleWithSugar.groovy:
import java.text.MessageFormat
class ResourceBundleUtils {
def propertyMissing(String name) { this.getString(name) }
def methodMissing(String name, args) {
MessageFormat.format(this.getString(name), args)
}
}
ResourceBundle.metaClass.mixin ResourceBundleUtils
def msg = ResourceBundle.getBundle("MessagesBundle", new Locale("en","US"));
println msg.greetings("Serge")
println msg.inquiry("Serge","Mary")
println msg.farewell // You can use also: msg.['farewell'] msg."farewell" or msg.getString("farewell")
Output:
Hello Serge.
Serge: How are you Mary?
Goodbye.