using variables in groovy context.expand expression - groovy

Question

I tried to automate a test case using groovy script and soapUI.
Sending a soap request, I got a response contains a company list.
What I'ld like to do is verifying names of listed companies.
Size of the response array is not fixed.
So I tried the script below just for the beginning but I got stuck..
def count = context.expand( '${Properties#count}' )
count = count.toInteger()
def i = 0
while (i<count)
(
def response = context.expand( '${getCompanyList#Response#//multiRef['+i+']/#id}' )
log.info(response)
i=İ+1
)
I get
org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed: Script12.groovy: 6: unexpected token: def # line 6, column 1. def response = context.expand( '${getCompanyList#Response#//multiRef['+i+']/#id}' ) ^ org.codehaus.groovy.syntax.SyntaxException: unexpected token: def # line 6, column 1. at
I should somehow put "i" in the "response" definition..

Answer 1

You are using the wrong characters to in your while statement, it should be braces ({}), not parentheses (()).
This is why the error is regarding the def on line 6, and has nothing to do with the i variable.
You also have İ in your example, which is not a valid variable name in Groovy.
I think you wanted this:
def count = context.expand( '${Properties#count}' )
count = count.toInteger()
def i = 0
while (i<count) {
def response = context.expand( '${getCompanyList#Response#//multiRef['+i+']/#id}' )
log.info(response)
i=i+1
}
However, this being Groovy, you can do this much cleaner using:
def count = context.expand( '${Properties#count}' )
count.toInteger().times { i ->
def response = context.expand( '${getCompanyList#Response#//multiRef['+i+']/#id}' )
log.info(response)
}
(And if you replace i inside the closure with it, you can remove the i -> as well.)