getXmlHolder and context.expand - What does the arguments description mean

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I am trying to insert values into the Request and Capture the response from the soapui pro Testsuite/testcase/testStep, using groovy script, without creating any property or assertions using soapui pro wizard. Everything i am trying to do using groovy script file in Soapui pro. But after 11 days of my self learning process I am forced to ask the in the forum:

I went thru almost 100 sites talking about how to capture request/response value. But none explains the following:

  1. getXmlHolder ("DeliverStatus#Request") what does "deliveryStatus" & "Request" means and what does it contains. Which part of xml file is it. What does it signify
  2. context.expand

For all my attempts i have got Null exception. But i have been able to successfull script using groovy in the "Script tab in the Response section". But unable to do in using testsuite Groovy Script.

Please help.. Thanking all in advance

Regards

Am

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1 Answers

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DeliverStatus is basically meaningless - it is the name of your test step.

Request means that you look at the XML request that will be sent by SoapUI.

You can replace Request with Response and get the result of the API call.

context.expend allows you to get the value of the request or the response as well as specific XPaths within them. I'm not familiar with the getXmlHolder method - but it looks like it gets an XML string as input (can be a fragment) and turns it into an object you can work with.

My recommendation - if you are not using it already, is to right click on the Groovy editing area and choose Get Data --> Test Suite --> Test Case --> Test Step --> Response --> and navigate to the path in the response to which you want to access. This will set the value of that XML fragment into a string variable of your choosing.

Afterwards you can use the getXmlHolder to convert that string into an object. I also recommend using the XmlSlurper for parsing an XML string into an object.