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Dave Whalen
Dave Whalen

Reputation: 21

Using XPath to Extract and Use Data from a GET response

Here's the scenario... I perform a GET to retrieve an XML. I want to extract a value from the XML to use in a subsequent test. For example, I do a GET to retrieve an Order XML. I then want to extract the text of the ProposalNumber element and assign it to a variable using LET so that I may use it later in the test. I downloaded a RestFixtureTest that does this exact scenario which works as expected and returns the text (using text()). But when I try it with the system under test, the response is empty. The only obvious difference I see is the Content-Type header. The RestFixtureTest uses text/xml where my test uses application/xml.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 629

Answers (1)

Priyanka
Priyanka

Reputation: 31

According to your web service, the Content-Type has to be updated before launching the web service using RestFixture of FITNESSE

For example, if your web service uses application/xml Using SetHeaders and define Content-Type as application/xml

Then use let for parsing the XML response using below format,

|let |proposalnumber|body|//proposalnumber/text()|$proposalnumber=|

The value of proposalnumber tag will be stored in proposalnumber variable

Upvotes: 0

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