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Dighate
Dighate

Reputation: 91

Wilcards not working for XQuery assertions in SoapUI

This is the response for one of my test steps: 

   <Names>
        <NameList PropertyName="Record">
           <Names>
              <SimpleValue Value=" Date: MM/DD/Year "/>
              <SimpleValue Value="Name: John "/>
              <SimpleValue Value="Amount: 1234"/>
              <SimpleValue Value="Change: 2.0 "/>
              <SimpleValue Value="Total: 0.0 "/>
           </Names>
        </NameList>
   </Names>

I'm expecting the exact match in my Xquery assertion except the value where it says total.

This is what my assertion looks like:

       <Names>
        <NameList PropertyName="Record">
           <Names>
              <SimpleValue Value=" Date: MM/DD/Year "/>
              <SimpleValue Value="Name: John "/>
              <SimpleValue Value="Amount: 1234"/>
              <SimpleValue Value="Change: 2.0 "/>
              <SimpleValue Value="Total:"*""/>    
           </Names>
        </NameList>
   </Names>

I have checked allow wildcards in my Xquery expression, but that does not seem to be working in SoapUI. Is there a workaround for it?

Note: The response order is inconsistent so cannot use Xpath. Can read the values from SimpleValue node SimpleVale[1],SimpleValue[5] but, since it's inconsistent there's no way of knowing which node contains Total.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 515

Answers (2)

craigcaulfield
craigcaulfield

Reputation: 3538

If you're only interested in making sure Value="Total" is present and you don't care what value it might have, you could use SimpleValue[contains(@Value, "Total:")], which just checks the attribute name. For example:

(:  Replace these variables with values extracted from the soapUI response:)
declare variable $date := "MM/DD/Year";
declare variable $name := "John";
declare variable $amount := "1234";
declare variable $change := "2.0";

for $NameList in //<soapUI response payload>//NameList
let  $Names := $NameList/Names
where $Names/SimpleValue[@Value = concat("Date: ", $date)] and 
            $Names/SimpleValue[@Value = concat("Name: ", $name)] and
            $Names/SimpleValue[@Value = concat("Amount: ", $amount)] and
            $Names/SimpleValue[@Value = concat("Change: ", $change)] and
            $Names/SimpleValue[contains(@Value, "Total:")]    
return $NameList

You would also need to strip some of those leading and trailing white space characters on the attribute values to make sure you got a good match.

Upvotes: 2

mr.X
mr.X

Reputation: 291

Remove the quotation marks around *. As you have it now, it'll fail because the actual value is "Total: 0.0 " but your expected value is "Total: "0.0" "

Upvotes: 0

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