In SoapUI, in command-line, how to export some properties to another project?

Question

In SoapUI, I have a lot of projects (separate xml files):

The first one (init.xml) will initialize a lot of properties (ex: sessionId)
the other project (other.xml) will use that sessionID

In the GUI, I simply use the transfert step to pass the value to a global property, and it works great.

In the command line testrunner.bat, I first run the "init.xml" project, then the other one (other.xml). But in the other.xml, the sessionId is not set. How could I export the sessionID from the init.xml run to the "other.xml" run?

Here is what i did test:

specify a separate settings.xml (-t testsettings.xml) => testsettings.xml is not updated
running the two steps in one (testrunner.bat init.xml test1.xml) => not supported

I would like to avoid merging all my project into one project.

Thanks

It is good practise to have each test case independent. Here you are trying to have dependency on different project. Can' that be done in the project where it is needed? — Rao, Jun 19 '17 at 09:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '17 at 10:06

To use the common initialization of properties from init.xml, you could import the init.xml from within the load script of other project other.xml as follows:

def initProject = null
if (project.workspace == null) {
    // Case running from command line - loading the init.xml
    initProject = new com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlProject("init.xml")
} else {
    // Case in GUI having a workspace - put in correct project name
    initProject = project.workspace.getProjectByName("Init")
}
// Invoke test case which sets up global properties
def initCase = initProject.testSuites["foo"].testCases["bar"]
testCase.run(new com.eviware.soapui.support.types.StringToObjectMap(), false)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 19 '17 at 11:19

The initializations required for a project have to be done in the same project which is good practice.

But you are doing different, not sure why it is being like that. If possible, make each project independent.

If you still want to achieve in the same way that you are doing currently, then use below:

What happens when the project(init.xml) is run from command line?

The changes that you expect are done in the memory and those data is available in other projects when you from within SoapUI since that data is available in memory. However not persisted to project (init.xml) once testrunner is finished with execution.

What should be done in order to persist data?
You need to add an additional command-line option, -S, in order to persist the data to the project.

For example, let us assume below command is used to run init.xml.

testrunner.bat [some options] init.xml

Change the above to below:

testrunner.bat [some options] -S init.xml

And when the second project is run, then it can pick the data from init.xml since those changes happened earlier are persisted.

Hope this is helpful.

In SoapUI, in command-line, how to export some properties to another project?

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