A SOAPUI-project file contained a testsuite. The testsuite consisted of (xml) requests to a certain rest-service. I wanted to extract all those request-messages to use them in my own test. Doing that by hand was a bit cumbersome and boring. I decided to write a small script for do that in Scala. Writing the script was a lot easier then doing it …

SOAPUIProjectExtractor.scala

import scala.xml._
import java.io._

/**
 * Small script to extract the request-xml-messages from a soapui project
 */
object SoapUIExtractor extends App {

    def writeTestStep(teststep:Node) {
      val requestContent = (teststep \ "config" \ "restRequest" \ "request").head.child(0).text
      val testCaseName = (teststep \ "@name").head.text
      val filename = testCaseName+".xml"
      println(filename)
      val writer = new PrintWriter(new File( filename ))
      writer.write(requestContent)
      writer.close()      
      println(requestContent)
    }

    val soapUI = XML.loadFile("my_soapui-project.xml")
    //extract all test cases and write the request-xml that's contained in each test-case
    (soapUI \\ "soapui-project" \ "testSuite" \ "testCase" \ "testStep" ).foreach ( r => writeTestStep(r) )
}