Test SOAP Services using REST Assured API

REST Assured(RA) is a framework built on Java, developed to test the REST services. However we can test SOAP services too by forming the request in the below format.

RA has inbuilt support for multiple authentication like BASIC, OAuth, OAuth2, Form, Certificate, Digest, CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) etc.

RA out of the box has the support for BDD approach.

Follow the below steps to configure & test the SOAP web services.

STEPS:

STEP 1: Download the latest version of REST ASSURED binaries from the below location.

          REST Assured Binaries.

STEP 2: Create the java project in eclipse & add the 'rest-assured-*.*.*.jar' and other dependent jars into project build path.

STEP 3: Prepare the required Input parameters like 

String url = "https://app.test.com/start.swe?src=WebService&Username=abcd";

String requestType = "POST";

//SOAP Action & content-type header params to be passed for SOAP services
HashMap headermap = new HashMap<>();
headermap.put("Content-Type", "text/xml");
headermap.put("SOAPAction", "\"document/http://www.app1.com/Rk:IR\"");
headermap.put......

//Assign the SOAP body to the below variable.
String reqBody = "<soapenv:Envelope
    xmlns:soapenv=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\"
    xmlns:rk=\"http://www.app1.com/Rk\"
    xmlns:r1=\"http://xml/app/rack\">"+
" <soapenv:Header/>"+
"<soapenv:Body>"+
"<rk:IR_Input>"+
"<r1:LR>"+
"<r1:Id>TstAPI1</r1:Id>"+
"</r1:LR>"+
"</rk:IR_Input>"+
"</soapenv:Body>"+
"</soapenv:Envelope>";

//Path of the response node, which need to be validated with the expected value
String validationKey = "reponse.test.no";
String expVal = "A04BH12";
String actualVal = "";

//Variable to capture response.
String resp = "";

STEP 4: Pass the above details as input to the REST Assured APIs, which would execute the request & validate the response.

if(requestType == "GET")
resp = RestAssured.given().log().all().headers(headermap).get(url);
else if(requestType == "POST")
resp = RestAssured.given().log().all().headers(headermap).body(reqBody).post(url);
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//Extract the required key value & compare with the expected value.

XMLPath path = new XMLPath(resp);
actualVal = path.getString(validationKey); 
if(actualVal == expVal)
   System.out.println("Test PASS");
else
   System.out.println("Test FAIL");




References:
https://github.com/rest-assured/rest-assured/wiki/GettingStarted
https://github.com/rest-assured/rest-assured/wiki/Downloads