Mock response with repetitions in soapui - service

Question

I'm trying to do mock response based on the request.
With a request like that:
<soapenv:Body>
<con:person>
<person>
<name>John</name>
<age>18</age>
</person>
</con:person>
</soapenv:Body>
and a reponse like that
<soapenv:Body>
<con:result>
<person>
<name>?</name>
<age>?</age>
<country>?</country>
<city>?</city>
</person>
</con:result>
</soapenv:Body>
I can use elements from the request to take what i want in database and create the response.
But when i have a request with many person like that
<soapenv:Body>
<con:person>
<person>
<name>John</name>
<age>18</age>
</person>
<person>
<name>Doe</name>
<age>50</age>
</person>
</con:person>
</soapenv:Body>
I don't know how i can take all data from the request and how i can use them to create a response like that:
<soapenv:Body>
<con:result>
<person>
<name>John</name>
<age>18</age>
<country>France</country>
<city>Paris</city>
</person>
<person>
<name>Doe</name>
<age>50</age>
<country>Spain</country>
<city>Madrid</city>
</person>
</con:result>
</soapenv:Body>
With the same number of person in the request and in the response.
I hope i was clear and i thank you for your answers.

Answer 1

I managed to do something similar. First, I defined my mock response object as:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:stac="stackOverflow.question">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<stac:result>
${personElements}
</stac:result>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
I then created the content for ${personElements} using this Groovy script:
import groovy.xml.MarkupBuilder
// An array from which county and city will be drawn randomly
def countryArray = [["Australia", "Perth"],
["Spain", "Madrid"],
["England","London"],
["Brazil", "Rio"]]
def random = new Random()
// create XmlHolder for request content
def holder = new com.eviware.soapui.support.XmlHolder( mockRequest.requestContent )
// Get the name and age values from the request
def requestItems = holder.getNodeValues( "//*:person/*:person/descendant::*")
def writer = new StringWriter()
def personElements = new MarkupBuilder(writer)
// Build the response elements
for (int index = 0; index < requestItems.size() - 1; index += 2) {
personElements.'stac:person'() {
'stac:name'(requestItems[index])
'stac:age'(requestItems[index+1])
// Choose a random county and city from the array
def randomIndex = random.nextInt(countryArray.size())
'stac:country'(countryArray[randomIndex][0])
'stac:city'(countryArray[randomIndex][1])
}
}
// Add the newly created elements to the response
context.personElements = writer.toString()
This gave me a response like:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:stac="stackOverflow.question">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<stac:result>
<stac:person>
<stac:name>Dolly Bonkers</stac:name>
<stac:age>42</stac:age>
<stac:country>Brazil</stac:country>
<stac:city>Rio</stac:city>
</stac:person>
<stac:person>
<stac:name>Mary Poppins</stac:name>
<stac:age>82</stac:age>
<stac:country>England</stac:country>
<stac:city>London</stac:city>
</stac:person>
<stac:person>
<stac:name>Bilbo Baggins</stac:name>
<stac:age>102</stac:age>
<stac:country>Australia</stac:country>
<stac:city>Perth</stac:city>
</stac:person>
<stac:person>
<stac:name>Johnny Hardcase</stac:name>
<stac:age>22</stac:age>
<stac:country>Spain</stac:country>
<stac:city>Madrid</stac:city>
</stac:person>
</stac:result>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
The script just takes random city and country values from a small array but you could come up with something better if you wanted consistent responses for certain names.