XML request templating

[venkatesgopi]

Do you have any option for SOAP XML request template and reusing example table
In the below example there are two place holders one for filling firstName and lastname
i will define EXAMPLE table with firstName and lastName alone but i dont define AGE in that case AGE tag should be get removed.

Sample
XML request format

<query>
<name>
<firstname>${firstName}</firstname>
<lastname>${lastName}</lastname>
</name>
<age>${age}</age>
</query>

Could you please provide solution for this scenario

[ptrthomas]

That is a great question and for the time being I don't have a great solution for the conditional age tag other than using a JavaScript function, but I see a gap where manipulating XML inside JS may not be supported fully yet.

The way Karate is designed, you can certainly achieve this if you call some Java code. Take a look at Java interop. Meanwhile I will consider this as a feature request.

Hope you are aware that XML templating works exactly like JSON where any element (or attribute) values in the #() form will evaluate expressions within the brackets.

[venkatesgopi]

thanks for the prompt reply. i tried <SubjectName>#(name)</SubjectName> but stil its got failed with below log line. any clue?

Examples:
|name|
|venkat|
|gopi|

00:10:26.991 [main] WARN com.intuit.karate.Script - embedded xml-text script eval failed: script failed: (name)

[ptrthomas]

Try something like this:

* def name = '<name>'
* def query = <SubjectName>#(name)</SubjectName>

[ptrthomas]

@venkatesgopi not sure if you are watching this ticket, but can you try this example:

https://github.com/intuit/karate/blob/3450222b44dec17dacff46a8087db0a199d19547/karate-junit4/src/test/java/com/intuit/karate/junit4/demos/xml-and-xpath.feature

This should work in version 0.4.0-SNAPSHOT

I'd like to know if this works for you.

[venkatesgopi]

Thanks lot for the support. i will check and get back to you very soon.