Using REST Assured library for testing SOAP webservices - web-services

Question

Is there a possibility of using REST Assured library for testing SOAP webservices?
I have a bunch of Test Suites in SOAP UI and I need to check if there is possibility of using REST Assured.
Can anyone suggest if this is possible?
Many thanks for any comments.

Answer 1

Here I show you an example
Headers SOAPAction and Content-Type are mandatory. You need to find wich is the SOAPAction header in your case, sometimes is the next part of the last "/" in the url
import static io.restassured.RestAssured.given;
import io.restassured.RestAssured;
import io.restassured.path.xml.XmlPath;
import io.restassured.response.Response;
XmlPath xmlPath;
Response response;
RestAssured.baseURI = "http://url";
response =
given()
.request().body("xml_text").headers("SOAPAction", "findSoapAction", "Content-Type", "text/xml").
when()
.post("/path").
then()
.assertThat()
.statusCode(200).extract().response();
System.out.println(response.asString());
//next we get the xmlPath of the response
xmlPath = response.xmlPath();
//and get the value of a node in the xml
String nodeValue= xmlPath.get("fatherNode.childNode");
System.out.println(nodeValue);
Elements in the code you should set:
RestAssured.baseURI = "http://url";
Is the url where to make the request
given().request().body("xml_text")
The argument o body() is a string with the xml of the request
headers("SOAPAction", "findSoapAction", "Content-Type", "text/xml")
"findSoapAction" is a string with the value of the SOAPAction header you should guess, and "text/xml" is what you should set as Content-Type header.
xmlPath.get("fatherNode.childNode");
returns the value of the node. Example:
<fatherNode>
<childNode>value of the node</childNode>
</fatherNode>
get("fatherNode.childNode") returns "value of the node"

Answer 2

REST-assured does not have direct support for testing SOAP services, but it is possible by manually setting the SOAPAction and Content-Type headers and doing an HTTP POST etc. Then you can run XPath assertions on the response like you do for normal REST services in REST-assured.
I suggest you also evaluate Karate as it has built-in support for SOAP, and also makes XML manipulation a lot easier.