[Webtest] How to read dbunit-export-files as webtestproperties

[Lothar Märkle]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:37:45PM +0100, St_Germain@web.de wrote:
> I have a database-dbunit-query to get some kinds of webresults with dbunit from our oracle-database.
> So the dbunit is a kind like xml:
> 
> output from dbunit:
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> <dataset>
>   <FOO COL1="22901862" COL2="010100000084" COL3="0" COL4="RI" COL5="NP" COL6="z" COL7="03.10.2006"/>
> </dataset>
> 
> How can I use these kinds of statements to get it through webtest like:
> 
> invoke ...
> [...]
> <clickLink label="${COL1}"/>
> <setInputField name="number1" value="${COL2}" .../>
> <clickButton .../>
> [..]
> 
> and so on?
> 
> How do I define it in ant/webtest as property-file or do I have to include it?
You could use xslt to generate a xml file usable with ants XmlProperty
task?(Or just a plain properties file)

Another way could be to use <invoke/> on the dbunit xml file and then use
<storeXPath/> to extract the value.

greetings,
  lothar