Can we able to use Java code in Groovy TestStep in SoapUI Pro?

Question

I'm in the initial stage of learning Groovy with SoapUI Pro. So I started writing simple script in Groovy Teststep editor as shown below

class Hello {
    static void main(String args[]) {
        log.info("Welcome");
    }
}

When I execute this script by clicking on the "Run" button from SoapUI Pro, it is throwing the following error message.

Error:

org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed: Script16.groovy: 5: unexpected token: [ @ line 5, column 30. static void main(String args[]) ^ org.codehaus.groovy.syntax.SyntaxException: unexpected token: [ @ line 5, column 30. at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.AntlrParserPlugin.transformCSTIntoAST(AntlrParserPlugin.java:139) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.AntlrParserPlugin.parseCST(AntlrParserPlugin.java:107) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.SourceUnit.parse(SourceUnit.java:236) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit$1.call(CompilationUnit.java:163) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.applyToSourceUnits(CompilationUnit.java:839) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.doPhaseOperation(CompilationUnit.java:544) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.processPhaseOperations(CompilationUnit.java:520) at org.codehaus.groovy.control.CompilationUnit.compile(CompilationUnit.java:497) at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.doParseClass(GroovyC lassLoader.java:306) at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.parseClass(GroovyClassLoader.java:287) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.parseClass(GroovyShell.java:731) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.parse(GroovyShell.java:743) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.parse(GroovyShell.java:770) at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.parse(GroovyShell.java:761) at com.eviware.soapui.support.scripting.groovy.SoapUIGroovyScriptEngine.compile(SoapUIGroovyScriptEngine.java:148) at com.eviware.soapui.support.scripting.groovy.SoapUIGroovyScriptEngine.run(SoapUIGroovyScriptEngine.java:93) at com.eviware.soapui.support.scripting.groovy.SoapUIProGroovyScriptEngineFactory$SoapUIProGroovyScriptEngine.run(SourceFile:89) at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.teststeps.WsdlGroovyScriptTestStep.run(WsdlGroovyScriptTestStep.java:149) at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.panels.teststeps.GroovyScriptStepDesktopPanel$RunAction$1.run(GroovyScriptStepDesktopPanel.java:274) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurr ent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: Script16.groovy:5:30: unexpected token: [ at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.parser.GroovyRecognizer.parameterDeclaration(GroovyRecognizer.java:8413) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.parser.GroovyRecognizer.parameterDeclarationList(GroovyRecognizer.java:7397) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.parser.GroovyRecognizer.variableDefinitions(GroovyRecognizer.java:2311) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.parser.GroovyRecognizer.declaration(GroovyRecognizer.java:2140) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.parser.GroovyRecognizer.classField(GroovyRecognizer.java:5936) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.parser.GroovyRecognizer.classBlock(GroovyRecognizer.java:5236) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.parser.GroovyRecognizer.classDefinition(GroovyRecognizer.java:1942) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.parser.GroovyRecognizer.typeDefinitionInternal(GroovyRecognizer.java:1822) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.parser.GroovyRecognizer.statement(GroovyR ecognizer.java:1305) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.parser.GroovyRecognizer.compilationUnit(GroovyRecognizer.java:757) at org.codehaus.groovy.antlr.AntlrParserPlugin.transformCSTIntoAST(AntlrParserPlugin.java:130) ... 21 more 1 error

I'm not sure what wrong did I do and what I have to do for solving this issue.

Thanks
Karunagara Pandi

Answer 1

Groovy is 99% code-compatible with Java. So you can use straight up Java in a Groovy script.

Your problem is that you are declaring a method main . In a SoapUI Groovy Script step you do not declare a method. You just start writing code. See Groovy documentation for additional information.

So your script should be just:

log.info("Welcome");

No class , no static void main , just that one liner!

Answer 2

You've bad syntax.

Replace:

String args[]

with:

String[] args

or simply:

args

UPDATE (log)

MPE is thrown because You don't have a declaration for log field. Try adding the following import:

import groovy.util.logging.Slf4j

and annotate the @Slf4j annotation. Also see here . Don't know how logging works exactly with SoapUI.

Answer 3

class Hello {
    def log = this.log;
    void main(String[] args) {
        log.info("Welcome");
    }
}

Out: Wed Oct 26 12:22:35 EEST 2016:INFO:Welcome