Re-usable Groovy scripts for SoapUI

For couple of days I could not login to blog - but with kind of frequency I was blogging in last year, it should not make any difference.

Though I stared to use SoapUI with some reluctance (mainly due to the fact that the project I am working is a REST system and I thought SoapUI's support for REST cannot be that great) I made good progress and became more and more comfortable with it.

One test I had in mind was verifying response headers. Using the Groovy script was the most straight forward method to do that. However, in all the examples I found, Groovy script was referring to the step by name to access the response data. This meant editing the script every time I used it in a different place. SoapUI pro has a scripting library but I was using the free version.

Then I thought the best way is to write the script to get data from the previous step, regardless where it is. In this way, I don't need to change the script every time I use, but just to place it write below the step where I need to test the headers. This was the script I came up with.