SoapUI: validate a date field in response with current date

Once in a while you need to validate a service that has dates in the response. Although SoapUI has xpath and xquery match assertions, validate against strings is quite difficult. How to do a date comparison against for instance the current date?

You can do it with a script assertion:

And the content of this can be:

def groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils(context)
// Set Namespaces
def holder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder(messageExchange.responseContent)
//holder.namespaces["soapenv"] = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
def dateFoundStr = holder.getNodeValue("/Results/ResultSet/Row[1]/DATE_FOUND")
def dateFound = new Date().parse("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss", dateFoundStr)
dateFoundStr = dateFound.format("yyyy-MM-dd")
//Current Date
def date = new Date()
def currentDate=date.format("yyyy-MM-dd")
//
assert dateFoundStr == currentDate

First we need to fetch and parse the response content using the holder variable, parsing the messageExchange.responseContent using groovyUtils.getXmlHolder.

Second, the particular date is found, here dateFound as a field from a JDBC response. A JDBC response does not have namespaces, but from a SOAP response it helps to declare namespaces. For an example see the commented line for holder.namespaces["soapenv"].

Third, I parse the found date, which is a string as fetched from the xml, to a date time, then format it to a string to get only the date part. This could be done simply using substring methods, but I wanted to try this. And get and formatthe currentDate as a string.

In the end just do assert with a comparison of both values.

There you go.