Soap UI startup parameters

Question

I have the free version of Soap UI and several different workspaces. I would like to set up several shortcuts to Soap UI with each shortcut including a start-up parameter indicating which workspace to load, but I can't find what the actual parameters are to do that. I looked over the documentation, and I saw a reference to the fact that there are start-up parameters available, but I couldn't find where they were listed.

Is there a way to do this (similar to eclipse's "-data" parameter)?

thanks.

Solution

You can do this fairly easily by creating a workspace file that references your project, and then starting soapui from the command line or a batch file. The switch you need to specify a workspace file is -w.

soapui-4.5.1 -w "c:\path to my workspace file"

All your workspace file needs, in turn, is a single node with your project name and the path to your project file.

<con:soapui-workspace xmlns:con="http://eviware.com/soapui/config" soapui-version="4.5.1" name="Projects"> <con:description/> <con:settings/> <con:project name="My Project Name">D:/path to my project.xml</con:project> </con:soapui-workspace>

I know this is old, but I had the same question, and was frustrated that I couldn't specify a startup project. I downloaded the SoapUI source code, and dug around until I found the answer.

Comments

[Jeremy]

I'm afraid I can't find a sopaui-settings.xml file in my install (Win 7 x64). I also dug around the ProgramData and Appdata folders...

[Jeremy]

Thank you! This works great. For myself, I didn't have to modify the workspace file (but I'm only interested in starting up with a specific workspace, not so worried about the project).

[kiprainey]

My pleasure. Now if I could only figure out how to do the same thing with LoadUI.

[djangofan]

I use testrunner.bat. Why do you choose here to not run with that method?

[kiprainey]

The method that I've suggested was the easiest way I found to specify a workspace file and startup project. If you're using a batch file, you could easily include the paramater in there as well.

[J0e3gan]

@Jeremy: My soapui-settings.xml file (running Win 7 x64) is in C:\Users\myusername - in case it helps anyone who is similarly snagged.

[J0e3gan]

Very cool. How did you learn of the -w command-line option? Do you know of a list of command-line options for SoapUI-<ver>.exe?

[kiprainey]

@J0e3gan I had to download the source code and poke around to find the command line options. I wasn't able to find documentation anywhere.

[J0e3gan]

Thanks for the tip. I didn't think of that option. It's unfortunate that command-line options for SoapUI-<ver>.exe are not documented like those for testrunner.bat (which are documented very well), but examining the SoapUI-<ver>.exe source will work.

[Ellesedil]

A +1 to you, good sir, simply for downloading the SoapUI code and going through it to find the solution.

[Ellesedil]

By the way, you didn't happen to notice a switch for specifying a global settings file path, did you? I'd even settle for a switch that allows me to override the user's home directory for SoapUI. I found a way via the installed batch files, but I need to find something that's a little easier to edit. If you didn't, it's looking like I might need to do the same steps you took to find the solution.

[kiprainey]

@Ellesedil, I'm afraid I didn't notice anything for specifying a global settings file path. If I recall correctly, I had to log on to our build server as the user that executes our SOAP UI tests, open the app, and specify a path. It's less than ideal, obviously.

[Ellesedil]

Thanks. I'll do some more searching, but I suspect I'm a few hours away from pulling the source down myself.