This extension comes handy if you need to call a WebService during the test.
Also you can develop simple web service (python, .Net, ...) to do some 'utility work' - clean up a database, execute sql, etc. and use it in your tests.
attached file contains required js code (tested with selenium 0.8.0). The second version works in 1.0b2 and probably needs improvement (wasn't sure how to declare helper function getWebServiceResponse).
callWebService returns the data from the first node of the result XML.
callWebServiceForValues takes the comma-separated list of names, takes the nodeValues from the first elements with the matching names, and stores the value in variables of the same names (see second example below).
callWebServiceForXML simply returns the result XML if you need to deal with something that has more structure than that.
Examples of implemented commands:
| resetWebServiceParameters | ||
| addWebServiceParameter | user_name | Doe |
| addWebServiceParameter | pass | ${password} |
| addWebServiceParameter | timeout | ${timeout} |
| callWebService | http://somewebsite/webapp/_qa_/test_automation_svc.asmx/get_email | result |
| .. do something with ${result} |
In the next example, the responseXML from the web method is something like:
<user>
<username>bob</username>
<password>pass1234</password>
<first>bob</first>
<last>smith</last>
</user>
| resetWebServiceParameters | ||
| callWebServiceForValues | http://somewebsite/webapp/_qa_/test_automation_svc.asmx/get_user_object | username, password |
| type | username_field | ${username} |
| type | password_field | ${password} |
| clickAndWait | login_button |
| resetWebServiceParameters | ||
| callWebServiceForXML | http://somewebsite/webapp/_qa_/test_automation_svc.asmx/get_user_object | responseXML |
| ... do something with responseXML which is an XMLDocument |
P.S. thanks to fellow MetaCommunications' developers for providing me with working code for the extension. 