[Webtest] Groovy equivalent of macro?

[bestguy]

Hi,

I've been writing Groovy-only WebTests, which works great.
However, stumbling on how to define and reuse a "macro" which consists of
other webtest calls.

In this case, I want to call these two steps:

invoke(url: "http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=${it}";)
verifyXPath(xpath: "id('form')/table/tbody/tr[1]/t...@class='valid']")

and wrap them in a simple call such as 
validator("http://www.blah.com";)

I'd like to define these somewhere an reuse them.

However, can't seem to get this to work.  Approaches like this fail:

class BlahTest extends WebtestCase {

    void testList() {
        def validator = {
            invoke(url:
"http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=${it}&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0";)
            verifyXPath(xpath:
"id('form')/table/tbody/tr[1]/t...@class='valid']")
        }

        webtest("List Pages") {
            validator("http://www.wordpress.com";)
        }
    }
}


The only way that seems to work is if you embed the closure in the webtest
itself:

        webtest("List Pages") {
            def validator = {
                invoke(url: "http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=${it}";)
                verifyXPath(xpath:
"id('form')/table/tbody/tr[1]/t...@class='valid']")
            }

            validator("http://www.wordpress.com";)
        }


but that sort of limits the usefulness of this.

Any ideas?


Thanks,
G
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