Allow usage of XMLUnit placeholders in request and response matchers

spring-ws-test/pom.xml

@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@
 			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
 
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.xmlunit</groupId>
+			<artifactId>xmlunit-placeholders</artifactId>
+			<version>${xmlunit.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>

spring-ws-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/ws/test/support/matcher/xmlunit2/PayloadDiffMatcher.java

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 import org.xmlunit.builder.DiffBuilder;
 import org.xmlunit.diff.Diff;
+import org.xmlunit.diff.DifferenceEvaluators;
+import org.xmlunit.placeholder.PlaceholderDifferenceEvaluator;
 
 /**
  * Matches {@link Source} payloads.
@@ -68,6 +70,8 @@ protected Diff createDiff(Source payload) {
 		return DiffBuilder.compare(expectedDocument) //
 				.withTest(actualDocument) //
 				.ignoreWhitespace() //
+				.withDifferenceEvaluator(
+						DifferenceEvaluators.chain(new PlaceholderDifferenceEvaluator(), DifferenceEvaluators.Default))
 				.checkForSimilar() //
 				.build();
 	}

spring-ws-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/ws/test/support/matcher/xmlunit2/SoapEnvelopeDiffMatcher.java

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 import org.xmlunit.builder.DiffBuilder;
 import org.xmlunit.diff.Diff;
+import org.xmlunit.diff.DifferenceEvaluators;
+import org.xmlunit.placeholder.PlaceholderDifferenceEvaluator;
 
 /**
  * Matches {@link Source} SOAP envelopes.
@@ -56,7 +58,12 @@ protected void match(SoapMessage soapMessage) throws IOException, AssertionError
 
 		Document actualDocument = soapMessage.getDocument();
 		Document expectedDocument = createDocumentFromSource(expected);
-		Diff diff = DiffBuilder.compare(expectedDocument).ignoreWhitespace().withTest(actualDocument).checkForSimilar()
+		Diff diff = DiffBuilder.compare(expectedDocument)
+				.ignoreWhitespace()
+				.withTest(actualDocument)
+				.withDifferenceEvaluator(
+						DifferenceEvaluators.chain(new PlaceholderDifferenceEvaluator(), DifferenceEvaluators.Default))
+				.checkForSimilar()
 				.build();
 		assertTrue("Envelopes are different, " + diff.toString(), !diff.hasDifferences());
 	}

spring-ws-test/src/test/java/org/springframework/ws/test/support/matcher/xmlunit2/PayloadDiffMatcherTest.java

@@ -43,6 +43,21 @@ public void match() {
 		verify(message);
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void matchWithXmlIgnore() {
+
+		var xml = "<element xmlns='http://example.com'>%s</element>";
+		WebServiceMessage message = createMock(WebServiceMessage.class);
+
+		expect(message.getPayloadSource()).andReturn(new StringSource(xml.formatted("1234"))).times(2);
+		replay(message);
+
+		var matcher = new PayloadDiffMatcher(new StringSource(xml.formatted("${xmlunit.ignore}")));
+		matcher.match(message);
+
+		verify(message);
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void matchIgnoringWhitespace() {
 

spring-ws-test/src/test/java/org/springframework/ws/test/support/matcher/xmlunit2/SoapEnvelopeDiffMatcherTest.java

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import static org.easymock.EasyMock.replay;
 import static org.easymock.EasyMock.verify;
 
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
 import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMResult;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@
 import org.springframework.xml.transform.TransformerHelper;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
+
 public class SoapEnvelopeDiffMatcherTest {
 
 	@Test
@@ -76,4 +79,26 @@ public void nonMatch() {
 			matcher.match(message);
 		});
 	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void matchWithXmlIgnore() throws TransformerException, IOException {
+        String xml = """
+                <?xml version='1.0'?>
+                <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap='http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope'>
+                <soap:Header><header xmlns='http://example.com'/></soap:Header>
+                <soap:Body><payload xmlns='http://example.com'>%s</payload></soap:Body>
+                </soap:Envelope>""";
+
+		String actual = String.format(xml, "1");
+		DOMResult result = new DOMResult();
+		TransformerHelper transformerHelper = new TransformerHelper();
+		transformerHelper.transform(new StringSource(actual), result);
+		SoapMessage message = createMock(SoapMessage.class);
+		expect(message.getDocument()).andReturn((Document) result.getNode()).once();
+		replay(message);
+
+		String expected = String.format(xml, "${xmlunit.ignore}");
+		SoapEnvelopeDiffMatcher matcher = new SoapEnvelopeDiffMatcher(new StringSource(expected));
+		matcher.match(message);
+	}
 }

src/main/asciidoctor/client.adoc

@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ The `RequestMatchers` class provides the following request matchers:
 | Expects any sort of request.
 
 | `payload()`
-| Expects a given request payload.
+| Expects a given request payload. May include https://github.com/xmlunit/user-guide/wiki/Placeholders[XMLUnit Placeholders]
 
 | `validPayload()`
 | Expects the request payload to validate against given XSD schemas.
@@ -468,6 +468,9 @@ The `RequestMatchers` class provides the following request matchers:
 | `soapHeader()`
 | Expects a given SOAP header to exist in the request message.
 
+| `soapEnvelope()`
+| Expects a given SOAP payload. May include https://github.com/xmlunit/user-guide/wiki/Placeholders[XMLUnit Placeholders]
+
 | `connectionTo()`
 | Expects a connection to the given URL.
 |===

src/main/asciidoctor/server.adoc

@@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ The `ResponseMatchers` class provides the following response matchers:
 | Description
 
 | `payload()`
-| Expects a given response payload.
+| Expects a given response payload. May include https://github.com/xmlunit/user-guide/wiki/Placeholders[XMLUnit Placeholders].
 
 | `validPayload()`
 | Expects the response payload to validate against given XSD schemas.
@@ -1255,6 +1255,9 @@ The `ResponseMatchers` class provides the following response matchers:
 | `soapHeader()`
 | Expects a given SOAP header to exist in the response message.
 
+| `soapEnvelope()`
+| Expects a given SOAP payload. May include https://github.com/xmlunit/user-guide/wiki/Placeholders[XMLUnit Placeholders].
+
 | `noFault()`
 | Expects that the response message does not contain a SOAP Fault.