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richie
Community Hero
6 years ago

Check repeating .json attribute has either of two specific regex patterns

Hi!   A while back I needed some help to assert that a certain repeating attribute in a multi record json response had a specific regex pattern of 3 upper case chars.   Rao sorted me out - se...
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    nmrao
    6 years ago

    richie 

    Oh, data with valid and invalid could have helped to write the assertions.

     

    Anyways, seems you have trivial issue in the code snippet

     

    The following should work if your regex are correct

    assert json.value.code.every{it ==~ /[A-Z]{2}/ || it ==~ /[A-Z]{2}-[A-Z]{3}/}
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    nmrao
    6 years ago

    richie 

    The regex further can be simplified as (not tested though):

    ([A-Z]{2}(-[A-Z]{3})?)

     

    assert json.value.code.every{it ==~ /([A-Z]{2}(-[A-Z]{3})?)/}

     

     

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richie
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Hey nmrao,

My bad for not being clear.....those values are iso country and region codes....hence the reason why i think i need to use regex...

Ta,

Richie
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nmrao
Champion Level 3
6 years ago

richie 

Oh, data with valid and invalid could have helped to write the assertions.

 

Anyways, seems you have trivial issue in the code snippet

 

The following should work if your regex are correct

assert json.value.code.every{it ==~ /[A-Z]{2}/ || it ==~ /[A-Z]{2}-[A-Z]{3}/}
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    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    6 years ago

    richie 

    The regex further can be simplified as (not tested though):

    ([A-Z]{2}(-[A-Z]{3})?)

     

    assert json.value.code.every{it ==~ /([A-Z]{2}(-[A-Z]{3})?)/}

     

     

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      richie
      Community Hero
      6 years ago

      I'm such an idiot sometimes - why couldn't I have gotten that?

       

      nmrao - saved my life again - Kudos awarded

       

      nice one!

       

      richie