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nila2020
New Contributor
6 years ago

Rest Json Response, Need to get all the attribute key in the same order as in the response

Hi, I am new to this community, I am working on a testing project and I use soap ui free version.

I have a Json response with around 64 attributes in a set, I need to get all the keys in the same order as in the response and verify all the sets have the same order.

Example:

{

"responseCode":200,

"responseData":

   "Header":

       "HeaderDate":["ABC1"

                               "ABC2"

                              "ABC3"

                              "ABC4"

                              to "ABC65"]

  "DataValue":[

                       "ABC1":"Value",

                       "ABC2":"Value", 

                        "ABC3":"Value",

                         to "ABC65":"Value"]

                        

                      [

                       "ABC1":"Value",

                       "ABC2":"Value", 

                        "ABC3":"Value",

                         to "ABC65":"Value"]

this can bring in even 2000 or more sets

 

I have to get all the Keys in the order in the response and validate with the sequence in the HeaderData

If I use keySet() I get in the unordered list.

 

Please guide me

Thanks in advance

 

   

 

  • JHunt's avatar
    JHunt
    Community Hero
    6 years ago

    You can get an ordered list with collect:

     

    ArrayList<String> keys = [b:2, a:1].collect { key, value -> key }

    assert keys == ["b", "a"]
    assert keys != ["a", "b"]
    • nila2020's avatar
      nila2020
      New Contributor
      6 years ago

      Thank you for your quick response, I will try and let you know,

    • nila2020's avatar
      nila2020
      New Contributor
      6 years ago

      I am new to groovy script, Please can you explain what is [b:2,a:1], Thank you in advance

      JHunt  

      • JHunt's avatar
        JHunt
        Community Hero
        6 years ago

        That's a Map. It's just like an object in JSON. So for parsing a response, and checking the keys of the object, you would do something like this:

         

        String response = '''{
    "DataValue": [
        {
            "ABC1": "Value",
            "ABC2": "Value"
        }, {
            "ABC1": "Value",
            "ABC2": "Value"
        }
    ]
}'''

new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText(response)["DataValue"].each { dataValue ->

    ArrayList<String> keys = dataValue.collect { key, value -> key }
    assert keys == [ "ABC1", "ABC2" ]
    
}

        And the assertion will fail if the order is different to what you are expecting.