Assert a json value is NOT present in the json response's array?
Hey!
I've been stuck doing strategy on my new job for the last 5 weeks and today is the first time back to looking at SoapUI and my brain has gone blank.
I need to assert that a particular json array value isnt present in the response
so if response is as follows:
{
"Permissions" : [
"ACME:CommodityCode.Read",
"ACME:Notification.Create",
"ACME:Org.Species.Read",
"ACME:CommodityCode.Read",
"ACME:Notification.Create",
"ACME:OrgInfo.Read",
"ACME:Species.Read",
"ACME:OrgInfo.Read",
"ACME:Species.Read"
]
}
a change is submitted altering the response and the new response is as follows:
{
"Permissions" : [
"ACME:CommodityCode.Read",
"ACME:Notification.Create",
"ACME:Org.Species.Read",
"ACME:CommodityCode.Read",
"ACME:Notification.Create",
"ACME:OrgInfo.Read",
"ACME:Species.Read"
]
}
As you can see the 2 array values of
"ACME:OrgInfo.Read",
"ACME:Species.Read"
aren't present in the new response.
I need an assertion that these array values are NOT present to prove the update worked.
Before now, I've used an existence check (set result to false) - but this won't work for this - the the json is an array (name of Permissions) with some comma separated values - there's no name value pairing - the Outline tab in the Response appears as follows:
Because the values are in the array, rather than name/value pair - if the response is missing 2 values from the array - it just reduces the number of array values - using jsonpathfinder the jsonpath to any of the array items is as follows:
x.Permissions[x] - where x is the array position
Can anyone advise please?
Many thanks to all!
richie
Hello richie,
The json response looks to be a nice list to begin with which allows some collection comparisons.
This groovy code snippet has a couple different assertions based on your exact example. :)
Regards.
import groovy.json.*; def jsonBeforetxt = ''' { "Permissions" : [ "ACME:CommodityCode.Read", "ACME:Notification.Create", "ACME:Org.Species.Read", "ACME:CommodityCode.Read", "ACME:Notification.Create", "ACME:OrgInfo.Read", "ACME:Species.Read", "ACME:OrgInfo.Read", "ACME:Species.Read" ] } '''; def jsonAftertxt = ''' { "Permissions" : [ "ACME:CommodityCode.Read", "ACME:Notification.Create", "ACME:Org.Species.Read", "ACME:CommodityCode.Read", "ACME:Notification.Create", "ACME:OrgInfo.Read", "ACME:Species.Read" ] } '''; def jsonBeforeobj = new JsonSlurper().parseText(jsonBeforetxt); jsonBeforeobj.Permissions.each { item -> log.info 'item=' + item.toString(); }; log.info 'jsonBeforeobj.Permissions.size()= ' + jsonBeforeobj.Permissions.size(); log.info ' '; def jsonAfterobj = new JsonSlurper().parseText(jsonAftertxt); jsonAfterobj.Permissions.each { item -> log.info 'item=' + item.toString(); }; log.info 'jsonAfterobj.Permissions.size()= ' + jsonAfterobj.Permissions.size(); log.info ' '; permissionsIntersectList = jsonBeforeobj.Permissions.intersect(jsonAfterobj.Permissions); permissionsIntersectList.each { intr -> log.info 'intersect=' + intr; }; assert jsonBeforeobj.Permissions.size() != jsonAfterobj.Permissions.size(), "Before and After should be different"; assert jsonAfterobj.Permissions.size() == permissionsIntersectList.size(), "The After result should be equal to the Intersection of the Before and After"; assert jsonBeforeobj.Permissions.count { it.startsWith('ACME:OrgInfo.Read') } == 2, "Original should have 2 entries"; assert jsonAfterobj.Permissions.count { it.startsWith('ACME:OrgInfo.Read') } == 1, "Subsequent should have 1 entry"; assert jsonBeforeobj.Permissions.count { it.startsWith('ACME:Species.Read') } == 2, "Original should have 2 entries"; assert jsonAfterobj.Permissions.count { it.startsWith('ACME:Species.Read') } == 1, "Subsequent should have 1 entry"; log.info 'Test Step "' + testRunner.runContext.currentStep.name + '" done...';
