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m_atty
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

How to test a JSON response with multiple objects with the same name

Hi,   I'm looking for some ideas on how we can test one of our new API's. The API in question will return a JSON response similar to the one outlined below:     { "testJSON" : [ { ...
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richie
Community Hero
7 years ago

Hi Matt,

 

Jsonpath will identify the different instances of the test1 attribute - so is it a case that there could be different number of test1 instances returned for different scenarios - or will the same number of test1 instances be returned whatever is submitted in the request?

 

there have been several posts recently about json responses returning multiple instances of an object, name attribute, array or whatever when the number of instances change depending on the scenario submitted - I'm wondering if these other posts might lead you to the correct solution?

 

cheers,

 

richie

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    m_atty
    Occasional Contributor
    7 years ago

    Hi Richie,

     

    We could have different number of test1 instances returned depending on the scenario. For example, we could request to see all of our customers in Lincolnshire which could return 100 instances of test1 - whereas requesting to see all of our customer in Scotland may return 300 instances. Hope that makes a bit more sense.

     

    I've had a look through the other posts that seemed to be linked to this request, but none seemed to answer this specific query. I'll have another scan through them now to check the most recent responses.

     

    Thanks,

    Matt