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rajs2020
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5 years ago
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Is there an easy way to access parts of an API response in a groovy script?

This is a follow up to my old question - https://community.smartbear.com/t5/API-Functional-Security-Testing/ReadyAPI-How-to-access-the-entire-request-and-response-from-a/m-p/212769. In a groovy scrip...
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rajs2020
Frequent Contributor
5 years ago

nmrao - Thanks, I saw your solution also now. It works, but I have some questions.

1 - Why do you use closures here instead of regular functions?
2 - How do we reuse the code in other suites also instead of repeating the code?

PS - I modified your solution as follows.

/*
Sample response:
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
{"healthy": true}
*/


//The test step which calls the API.
def stepName = 'CallApi'

assert getHeader(stepName, 'Content-Type') == 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
assert getJson(stepName).healthy == true


//Utility functions:
def getStepResponse(stepName){
	context.testCase.testSteps[stepName].httpRequest.response
}

def getJson(stepName){
	new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText(getStepResponse(stepName).responseContent)
}

def getHeader(stepName, header){
	getStepResponse(stepName).responseHeaders[header].first()
}