ReadyAPI script assertion 'is not equal' to for JSON response
Greetings,
I would like to assert that certain values are not present in the response of my REST request.
I'm using ReadyAPI V2.8.0.
when sending the endpoint I'm expecting only values for the language='nl'. If the language is 'fr','de' or 'en' the testcase should fail.
I receive a lot of answers for that request, so using the Smart Assertions is not an option.
I've tried regular expression, but I don't seem to understand this.
I've seen in the documentation of SmartBear that I could use Script Assertions but I don't find snippets to get to that.
- * (Not) Contains is only looking for the node
- * JsonPath expression is only looking for the node
- * Equals is looking for a text (or property, but here it's not about properties) but those abreviations could be in a complete description and that is not what I need.
Does anyone have an idea please?
Response is Json and looks like this
You won't be able to test the endpoint as there is a strong security on it.
Thanks in advance
Kind Regards,
AboveAndBeyond
Hello,
I've looked into this with a developper. For our response we see that we actually have an array in an array. Therefore the code needed to be adapted a bit.
The response looks like this:
Tue Sep 22 16:30:58 CEST 2020: INFO: [[nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], [nl], ......etc..]
Assertion second part:
..... def checkForLanguage = "nl" def onlyExpectedLanguage = true language.each { element -> element.each { languageUnderTest -> { if (!languageUnderTest.equals(checkForLanguage)) { onlyExpectedLanguage = false log.info "Found unexpected language: ${languageUnderTest}" } } } } assert onlyExpectedLanguage, "Found a different language than ${checkForLanguage}"
In this case I was, with the previous code, asking to compare a string (def checkForLanguage = "nl") with an array ( def language = json.pdcData.concepts.description.language ) and thus of course the code passed each time because it was comparing something (array) with nothing (string).
So in order to be able to compare, I needed to loop over each array in that array.
Mostly the code is written like this:
def expected = true x.each{ y -> y.each{ variableName -> { //your statement here } } } assert expected, "error message here"
Thanks for your help anyways 😄
Kind regards,
AboveAndBeyond