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austino
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11 years ago

Rest Response - How Do I Change A Rest Response to XPATH?

On my project there are 2 QA's. One updated to 5.1.2, and I stayed on 4.6.4. We have just under 1000 assertions using XPATH for REST services, however, in 5.1.2, the response is only coming back as JS...
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11 years ago
Hi,

There has been a change after 4.6.4 where a namespace was attached to the XML response. Since a namespace doesn't matter if you're getting a JSON response, it was no longer used in 5.0.0, or rather a default namespace was attached to every request's XML form. If your XPATH had a reference to a dynamic namespace, it would have required an update of the assertions to continue using XPATH. But now the JSONPath assertions are available in 5.1.2.

Regards,

Giscard
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