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trivenim
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10 years ago
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SoapUI 5.2.1-REST Service's JSON response not displayed in JSON view

Hi,

 

When I execute REST service in Soap UI 5.2.1 Open source, the respective JSON response is not displayed in JSON view and instead below message is displayed.

 

"The content you are trying to view cannot be viewed as JSON".

 

Please suggest me if I have to change SoapUI settings to see JSON response in JOSON view

 

Please find below other views that I see.

 

XML View:

 

<data contentType="text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1" contentLength="140"><![CDATA[{"status":{"resultCod​e":0,"developerMessage":"Hint question retrived successfully [Time Taken: 1103 millisec]"},"data":{"hintQuestion":"7"}}]]></data>

 

HTML View:

 

{"status":{"resultCode":0,"developerMessage":"Hint question retrived successfully [Time Taken: 1103 millisec]"},"data":{"hintQuestion":"7"}}

 

 

Raw view:

 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 20:57:50 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1
X-Powered-By: Servlet/2.5 JSP/2.1
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=RF4JWBHpJvGVGQmnGqDlyTP2121pBQgVpn2sf8P​tQJsDBFT5TYMf!1112697720; path=/; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: sto-id-16671=GCJIKIMAEBBP; Expires=Mon, 09-Nov-2015 21:23:10 GMT; Path=/
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Set-Cookie: nwp_1-47873-%3FVFSIN_PUB%3Fsg_nhlweb_qa1_8080=BPJG​KIMAJABP; Expires=Mon, 09-Nov-2015 21:32:10 GMT; Path=/

{"status":{"resultCode":0,"developerMessage":"Hint question retrived successfully [Time Taken: 1103 millisec]"},"data":{"hintQuestion":"7"}}

 

  • TanyaYatskovska's avatar
    TanyaYatskovska
    12 years ago

    Hi Dezza,


     


    You'll need to call the Run Code Snippet operation and specify there the following:




     Runner.CallMethod("Unit1.theTest", Runner.CallMethod("Unit1.generateRef"), Runner.CallMethod("Unit1.generateMagicNumber"))


     


     *Unit1 is the name of the unit with your script files.


      


     Not a very elegant way, but it should work, though.


      

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  • kondasamy's avatar
    kondasamy
    Regular Contributor
    10 years ago
    I'm not sure about the exact cause; but, I guess the issue is with the response Content-Type which holds "text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1". Hence, SoapUI doesn't detects in the JSON response viewer.I just tried with one of my REST service and SoapUI displayed perfect JSON view with the Content-Type - application/json
     
     
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 03:37:56 GMT
Expires: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 03:37:56 GMT
    When I tried to reproduce your scenario, with response Content-Type as "text/plain", the JSON response viewer displays "The content you are trying to view cannot be viewed as JSON".
     
    As suggested by nmrao, please check with the service provider to match the Content-Type that suits with Front-end application.
     
    Thanks,
    Samy
     
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    • trivenim's avatar
      trivenim
      Occasional Contributor
      10 years ago
      Hi Kondasamy,
       
      Thank you so much for your inputs:)
      Yes, clearly issue is with content-Type. With your reply, that got confirmed as you were able to see JSON view for your REST services.
       
      I approached my dev team to make necessary code changes to solve this issue on our end. 
    • IBaxter's avatar
      IBaxter
      Occasional Contributor
      10 years ago
      I just got the same problem.
      Content-Type: application/Json
      and I was able to see my response in json viewer with no problem.
      But Ready API 1.5 gave me 'The content you are trying to view cannot be viewed as JSON'
      • kondasamy's avatar
        kondasamy
        Regular Contributor
        10 years ago
        If possible, could you please share the raw response or atleast a screenshot covering the response's header part.
         
        Thanks,
        Samy
  • nmrao's avatar
    nmrao
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    10 years ago
    I believe, you should check with the service provider/developer for the supported formats i.e., xml/json
    • trivenim's avatar
      trivenim
      Occasional Contributor
      10 years ago
      Hi nmrao,
       
      Thanks for your valuable reply. Got confirmation from developer that supported format is JSON.