Response Headers error

[MartinSpamer]

If you retrieve HTTP response headers by name they are incorrectly enclosed in square brackets even though they are strings not lists/arrays.

e.g.

log.info messageExchange.responseHeaders["Server"]
log.info messageExchange.getResponseHeaders().get( "Server" )

Produces
[Apache-Coyote/1.1]
When it should produce
Apache-Coyote/1.1

[wjb]

I am seeing this too and can't get SoapUI to pass a test for given header for a given string value:

Script Input:

log.info "messageExchange.responseHeaders(Content-Type)="
log.info messageExchange.responseHeaders["Content-Type"]

log.info "messageExchange.getResponseHeaders().get(Content-Type)="
log.info messageExchange.getResponseHeaders().get("Content-Type")

assert messageExchange.responseHeaders["Content-Type"].equals("[image/jpeg]")

Output shows the brackets using either method:

• Mon Dec 21 14:22:16 MST 2015:INFO:messageExchange.responseHeaders(Content-Type)=
• Mon Dec 21 14:22:16 MST 2015:INFO:[image/jpeg]
• Mon Dec 21 14:22:16 MST 2015:INFO:messageExchange.getResponseHeaders().get(Content-Type)=
• Mon Dec 21 14:22:16 MST 2015:INFO:[image/jpeg]

The assert fails with this message:

assert messageExchange.responseHeaders["Content-Type"].equals("[image/jpeg]") | | | | | | [image/jpeg] false | [X-ORCHESTRATE-REQ-ID:[f9a4ddb0-a811-11e5-b81b-000c29cce2b5], Orchestrate-Destination-Host:[api.ctl-uc1-a.orchestrate.io], ETag:["2219eba0b33107f398c81e8808e2f5a2e6212a4e-gzip"], Vary:[Accept-Encoding], Transfer-Encoding:[chunked], Date:[Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:38:06 GMT], #status#:[HTTP/1.1 200 OK], Last-Modified:[Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:36:48 GMT], Content-Encoding:[gzip], Content-Location:[/v0/media/keyHagar/refs/2219eba0b33107f398c81e8808e2f5a2e6212a4e], Orchestrate-Source-Host:[api.ctl-va1-a.orchestrate.io], Connection:[keep-alive], Content-Type:[image/jpeg], Server:[nginx]] com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.teststeps.RestResponseMessageExchange@75b8d2ca

I also tried these asserts

assert messageExchange.responseHeaders["Content-Type"].equals("image/jpeg")

assert messageExchange.responseHeaders["Content-Type"].equals("/[image/jpeg/]")

assert messageExchange.responseHeaders["Content-Type"].equals("/[image//jpeg/]")

assert messageExchange.responseHeaders["Content-Type"].equals("\[image/jpeg\]")

All give a similar error messages.

How do I test a specific header for a specific value?

Testing for != null passes:

assert messageExchange.responseHeaders["Content-Type"] != null

but not testing for a specific string.

Thanks in advance!

[nmrao · Accepted solution]

That is because, type is ArrayList ([] denotes a list), not String.

Since it has one element in the list, 0th one should match.

Below should work:

assert messageExchange.responseHeaders["Content-Type"][0] == 'image/jpeg'

[nmrao]

Your case:
assert messageExchange.responseHeaders["Server"][0] == 'Apache-Coyote/1.1'

[wjb]

Yes that works!

Thanks for the prompt response!