How to parse JSON in javascript

[divergentor]

Hello, community.

I couldn't find a way to parse JSON in javascript. Could anybody help me?

I casual JS I can use JSON.parse. But it is invalid case for SOAPUI.

I know  that for grove it's a lot of examples with JsonSlurper, in my case I'm using only javascript.

My scenario:

I have REST request which returns we JSON.

To this request I have added Script Assertion in which I want to check value from JSON response and value from custom property.

Thanks in advance.

[HKosova]

Hi divergentor,

Have you considered using JSON assertions instead?

[divergentor]

Hello, Helen.

I thought about it as a first solution.

But I need customer property to be incremented.

I couldn't find any option to increment value from JSONpath.

That is why i decided that Script Assertion will be the best solution.

For now I did it by adding one additional Script step, in which I take customer property, increment it and write back.
Then I take it and compare as you show.

But I want to use javascript because it can simplify a lot of things.

[HKosova · Accepted solution]

SoapUI 5.3 uses an older version of the Rhino engine (1.7R2) that does not support JSON.parse(), but there are a couple of workarounds.

Option 1: use eval()

var str = '{"foo": "bar"}';
var obj = eval('(' + str + ')');
log.info(obj.foo);

Option 2: Update Rhino engine and use JSON.parse()

1. Download the latest version of Rhino from here:
   https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Rhino/Download_Rhino
2. In the <SoapUI>\lib folder, replace js-1.7R2.jar with js-<ver>.jar from the downloaded archive.
3. Restart SoapUI.

Now you can use JSON.parse():

var str = '{"foo": "bar"}';
var obj = JSON.parse(str);
log.info(obj.foo);

[rupert_anderson]

Nice one - great answer! 🙂 

[divergentor]

Hello.

Thank you for your answer. You save me a lot of time.
It's exactly what I need.

[ishan_07]

Hello,

You can simply use the JavaScript function called JSON.parse() to convert text into javascript object.

E.x.

var txt = '{"name":"John", "age":30, "city":"New York"}'
var obj = JSON.parse(txt);