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mmoser18
Frequent Contributor
8 years ago

Contains assertion with option "Use Token as regular expression" not working

I reported a similar case a while ago but never got a response there - so again: The "Contains Assertion" with "Use token as regular expression" is not working!   E.g. I have a case where I need t...
  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    8 years ago

    I guess your response body is multiline? In this case <status>(OK|WARNING)</status> alone won't work because the regex needs to match the entire response body.

     

    Try this:

    (?s).*<status>(OK|WARNING)</status>.*

    (?s) is the flag that enables . to match line breaks, so that the pattern can match a multiline response.

     

     

    Alternatively, you can use the XPath Match assertion with this expression:

    matches(//status/text(), 'OK|WARNING')

    and expected result = true.

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mmoser18
Frequent Contributor

Ah - so this is actually not a "contains" but a "matches", i.e. one needs to write an expression that matches the *entire* message - not just a contained substring!

 

Later addition: indeed - now things work! Thanks!

 

You may want to provide a corresponding hint in the check-box's text (or at least its hover-text), because that's not exactly intuitive. Without the reg-exp checkbox being ticket one needs to provide a substring only that has to be contained somewhere in the response. With the check box ticked, it needs to match the entire response.

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HKosova
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
8 years ago

Glad you got it working!

 

mmoser18 wrote:

 

You may want to provide a corresponding hint in the check-box's text (or at least its hover-text), because that's not exactly intuitive. Without the reg-exp checkbox being ticket one needs to provide a substring only that has to be contained somewhere in the response. With the check box ticked, it needs to match the entire response.

That's a good idea! You can submit it as an enhancement request here. We also accept pull requests on GitHub if you are willing to contribute to the code base directly.

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    mmoser18
    Frequent Contributor
    8 years ago

    > You can submit...

    done.