REST Assured(RA) is a framework built on Java to test the REST services. It supports any HTTP method but has explicit support for GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, PATCH and includes specifying & validating like Headers, Cookies etc.
For validating and querying the Webservice responses, it has couple of libraries 'JsonPath' and 'XMLPath' for parsing Json and XML responses accordingly.
Even-though we know that, we have to use these libraries but most of the times we get into situations where we forget or we are not sure of the actual syntax. Here are list of few scenarios and it's JsonPath syntax (XMLPath syntax are almost similar) for your reference.
All the Jsonpath examples in this post, use the following Json:
{
"store":{
"book":[
{
"category":"reference",
"author":"Nigel Rees",
"title":"Sayings of the Century",
"price":8.95
},
{
"category":"fiction",
"author":"Evelyn Waugh",
"title":"Sword of Honour",
"price":12.99
},
{
"category":"horror",
"author":"Herman Melville",
"title":"Moby Dick",
"isbn":"0-553-21311-3",
"price":8.99
},
{
"category":"fiction",
"author":"J. R. R. Tolkien",
"title":"The Lord of the Rings",
"isbn":"0-395-19395-8",
"price":22.99
}
],
"bicycle":{
"color":"red",
"price":19.95
}
},
"city":"Bangalore"
}
Following examples let you know,how to effectively use the JsonPath to extract the required values from the RESTful json in different scenarios:
