CODEWITHSUNDEEP
groovyspock
ant2009
ant2009

Reputation: 22486

Using spock to test a complicated JSON string condition is never satisified

org.spockframework:spock-core:0.7-groovy-2.0
Gradle 1.12
Groovy 1.8.6

Hello,

I have a function that will return a JSON string. And I want to test that my function correctly creates the JSON format. However, I am having a problem with maybe some escape characters as the test always fails.

This is the correct JSON format I am expecting and testing against:

{"function":"verifyEmail","parameters":[{"email_pwd":"password","session_id":"S1234","snapz_id":"T1234","email":"[email protected]","access_token":"abcd"}]}

However, setting up the condition is proving difficult because of the double quotes and the [ ] characters. I have tried to escape them.

This is the function:

def 'Parse the string to create JSON object'() {
    setup:
    def requestFactory = new RequestFactory();
    def snapzJSON = requestFactory.createWSRequest(FunctionReq.VERIFY_EMAIL, accessToken, sessionId, snapzId, email, emailPwd)

    expect: 'Correctly formats JSON string'
    System.out.println("SPOCK TEST: " + snapzJSON.createJSONRequest())
    snapzJSON.createJSONRequest()  == '{\"function\":\"verifyEmail\",\"parameters\":\\[{\"email_pwd\":\"password\",\"session_id\":\"S1234\",\"snapz_id\":\"T1234\",\"email\":\"[email protected]\",\"access_token\":\"abcd\"}\\]}'        
}

And this is the result:

Condition not satisfied:

snapzJSON.createJSONRequest()  == '{\"function\":\"verifyEmail\",\"parameters\":\\[{\"email_pwd\":\"password\",\"session_id\":\"S1234\",\"snapz_id\":\"T1234\",\"email\":\"[email protected]\",\"access_token\":\"abcd\"}\\]}'
|         |                    |
|         |                    false
|         [parameters:[[session_id:S1234, snapz_id:T1234, email:[email protected], email_pwd:password, access_token:abcd]], function:verifyEmail]
abcd S1234 T1234 [email protected] password

Is there an easier way of doing this?

Many thanks for any suggestions,

Some additional output from test results:

jsonObject: {"parameters":[{"session_id":"S1234","snapz_id":"T1234","email":"[email protected]","email_pwd":"password","access_token":"abcd"}],"function":"verifyEmail"}
SPOCK TEST: [parameters:[[session_id:S1234, snapz_id:T1234, email:[email protected], email_pwd:password, access_token:abcd]], function:verifyEmail]

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3185

Answers (1)

Opal
Opal

Reputation: 84786

In this line:

snapzJSON.createJSONRequest()  == '{\"function\":\"verifyEmail\",\"parameters\":\\[{\"email_pwd\":\"password\",\"session_id\":\"S1234\",\"snapz_id\":\"T1234\",\"email\":\"[email protected]\",\"access_token\":\"abcd\"}\\]}'

You're comparing String with Map. You need to parse the JSON string on the right (using JsonSlurper) and the compare the values. There's also no need to esacpe " when single quote used '.

You can also serialize left side (snapzJSON.createJSONRequest() to string using JsonOutput) and then compare.

It's much better to compare maps.

Upvotes: 3

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