Question

I’m making a rest api using resteasy, and testing it with rest-assured.

Let’s say that I have a class, message, with a property text.

@XmlRootElement
public class message {
  @XmlElement
  public String text;
}

The following test will try to post this object to a given url:

message msg = new message();
msg.text = "some message";

expect()
  .statusCode(200)
.given()
   .contentType("application/json")
   .body(msg)
.when()
  .post("/message");

The msg object is serialized to json and posted, but not in the way that I want – not in the way resteasy need, that is.

What’s posted:

{ "text": "some message" }

What’s working:

{ "message": { "text": "some message" } }

Does anyone have any clue on how I can make this work as expected?

Answer 1

You are probably using the built in Jettison JSON serializer with RestEasy. Jettison uses the XML-> Json convention (also known as BadgerFish). Replace Jettison with Jackson or GSon to get a JSon format compatible with RestAssured.