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 get json query result

get json query result

Description

Query a JSON document by JSONPath.

Arguments

• json

  JSON target document that the query runs against.

• jsonpath

  JSONPath query string

• variable

  (Optional) Variable to receive the returned query result.

Valid contexts

This action may be used within the following project items: test modules and user-defined actions.

Notes

• JSONPath of REST Assured, a Java framework for simplifying testing of REST based services and currently employed in TestArchitect, uses Groovy GPath expressions. A tutorial on GPath is beyond the scope of this help system. For more information on GPath, you can refer to this site.

• To insert an entire JSON document’s content into the json argument, all whitespaces must be removed manually to avoid automation failure.

  Tip:
  You can use various tools to compact JSON data to remove all whitepsaces. For example: JSON Editor Online.

• If the variable in argumentvariablehas not been declared, the action creates it as a global.

• This action supports the <ignore> modifier. If the string <ignore> is present as the value of any of the arguments, or any argument contains an expression that evaluates to <ignore>, the action is skipped during execution.

Applicable Built-In Settings

The following settings are applicable to this action: remove double quotes from cells.

Example

Given the following JSON document:

{
  "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": "fiction",
        "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
    }
  }
}

To insert the entire JSON document’s content above into the json argument, for example, use JSON Editor Online to remove all white spaces. The returned JSON document resembles the following.

{“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”:“fiction”,“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}}}

Action Lines

The following example retrieves the category of the first book element.

Result