The pain of JSON API testing

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Post by jkreeftmeijer » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 4:11 PM UTC

The pain of JSON API testing
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Re: The pain of JSON API testing

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Post by tomblomfield » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

I'm not really sure where the idea that JSON APIs are hard to test came from?

They're actually really simple to test because the returned data is in a machine-readable format - JSON. Simply parse the JSON into a data structure that your language understands (hash, array?), and make assertions about the content. The end.

Re: The pain of JSON API testing

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Post by DanielRibeiro » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 5:06 PM UTC

tomblomfield wrote: post #2

I'm not really sure where the idea that JSON APIs are hard to test came from? They're actually really simple to test because the returned data is in a machine-readable format - JSON. Simply parse the JSON into a data structure that your language understands (hash, array?), and make assertions about the content. The end.

I recommend using Hashie::Mash[1] and turn all those hashes into objects, just like those you get when you parse the json in Javascript. This is how ruby's twitter[2] client handles json data.

[1] https://github.com/intridea/hashie

[2] http://twitter.rubyforge.org/

Re: The pain of JSON API testing

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Post by jkreeftmeijer » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 5:09 PM UTC

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #3

tomblomfield wrote: post #2

I'm not really sure where the idea that JSON APIs are hard to test came from? They're actually really simple to test because the returned data is in a machine-readable format - JSON. Simply parse the JSON into a data structure that your language understands (hash, array?), and make assertions about the content. The end.

I recommend using Hashie::Mash[1] and turn all those hashes into objects, just like those you get when you parse the json in Javascript. This is how ruby's twitter[2] client handles json data. [1] https://github.com/intridea/hashie [2] http://twitter.rubyforge.org/

Good idea, Daniel. Hashr is a tip too: https://github.com/svenfuchs/hashr :)

Re: The pain of JSON API testing

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 5:09 PM UTC

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #3

tomblomfield wrote: post #2

I'm not really sure where the idea that JSON APIs are hard to test came from? They're actually really simple to test because the returned data is in a machine-readable format - JSON. Simply parse the JSON into a data structure that your language understands (hash, array?), and make assertions about the content. The end.

I recommend using Hashie::Mash[1] and turn all those hashes into objects, just like those you get when you parse the json in Javascript. This is how ruby's twitter[2] client handles json data. [1] https://github.com/intridea/hashie [2] http://twitter.rubyforge.org/

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