Bill Kocik wrote:
Hi Folks -I'm hoping someone has come before me in trying to do this. I want to use Cucumber to acceptance-test my JSON output. So far all I can do is validate that the JSON is valid, with this step: Then /^I should get valid JSON$/ do assert_nothing_raised do ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(@response.body) end What I'd really like to do is be able to drill down into the JSON looking for the presence of certain elements in their correct places. For example, if my JSON is {"foo":{"bar":"baz"}} and parses out to {'foo' => {'bar' => 'baz'}} then I want to be able to test that ['foo']['bar'] gives me 'baz', or at least that ['foo']['bar'] exists. Unfortunately I'm not sure how to go about writing step definitions to do anything like this, since I haven't yet figured out a way to take a regular expression or string and inspect a hash with it. Anyone have any ideas? I could really use a brain-kick here. Thanks...
Well.. IIRC ActiveSupport::JSON.decode will return a ruby hash of the JSON, correct? So you should be able to make expectations on it just like a regular hash object.
json = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(@response.body) json['foo']['bar'].should == 'baz'. Does that help or am I missing something about your question? -Ben _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
