Testing a JSON API
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Eric Sorenson
Oct 25, 2011, 4:00:43 PM10/25/11
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I'm putting together a JSON API which may or may not be built with
Rails. I'd like to be able to verify that the JSON API is behaving as
expected by testing it from a test client that only communicates via
HTTP.
For example, the test client will send a request to a given URL on the
test server, and then verify that the response is a JSON string equal
to what is expected by the specs. The response may also be an HTTP
response code such as a 401.
I'm currently running tests with QUnit and jQuery.ajax. It works, but
I'm wondering if there's a better option. Has anyone else done
something like this?
Thanks!
Rails. I'd like to be able to verify that the JSON API is behaving as
expected by testing it from a test client that only communicates via
HTTP.
For example, the test client will send a request to a given URL on the
test server, and then verify that the response is a JSON string equal
to what is expected by the specs. The response may also be an HTTP
response code such as a 401.
I'm currently running tests with QUnit and jQuery.ajax. It works, but
I'm wondering if there's a better option. Has anyone else done
something like this?
Thanks!
Bradley Grzesiak
Oct 25, 2011, 4:09:13 PM10/25/11
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You can absolutely use Capybara to test any HTTP service. The trick is to make sure that Capybara doesn't wrap your JSON in an HTML skeleton. I think you need to ask for the source not the body...
See the "Calling remote servers" section of https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/
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Nicholas Klick
Oct 25, 2011, 4:09:48 PM10/25/11
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If you decide to use Ruby for the server side, I would recommend this book, unless you have it already, which covers Ruby and JSON API's pretty thoroughly:
I'm pretty sure the entire book is TDD. I have a copy if you want to borrow it.
Nicholas
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Eric Sorenson <eric.s...@dubharmonic.com> wrote:
Matthew Margolis
Oct 25, 2011, 9:57:46 PM10/25/11
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I don't have any experience using it but
https://github.com/collectiveidea/json_spec looks interesting.
https://github.com/collectiveidea/json_spec looks interesting.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Eric Sorenson
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