RestAssured vs HttpClient
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Shreejit Nair
Nov 21, 2017, 11:07:45 AM11/21/17
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Hi folks,
I was looking for some feedback on choosing Apache Http Client vs Rest Assured?
Does RestAssured provide all functionality that Apache Http client does?
Shreejit
Todd Bradley
Nov 21, 2017, 11:20:56 AM11/21/17
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RestAssured is built on top of Apache HTTP Client. They were designed to solve very different problems. If you need to write some kind of general purpose HTTP client application, using Apache directly might be better. But if you need to test a web service, using REST-assured will almost certainly be better.
Todd.
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Shreejit Nair
Nov 21, 2017, 11:58:28 AM11/21/17
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Thanks Todd,
My only intention is to do comprehensive functional REST services testing.
My only intention is to do comprehensive functional REST services testing.
On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 11:20:56 AM UTC-5, Todd Bradley wrote:
RestAssured is built on top of Apache HTTP Client. They were designed to solve very different problems. If you need to write some kind of general purpose HTTP client application, using Apache directly might be better. But if you need to test a web service, using REST-assured will almost certainly be better.Todd.
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Shreejit Nair <shreeji...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks,I was looking for some feedback on choosing Apache Http Client vs Rest Assured?Does RestAssured provide all functionality that Apache Http client does?Shreejit
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Todd Bradley
Nov 21, 2017, 12:19:35 PM11/21/17
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You will probably be happier writing your tests to the REST-assured layer. I've been very happy with the toolkit.
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Shreejit Nair
Nov 21, 2017, 12:34:29 PM11/21/17
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Great Todd,
I am already using RestAssured to run basic assertions on some public API's and stuff and it worked great.
I ran into SSL issues when running for our internal API's but was able to work around with them as well.
The negative feedback has come from the dev team who are like against using RestAssured (hamcrest features are not good, mixing data models to validate output is not well supported) and would want to stick with HttpClient.
Hence, for me I wanted to ensure that RestAssured has all the functionality that HttpClient exposes.
I am going to have a detailed session with them to understand where RestAssured has failed them in the past and come back and check if the said functionality is now supported in RestAssured.
I am already using RestAssured to run basic assertions on some public API's and stuff and it worked great.
I ran into SSL issues when running for our internal API's but was able to work around with them as well.
The negative feedback has come from the dev team who are like against using RestAssured (hamcrest features are not good, mixing data models to validate output is not well supported) and would want to stick with HttpClient.
Hence, for me I wanted to ensure that RestAssured has all the functionality that HttpClient exposes.
I am going to have a detailed session with them to understand where RestAssured has failed them in the past and come back and check if the said functionality is now supported in RestAssured.
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