Java Object to Multipart

[Artur Sentsov]

Hi All,

I am able to pass Java Object into body() and it will automatically convert an object into a Json string. Is there a way to convert Java Object into multipart request?

Let me know.

Thanks

Artur

[Johan Haleby]

Sure, pass it into multipart(..).

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[Artur Sentsov]

Here is how my working test looks like now:
given()
    .headers(myHeaders)
    .multiPart("userID", "2345234")
    .multiPart("description", "this is general description")
    .multiPart("address", "address here")
    .multiPart("city", "city here")
    .multiPart("firstName", "first name")
    .multiPart("lastName", "last name")
    .multiPart("phone", "phone")
    .multiPart("fax", "fax")
    .multiPart("doctorName", "dname")
    .multiPart("doctorState", "dstate")
    .multiPart("doctorZip", "dzip")
    .multiPart("type", "some type")
    .multiPart("expirationDate", "10/10/2010")
    .multiPart("measurment1", "12.1")
    .multiPart("measurment2", "33.0")
    .multiPart("measurment3", "26")
    .multiPart("measurment4", "52")
    .multiPart("measurment5", "54")
    .multiPart("measurment6", "99")
    .multiPart("measurment7", "432")
    .multiPart("measurment8", "3"
    .multiPart("measurment9", "32.2")
    .multiPart("measurment10", "22.3")
    .multiPart("measurment11", "1.0")
    .multiPart("measurment12", "22")
    .multiPart("measurment13", "77")
    .multiPart("measurment14", "44")
    .multiPart("measurment15", "55")
    .multiPart("measurment16", "66")
    .multiPart("measurment17", "55")
    .multiPart("measurment18", "44")
    .log().everything()
.expect()
    .statusCode(201)
    .contentType(ContentType.JSON)
    .log().everything()
.when()
    .post("myURL");

Instead of doing all of those multiparts, i wanted to pass the object i have, where all of those variables are set already, and that object would get converted into multipart automatically.

[Artur Sentsov]

I want java object to convert into multipart when variable name in that object will become a content name and variable value in that object become content for that content name.

So after conversion rest assured will post to api something like following:
controlName=userID, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=2345234
controlName=description, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=this is general description
controlName=address, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=some address
controlName=city, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=somecity
controlName=firstName, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=Peter
controlName=lastName, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=White
controlName=phone, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=9161112222

On Friday, November 21, 2014 2:12:38 PM UTC-8, Artur Sentsov wrote:

[Johan Haleby]

If the object that you want to serialize to JSON is called "object" then you should be able to do like this:

given().multiPart("controlName", object, "application/json"). ..

See documentation.

Regards,

/Johan

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[Artur Sentsov]

When i do that i get:
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Infinite recursion (StackOverflowError)

[Johan Haleby]

Could you show use the java object you try to serialize?

[Artur Sentsov]

It is just an object with setter and getters.

RX rx = new RX();
rx.setUserId("123456");
rx.setDescription("rx Test");
rx.setAddress("345 H Street");
rx.setCity("Rancho Cordova");
rx.setFirstName("Peter");
rx.setLastName("White");
rx.setPhone("9167871212");

[Artur Sentsov]

I was able to fix that JsonMappingException

Now, when i do
multiPart("controlName", rx, "application/json")

Java object converts and I can post it to api, and in the log i see:
controlName=myControlName, mimeType=application/json, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content={"UserId":"123456","Description":"rx Test","Address":"123 H Street","City":"Rancho Cordova","FirstName":"peter","LastName":"White","Phone":"9167871212", "Address":"address", "city":"city"}

But what i am trying to achieve is that my java object convert to the following:       

controlName=userID, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=2345234
controlName=description, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=this is general description
controlName=address, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=some address
controlName=city, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=somecity
controlName=firstName, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=Peter
controlName=lastName, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=White
controlName=phone, mimeType=text/plain, charset=<none>, fileName=<none>, content=9161112222

[Johan Haleby]

Oh I see, you want to serialize each field to it's own control name!? REST Assured won't help you in that case. I suppose you could write your own filter that does this though. But why would you want to do this? Why not just send everything as form parameters or JSON?

[Artur Sentsov]

Yes, i want to serialize each field to it's own control name.
That is how the API i am currently testing works. There were some reason why developers made it like that, i just don't know those reasons. To me it would be much easier to test it using JSON.

I will try to figure out what i can do.