rest-assured: How to create correct XML based request from POJO object, it works fine for Json based request

[mohan v]

Hi experts,

I have earlier used rest-assured for Json based request/response

I am pretty much impressed with it 

Now I am assigned a differet project, where xml based request is involved instead of Json. 

I am  not sure if rest-assured supports xml based request the same way as Json request.

Please correct me if I am wrong

For Json based request validation,

I used to create a Java Pojo object  and convert to Json object ,  used to do something like

Customer customer = new Customer("12390833", "firstname", "lastname",   "countrycode");

RequestSpecBuilder requestSpecBuilder = new RequestSpecBuilder();

ResponseSpecBuilder responseSpecBuilder = new ResponseSpecBuilder();

requestSpecBuilder.setContentType(ContentType.JSON);

requestSpecBuilder.setBody(customer);

given().log().all().spec(requestSpecBuilder.build()).expect().spec(responseSpecBuilder.build()).post("http:example.com/customers/");

This worked fine

==============

Problem:

Now for XML based request, I need to post the following XML body:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<!DOCTYPE oxip SYSTEM "oxip.dtd">

<oxip version="6.0">

<request>

        <reqUserAuth>

            <user>user1</user>

            <password>password1</password>

        </reqUserAuth>

        <reqCustomerAdd>

            <userName>12345</userName>

            <firstName>f</firstName>

            <lastName>O</lastName>

            <countryCode>GB</countryCode>

          </reqCustomerAdd>

    </request>

</oxip>

What I created is similar POJO object and  and used the following

requestSpecBuilder.setContentType(ContentType.XML);

requestSpecBuilder.setBody(customer);

given().log().all().spec(requestSpecBuilder.build()).expect().spec(responseSpecBuilder.build()).post("http:example.com/customers/");

But the the rest-assured creates the following request

Rest-assured generated request body

=================================

Request path: http:example.com/customers

Proxy: <none>

Request params: <none>

Query params: <none>

Form params: <none>

Path params: <none>

Multiparts: <none>

Headers: Content-Type=application/xml

Cookies: <none>

Body:

<oxip version="6.0">

  <request>

<reqCustomerAdd>

<userName>12345</userName>

<firstName>f</firstName>

<lastName>O</lastName>

<countryCode>GB</countryCode>

</reqCustomerAdd>

    <reqUserAuth>

<password>password123</password>

<user>user1</user>

    </reqUserAuth>

  </request>

</oxip>

However  It seems, the request is failing, because server  needs to have <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> , <!DOCTYPE oxip SYSTEM "oxip.dtd">

<oxip version="6.0">

 In short the server expects  request in the following format

Expected Request body: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<!DOCTYPE oxip SYSTEM "oxip.dtd">

<oxip version="6.0">

  <request>

<reqCustomerAdd>

<userName>12345</userName>

<firstName>f</firstName>

<lastName>O</lastName>

<countryCode>GB</countryCode>

</reqCustomerAdd>

    <reqUserAuth>

<password>password123</password>

<user>user1</user>

    </reqUserAuth>

  </request>

</oxip>

Question/Query/Problem

How to tell rest-assured requestSpecBuilder to  add <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>  <!DOCTYPE oxip SYSTEM "oxip.dtd"> ,   before XML body generated

from Pojo object from requestSpecBuilder

Thanks 

Mohan

[Johan Haleby]

REST Assured uses JAXB to serialize POJO's to XML. So you can google if you can find out how to do this with JAXB and then use the JAXBObjectMapperFactory to configure the JAXBContext accordingly. This is done by specifying a ObjectMapperConfig, for example:

given().config(RestAssured.config().objectMapperConfig(objectMapperConfig().jaxbObjectMapperFactory(new JAXBObjectMapperFactory(..));

Regards,

/Johan

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