Request spec for XML API

[josep...@gmail.com]

Hi.

I need to create an API that will accept XML. How can I specify an XML body in a request spec? I have tried:

data = (xml as a string)

post '/api/path', env: { 'RAW_POST_BODY' => data, 'Content-Type' => 'text/xml' }

and then I can access the body as request.body.read but the values do not appear in the params. Obviously, I could pass the parameters with 'params: { key: value, ... }' but I'd prefer to be able to test with samples of the body as they are going to be sent.

Regards,

Joe

[Phil Pirozhkov]

You may want to check this out https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/v/4-0/docs/request-specs/request-spec#providing-json-data

So I guess it should be:

```

post "/api/path", params: data, headers: { "CONTENT_TYPE" => "text/xml" }
```

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[Joseph Haig]

Thanks! That worked perfectly. I had seen that but I didn't notice that the parameters in that example were a JSON string, so I thought it was still being defined as a hash.

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