Problem stubbing HTTParty request response body

[AngelLeroy]

Hi,

I am attempting to stub a get request with HTTParty, but it's not working as I would expect.

citydeal_response = HTTParty.get "/citydeal/#{citydeal_id}" #full url provided with base_uri

Later on I'm calling this response as follows:

citydeal_response.first["merchantId"]

This works when testing against live data, but in my spec tests, it fails, likely because I can only pass a string in the body of the stub_request return:      

Live inspect:

#<HTTParty::Response:0x7f8ed149a450 parsed_response=[{\"merchantId\"=>119074}] ...

Live parsed response:

[{"dealId"=>119074}]

Test inspect:

#<HTTParty::Response:0x7fbd39ddbca8 parsed_response="[{\"merchantId\":856742}]" ...

Test parsed response:

[{"merchantId":856742}]

Current stub_request (not stubbing a return for the entire body because it's huge and I'm only working with this one part):

stub_request(:get, @get_citydeal_url).to_return(:status => 200, :body => [{"merchantId"=>856742}].to_json, :headers => {})

If I use to_json or wrap the body in '', I get IndexError: string not matched - which makes sense, as .first for this string is "[". If I don't include these, and pass an array, the error is NoMethodError: undefined method `strip' for [{"merchantId"=>856742}]:Array

What am I doing wrong here? Hopefully it's simple, because I'm stumped. Also, let me know if I can provide any additional detail. Thanks.

[Bartosz Blimke]

Have a look at the headers returned from live api. Probably it's returning :content_type => 'application/json' header so HTTParty knows how to parse the response to json. Your stubbed response doesn't declare this header so HTTParty treats response as a string.

Bartosz

2013/11/7 AngelLeroy <alga...@gmail.com>

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[AngelLeroy]

I knew it was a stupid mistake. Tests are working now. Thanks!

[Mark Mohr]

Thanks for this answer, Bartosz.  Been beating me head against the wall all day.