Mismatch of url patch with query string

[Mabz Hussain]

I'm sending a request from SOAPUI to a wiremock server, and I'm attempting to match the url's.

This is the request that is being sent out: /user/test/?and=query

I've written the following regular expression:

stubFor(post(urlPathMatching("/user/test/\\?(and)\\=([a-z]*)"))

The problem is when I try to match the "?" when I use one backslash to capture the literal character, I get an error in Java saying:

"Illegal Escape Character"

What I tried to do to resolve the problem: I know the solution is to use the second backslash to capture the "?" like this: "\?", but when I send the request I get an error saying the urls don't match because this is the request that is matched against the original one being sent from soap ui:

/user/test/\?(and)\=([a-z]*) 

Second attempt I've tried to use the dot notation to represent the "?" and "=" symbol. I've tested this on a regular expression tester and it checks out, but, It's still saying the url's dont match on soap ui.

Regular expression: stubFor(post(urlPathMatching("/user/test/.*(and).*([a-z]*)")).atPriority(1)

mismatched url: /user/test/.*(and).*([a-z]*)







Can someone please help?

[Tom Akehurst]

One observation - you're using urlPathMatching with a path + query, which will not work under any circumstances. urlMatching will attempt to match path and query.

However, given that regexes are a bit messy when there's a query string involved, you might find it easier to use separate path and query parameter matching e.g.

stubFor(post(urlPathEqualTo("/user/test"))

  .withQueryParam("and", matching("([a-z]*)"))

[Mabz Hussain]

Thanks Tom!